Pimp My Blog!

Okay guys, you have to admit it, my blog’s design stinks! I just opened this account and grabbed what Blogger offered me. I worried more about the tools like RSS, email subscriptions, content, links to useful resources etc. I know nothing about blog skins and how to work them, so I left it pretty much alone. But I need to project an image here, and I want my readers to enjoy hanging around.

So I beg you, PIMP MY BLOG!

Is there such thing? I love that program on TV, Pimp My Ride and I see how they transform a piece of junk car and make look awesome and cool. Can someone have compasion on me and help me out? Listen, I know a little HTML and can manage good with websites but I don’t get this blog design thing. I read the 50 ways to become a better designer and it helped me some until the designers started with their design lingo that I haven’t learn yet. I also found this great tutorial from Tutorials by Jennifer at photoshopsupport dot com which I intend to dig in since I bought PhotoShop Elements 4 a couple of months ago along with the book The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers but haven’t got the time to work with it. I also found this great site with ready-made templates. Don’t get me wrong, I love to research and to learn new things everyday but I don’t have much time, you know? Maybe some creative designer will like to take a challenge, heck maybe a few would and we can post a few layouts of their work and do a poll or something. I’m just rambling here, my mind goes faster than my fingers. What is CSS? I know I need to know about this in order to create something unique.

I love the feel of my 360 degree site at Yahoo! If I can duplicate something like that it would be great. Can I use the Page View and copy the source? I know that 360 degree Yahoo! Have features that my blog doesn’t support but I just love it! Anyway what do you think? Any suggestions, ideas, critiques? I have pretty thick skin.

Social Signal Blogging Workshop

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NBC and YouTube Tie Up
In a terrific reversal of its prior stance towards the site, NBC is set to run promos on YouTube, according to AP. NBC will upload to YouTube promotional clips for its new and returning series, as well as late-night programs....

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Fear of Losing Control Unites Us All
Dateline: London, UK Yesterday was one of those rare super enlightening days that comes along once every year or two. I spent a full day in Paris with my colleagues from Europe who specialize in online communications. It felt like...

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MySpace Research Project Update

It has been about a week since we started this research and we have a few comments and ideas on how to best utilize the site for promoting our products or services. The last comment was left by Lee Tamargo, spanish author who have been using the site to connect to readers. His challenge has been the language since MySpace is not available in Spanish yet, but I don't doubt that that will be the next step for them since Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world. Talks about their European expansion is already going around.

In observing the site and looking at succesful people in MySpace I noticed how they include multiple ways for the people to connect to them. Usually their websites URL is posted with their profiles along with any eZines they offer, and on the bulletin they keep their friends updated of any special events, promotions, contests or appeareances. All this make a combination for success. On their website they also include their MySpace link.

We have been fortunate here at Guerrilla Insight to have Niambi, a very successful author who is learning how to get the best of MySpace helping us with her experience. She is contributing to this blog as well as our forum where we have been talking about marketing since April. More and more people are finding their way to the forum and helping with the research. Even Search Engine Lowdown has done part of the research on a different angle.

I think we can make it work if we concentrate on developing ways to communicate and connect to our audience. Selling will be a hard thing to do, what we need to do is let our audience get to know us and feel comfortable enough to go the next step and visit our websites, join our mailing lists for valuable information, to be notified of special events, contests, discounts etc. To give them a chance to get to know others with similar taste an become friends as well. I believe that is the key here. It's about creating community, a community of authors and readers.

The music section of the site is a already a hit,with bands counting with thousands of friends on their lists. The have cool pages with lost of pictures, videos, audio clips and more. Perhaps that is something we could also include in our space, an audio of our books or part of it, maybe a special message to our visitors and friends. A daily or weekly inspirational audio message. There is a Book Section available now which we will need to explore. This is coming to me as I write this, there is so much we could do. Tell me what you think, is there any other ways in which you see authors connecting to readers on MySpace?

Affiliate Manager Meets Article Marketing

Affiliate Manager Meets Article Marketing
Next week I’m going to run a theme of posts and perhaps even a new article on “Affiliate Marketing” along with where the intersection of *Affiliate Program Management* meets with *Article Marketing*. This will all be tied along in a theme to introduce EzineArticles expert author Anik Singal as he launches his new training course, “The [...]

