6 MORE Great Starter Plugins for WordPress

September 9, 2009

A while back I put together a quick list of some of my favorite Plugins to install when you’re getting started with WordPress.  After spending some more time with WordPress, I have more I’d like to add to the discussion.  Most of these are pretty basic, and would be helpful for most blogs.
Useful WordPress Plugins
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Advertising on Your Website with Chitika

September 8, 2009

I’m always looking for new and interesting ways to make a few extra pennies from my websites and blogs.  A few weeks ago I came across a targeted advertising service called Chitika.  While it’s not easy to say, it is really easy to use, and it’s a form of advertising that looks similar to Google [...]

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18 Rules of Community Engagement :: Book Review

August 25, 2009

Starting an online community seems easy.  You set up a website, install your forum software, and away you go!  There’s just one small catch… you need people to build a community.  Maybe you’ve already found your audience… now what do you DO with all of those people?  Angela Connor can help!  18 Rules of Community [...]

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Forum Participation as an Alternative to Advertising

August 20, 2009

I just read an blog post from Richard Millington over at Fever