Alexandria K. Brown?s Marketing & Motivation Mastermind
Special Teleclass Invitation: Join me for Alexandria K. Brown’s (Yes, the EzineQueen) MARKETING & MOTIVATION MASTERMIND Meeting on TUESDAY, June 20, 2006, 8:00pm Eastern. Alexandria K. Brown and I will be doing LIVE Ezine Makeovers for her Mastermind members. If you’d like your ezine to get read more often, get more response, and SELL more of [...]

New Article Email Alerts
Every day at 2pm CST USA time, emails are released to the 222 categories of EzineArticles for over 10k+ permission-based email members (presumably publishers looking for articles or authors looking for new article topic ideas) who signed up from our subscription page. This week, we rolled out a new feature that extends invitations to our readership [...]

Article Writing Cadence
Today, I biked 56 miles non-stop as part of a half-ironman triathlon relay team. I don’t know my official time yet, but my GPS watch said a little over 3 hours. It was my fastest time ever! …well, actually, it was the first and only time I’ve ever gone 56 miles without stopping as my new bike [...]

Professional Writers vs. Article Writing and Marketing
Recently Star Lawrence wrote a negative review of EzineArticles.com in her article, “Want Tens of Thousands of Content-Hungry Publishers Feeding on You? EzineArticles Platinum author Soni Pitts (also giving a nod to her WriteLivelihood lens) countered with this letter to Ms. Lawrence: Ms. Lawrence - All wet? Nah, just a little damp here and there. :-D I think the [...]

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25 To Do Lists Services

25 To Do Lists Services
If you’re as disorganized as I can be at my worst you might find Solution Watch’s post titled 25 To Do Lists to Stay Productive a helpful one. Yes it’s a list of 25 ‘to do list’ services to help you get organized. I’ve been meaning to find a good to do list for a while [...]

Blogger Gets Yahoo Internship
Congratulations to PaulStamatiou.com for landing a ‘Blogger Internship’ at Yahoo - another blogger finding indirect opportunities opening up as a result of their blogging activities. I’m predicting that the second half of 2006 that we’ll see a lot more of this type of thing. found via blogHelper

TalkShoe to Pay Podcasters to Host Shows
Guillaume Du Guardier, my colleague in France, keeps coming up with great stuff. I can't wait for him to teach me all kinds of new tricks when I visit Paris next week. His latest find is TalkShoe. Basically, TalkeShoe is...

Please Share the RSS Marketing Survey

Please help us make the RSS Marketing Survey as comprehensive as possible. All participants get the full survey report, and all the key data will be shared publicly.

1. Please take a few minutes and participate by clicking here.

2. Please share this URL (http://rsspoll.marketingstudies.net) with as many people as you can. Post it on your blog, send it out in your newsletter, mention it to your RSS peers ... :)

Really, the more data we get, the better results we'll be able to provide to you.

The goal of the survey is to research the RSS marketing landscape, collect top RSS marketing case studies and best practices, and find which key factors make successful RSS strategies successful.

BTW - the survey is getting alot of support from many marketers, such as Christopher Knight, RSS Ray, Lee Odden and may others (full list will be published after I return from Chicago).

And today we've just been covered by MarketingSherpa as well:
"If you've tested offering RSS and have any results to share, author/researcher Rok Hrastnik is seeking your input for the second edition of his report on the topic. We like Rok -- he's a genuine and enthusiastic researcher on the topic and worth supporting so the whole community can learn together."

Great thanks to everyone that's helping make the survey a success!

How Can RSS Power Your Internet Marketing and Publishing? Find out more in the most comprehensive and best guide on RSS for marketers, as acclaimed by leading RSS experts, developers, marketers and publishers. Click here and get the step-by-step guide to taking full marketing advantage of RSS.

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Review: FeedRinse filters RSS feeds - Yahoo! News A review of FeedRinse from AP. (tags: Feedrinse RSS) Business 2.0: 50 People who matter I love how #1 is "You" - the consumer as creator. (tags: socialmedia Web2.0) Goodnight Burbank Another...

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How to Optimize a WordPress Blog for SEO

How to Optimize a WordPress Blog for SEO
Thanks to Jeremy for letting me know about this excellent post on Optimizing WordPress for SEO. It’s amazing what a few simple tweaks will do to your search engine ranking. Once you’ve read it you might also be interested in my own post on SEO for blogs.

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BBC Radio Hosts a Party in Second Life

BBC Radio Hosts a Party in Second Life
Here's more evidence that Second Life is becoming a valuable way for organizations to build a bond with influential consumers. BBC Radio 1 is hosting a virtual music festival experience in the game. It's an extension of an existing live...

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Nokia Gives You Podcasts to Go
Nokia has launched a program that ports podcasts to Nokia N91 cell phones. The free application can be downloaded at www.nokia.com/podcasting. The application, despite recent complaints, still does not support the uploading of podcasts....

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Interview Requests For June 21st

Interview Requests For June 21st
This Week:

• Women's Publication Seeks Foreign Ladies Ages 18 - 35
• Your Day Off--Interesting Hobbies For National Women's Mag

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MySpace Research Project

A long discussion about using MySpace as advertising has been part of Guerrilla Marketers @ Lulu Forum since April. Jumping onboard last week was Adam Schultz from Search Engine Lowdown.
Adam has been analyzing how to use MySpace as a tool for marketing for a while after he saw the potential with the success of the X-Man movie release who created a MySpace for its promotion. But what caught my attention was his entry on another author, Niambi, who has successfully created her MySpace and attracted over a thousand people to it. I would love to have her come here and share some of her experience with the site.

Since we deal with authors in our site we are exploring the possibilities to use this medium to create awareness for our books and connect to our readers. I just found out today about a new area in MySpace Books.

We have one author, Alan Baxter, who is using the medium to network with people who enjoy Dark Fantasy Fiction and getting some friends already reading his book and commenting on his space. He also uses it to drive people to his regularly updated blog.

The jury is out, the market potential is there, I guess it will be a matter of learning how to make it work and hopefully we’ll find a way right here. If we put our heads together and share our experiences I’m sure we’ll get somewhere.

So here is the deal for this research; for those authors who have a MySpace and would like to participate of this research I’ll welcome your ideas and experiences. Anything at all that you can think of, we'll look into it and see if we can put it to the test and share the results here. Make an entry on your blog and email me the link post to share here at Guerrilla Insight. We'll be storming some ideas and sharing experiences until the end of the month.

Please Share the RSS Marketing Survey

Please Share the RSS Marketing Survey

Please help us make the RSS Marketing Survey as comprehensive as possible. All participants get the full survey report, and all the key data will be shared publicly.

1. Please take a few minutes and participate by clicking here.

2. Please share this URL (http://rsspoll.marketingstudies.net) with as many people as you can. Post it on your blog, send it out in your newsletter, mention it to your RSS peers ... :)

Really, the more data we get, the better results we'll be able to provide to you.

The goal of the survey is to research the RSS marketing landscape, collect top RSS marketing case studies and best practices, and find which key factors make successful RSS strategies successful.

BTW - the survey is getting alot of support from many marketers, such as Christopher Knight, RSS Ray, Lee Odden and may others (full list will be published after I return from Chicago).

And today we've just been covered by MarketingSherpa as well:
"If you've tested offering RSS and have any results to share, author/researcher Rok Hrastnik is seeking your input for the second edition of his report on the topic. We like Rok -- he's a genuine and enthusiastic researcher on the topic and worth supporting so the whole community can learn together."

Great thanks to everyone that's helping make the survey a success!

How Can RSS Power Your Internet Marketing and Publishing? Find out more in the most comprehensive and best guide on RSS for marketers, as acclaimed by leading RSS experts, developers, marketers and publishers. Click here and get the step-by-step guide to taking full marketing advantage of RSS.

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Content can make or break a website. The power of the written word has been witnessed many a time. Products have become success stories, resumes trans ..

A New Breed of Branded RSS Reader: Inclue!

Inclue!, just released a couple of days ago, is a new breed of mass-market branded RSS Reader ... which integrates into Outlook (to consume RSS content), as well as Internet Explorer and FireFox (to directly subscribe to RSS feeds while surfing).

But why a new breed of branded Reader?

a] It integrates with Outlook, which most other branded RSS Readers don't (usually either web-based or desktop applications)

b] Publishers can create their own branded version (unfortunatelly only with their own feeds right now) in 5 minutes, and then distribute it via their Inclue! landing page, which is also automatically generated.

c] Publishers that sign-up for their affiliate program receive a commission when end-users decide to upgrade their Reader to the premium version.

d] The Include! Reader is based on viral methods to further spread your RSS feeds and help you get new subscribers, for example using the FeedBurner Flare tool to entice your RSS subscribers to get your branded Inclue! Reader. Similar links are also displayed when a user forwards an RSS feed item to his friends via Inclue!

To see how it works, take a look at my quick version (just a demo, haven't included all the feeds, a decent description and so on).

Inclue! also does a great job of promoting RSS to end-users, giving them concrete benefits of how RSS will actually help them ... from tracking eBay auctions to getting job notifications. Just take a look at the link above.

Essentially, the Reader is targeted at new RSS users, giving them simple functions, especially with their ease of subscribing to feeds with just one click.

Now I'm just waiting for them to add visual branding possibilities ... :)

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Publisher's Desk For June 14th

Publisher's Desk For June 14th
~New Writer's Guidelines added to WritersWeekly.com~ Naples Dog Magazine - Pays $25-$250 http://forums.writersweekly.com/viewtopic.php?t=6365 SouthernNewMexico.com - Pays $25-$50 http://forums.writersweekly.com/viewtopic.php?t=6364 ~Next 24-Hour Short Story Contest~ The Summer 24-Hour Short Story Contest is now open for entrants. Start time for the Summer 2006 24-Hour Short Story Contest will be at 12:00 p.m. (noon) central time on Saturday, July 22, 2006! Participation is limited to 500 entrants. Contests usually fill up, so don't delay if you want to participate! You can see the list of prizes (first prize is $300, second is $250 and third is $200 - plus 82 other prizes!) and sign up here: http://www.writersweekly.com/misc/contest.html ~NEW CLASSES START JULY 3RD!~ + **NEW** How To Write A Cookbook And Sell It! - Remember, Write and Publish Your Life Story by Angela Hoy - Marketing Boot Camp For Freelance Writers - Cash in on Newsletter Writing and Publishing - Cash in on Teens and Tweens! - Negotiate Your Way to Higher Pay - Writing As Healing: The Power Of Personal Stories - Finish Your Novel in 8 Weeks! - Creating Three Dimensional Characters - Six Secrets To The Perfect Plot - The Art of the Press Release Class descriptions and prices: http://www.writersweekly.com/wwu/courses/ ~Have A Need For Creative Freelancers?~ http://www.writersweekly.com/phpBB2/index.php?c=2 ~Are You Missing The Party?~ The Freelance Writing Forum is very active and we'd love to have you join us! http://www.writersweekly.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=15 ~Need Our Advertising Rates?~ See: http://www.writersweekly.com/misc/adrates.html

Getting An Award For Your Book
An important aspect of promoting and selling your book is to demonstrate that it is a worthwhile publication. Its value can be shown by the recognition and awards it has received. One of the ways to have an award-winning book is to enter it in a contest. The Do-It-Yourself Book Festival is just such a contest. It is dedicated to recognizing self-published books and small presses. Each title is

The Publish and Sell Your Book Class
There is starting to be a buzz about the Publish and Sell Your Book class I offer through the Community Learning Program at Central Oregon Community College! I suspect that some of the interest has to do with former students who have taken the class to heart and are in the process of publishing their book. One, written by Becky Coffield and titled, Life was a Cabaret, should be available before

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How to Get Your Book Published: Quicktime Video

How to Get Your Book Published: Quicktime Video
Find out how Arielle Ford has helped launch the careers and create bestselling books for Deepak Chopra; Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the Soul series; Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God; Debbie Ford, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers; and Dean Ornish, Love and Survival and many, many other notable authors.

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Sell Direct Advertising On Your Site While Bathing Under The Sun: Adify Serve...

Sell Direct Advertising On Your Site While Bathing Under The Sun: Adify Serve...
Do you want to automate the entire direct advertising sales process for your web site? Would you see as a definite advantage the ability to sell directly to your potential advertisers, setting prices and terms? Photo credit: Alex Bramwell The......

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Important: 2006 Unleash RSS Preview for Existing Customers

Important: 2006 Unleash RSS Preview for Existing Customers

Just a quick update for existing Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS customers ... if you haven't received the message yet.

We just released the preview of the 2006 edition, with the first two sections. The preview (and the full version, once it comes out) is available to you for free, of course.

Just drop me an e-mail at rok.hrastnik@marketingstudies.net --- if you haven't received it yet.

And you'll certainly want to do so, since this isn't simply an upgrade, but a whole new e-book, with more easy-to-follow RSS marketing instructions than ever before.

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Become an Authority and Promote

Sharing your knowledge with others is helpful when promoting. Depending on what kind of books you write, you can become an authority in the field. By doing so, you not only help others that are interested in what you write about but create a perfect non-threatening situation to promote your work. When people get to know you and regularly read about the experiences and information you share with others, they begin to respect and trust you.

Yahoo! have created a medium in which you can do just that; Yahoo! Answers. Even Donald Trump has his profile there. What he uses it for will for sure create some money, I'm sure.

Check it out and start utilizing it to connect with like minded people. It is by giving that we receive.

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Authors W/ More Than 3 Books

Authors W/ More Than 3 Books
We’ve had a few authors ask us to allow more than (3) valid Amazon.com ISBN’s in their extended bio or if they should rotate their books. Blog question of the day: How many books should we all an author to include in their extended author bio page? 3, 5, 7, 10 or perhaps unlimited and just [...]

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Top Authors By Avg Views

Top Authors By Avg Views
I had a theory: EzineArticles authors who submit more than 100+ articles receive more average page views than those who submit less than 100 articles due to the law of numbers: Meaning, if you have more article inventory posted, you have a statistically higher chance at hooking a few home runs in terms of explosive [...]

Please Share the RSS Marketing Survey

Please help us make the RSS Marketing Survey as comprehensive as possible. All participants get the full survey report, and all the key data will be shared publicly.

1. Please take a few minutes and participate by clicking here.

2. Please share this URL (http://rsspoll.marketingstudies.net) with as many people as you can. Post it on your blog, send it out in your newsletter, mention it to your RSS peers ... :)

Really, the more data we get, the better results we'll be able to provide to you.

The goal of the survey is to research the RSS marketing landscape, collect top RSS marketing case studies and best practices, and find which key factors make successful RSS strategies successful.

BTW - the survey is getting alot of support from many marketers, such as Christopher Knight, RSS Ray, Lee Odden and may others (full list will be published after I return from Chicago).

And today we've just been covered by MarketingSherpa as well:
"If you've tested offering RSS and have any results to share, author/researcher Rok Hrastnik is seeking your input for the second edition of his report on the topic. We like Rok -- he's a genuine and enthusiastic researcher on the topic and worth supporting so the whole community can learn together."

Great thanks to everyone that's helping make the survey a success!

How Can RSS Power Your Internet Marketing and Publishing? Find out more in the most comprehensive and best guide on RSS for marketers, as acclaimed by leading RSS experts, developers, marketers and publishers. Click here and get the step-by-step guide to taking full marketing advantage of RSS.

Amazon ISBN Project, Take 2
This week based on member feedback, we added a few very cool new features: 1) You can now search for your Amazon.com ISBN # without leaving the Author Bio Profile page (thanks to Scott Allen for that suggestion), 2) You can view your selected ISBN# within your membership account in addition to the public view [...]

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Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day

Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day
Willem Knibbe of the Sybex team recently published a book entitled Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day. A copy of it hit my desk recently and I decided it s a must read. I ve never really explored SEO for my...

Digital Publishing Opinions
Here s a good article in today s New York Times entitled Authors' angst rising with digital publishing. My favorite quotes: Once text is digital, books seep out of their bindings and weave themselves together, Kevin Kelly wrote in an article (in...

Buying Trends by Book Genre
More book publishing statistics for 2004-2005 are appearing. The following pertains to fiction sales. Romance novels lead the way with 39.3% of sales. Next were mystery books at 29.6% Followed by general fiction with 12.9% of sales. When the figures are added, they total 81.80%. Thus, 18.2% of fiction books sales appear to fall outside of the three categories. What must they be? Whatever they

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Get Your Book on Reader's Hands Fast

There is not doubt that the main reason you wrote your book was to get it on readers hands as quickly as they were off the press. But is easier said than done, right? No matter what inspired you to write your book, you had a message in mind, but did you know its audience?

I hate to break it to you, but this is a business and even though I'm talking to artists here most of the time, this is the reality. When you think about writing your book you must know your audience, the message and all the potential promotional ideas that could propel the book's sale. You might also want to consider if there is a possibility for sequels on the book. Just think of the Chicken Soup series, or Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings just to name a few. It could be fiction or non-fiction, it really doesn't matter. What I'm talking about here is a book marketing plan that will take your book from the press to your readers in the shortest amount of time, that's what we want.

When I created Guerrilla Marketer's Cafe is was totally out of my efforts to market my own book. I found along the way many authors who were on the same path as me. I love to network with authors who are focused on letting the world know about their books which is not an easy task.
Before too long we accumulated enough information and ideas to market our books effectively. Authors started to put many of the ideas and promotions posted on our active Forum obtaining good results which we shared on our Brag Board. We encouraged and helped each other reach our individual audience. What we noticed was that those who did something to promote their book on a daily basis were the ones who obtained better results.

Being informed and then acting on the information is key in this business and between the site and this blog we are trying to do just that. I would like to hear from you as how the blog and site is helping you or not. It's my goal to continue to grow and improve it anyway I can. So if you would like to share your thoughts I'm sure other authors will thank you, not to mention myself. It is in this sharing that we have grown to over 120 members and we expect to add many more as we do our best to help them promote their books free.

To your success!

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Author Platform
The New York Observer recently ran this article on the subject of author platform. I ve written about author platform before, including one of my first posts entitled What Makes a Bestseller? Use the Google search button on the left panel...

Copywriting Makeover: Subtle Changes Make A Noticeable Difference Part 2 of 2
Changing a few words in your copy can lead to double-digit increases in conversions. If that sounds like a bunch of hype from an online infomercial, stick around and I'll show you how it's done.

Author Marketing
I read this article by Jennifer Alsever in last month s Business 2.0 and it s now available for all to read on their website. Jennifer talks about the need for authors to be more involved in marketing their books via blogs,...

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My Digital Photography School Goals

My Digital Photography School Goals
Since I’ve set the topic for this week’s group writing project I thought I’d better submit an entry myself on Blogging Goals. It’s a fairly wide topic, especially if I was to tackle it on a macro level thinking across all of my blogs, so I’ll just focus on one of them, my newest one, Digital [...]

FeedBurner and TypePad Integrate Blog Feeds
Feedburner and Typepad are announcing a way for TypePad users to redirect their TypePad RSS feed into a Feedburner one. This will give them a more integrated way to track stats. It sounds similar to what the Feedburner plugin for WordPress does that I’ve spoken about previously. Found via Micro Persuasion

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FeedBurner and TypePad Integrate Blog Feeds

FeedBurner and TypePad Integrate Blog Feeds
Feedburner and Typepad are announcing a way for TypePad users to redirect their TypePad RSS feed into a Feedburner one. This will give them a more integrated way to track stats. It sounds similar to what the Feedburner plugin for WordPress does that I’ve spoken about previously. Found via Micro Persuasion

Blogging Goals - Readers Submissions Part III
Today’s submissions for the Blogging Goals Group Writing Project are following (don’t forget - one day to go til this project closes): Team Blogging Goals by Catherine Morley Goal Setting: I Need your Help by Mary Jo Manzanaes Blogging for Business Goals by Ted Demopoulos Thatta Kedona Making a Difference Through Blogs by Doll Ready, Set, Goals by Jon How [...]

Paying Markets And Freelance Jobs For June 7th
PAYING MARKETS These are NOT recycled guidelines. WritersWeekly.com only features original market listings, received from and approved by the editors at each publication. Christian Home & School CURRENT NEEDS: "All articles dealing with parenting children ages 5 through 18, marriage, and Christian education. Suggested topics are in our guidelines for writers. We also look for seasonal articles dealing with the beginning of the school year, Christmas, graduation, summer activities, and vacations." Pays $175-$250 depending on edited length for 1000-2000 words. The Dollar Stretcher CURRENT NEEDS: "All manner of time and money saving articles." Pays $0.10/word for 500-750 words. Driftwood, A Literary Journal of Voices from Afar CURRENT NEEDS: "Short stories, fiction, travel writing, photography." Pays $10 plus 2 contributor's copies and a one-year subscription. Echelon Magazine CURRENT NEEDS: "Finance writers, (stock market), entertainment business articles, GLBT business profiles, news items." Pays $0.50/word for features of 1500-2000 words. FOCUS: Victoria's Magazine of People CURRENT NEEDS: "Investigative journalism on coastal BC issues, especially Vic/Vancouver Island." Pays $500+ (CDN) for mss averaging 1500 words. Friction Zone CURRENT NEEDS: " We are now looking for travel writers in all of the states we are distributed in. These states are listed on our webpage. We need travel pieces, motorcycle maintenance articles, articles on laws that pertain to motorcycles (must be an attorney for this section), and spotlights on interesting people in the motorcycle industry." Pays $0.20/word for articles appearing in only one edition and $30/word for those appearing in both editions; reimburses for meals and lodging for travel reviews.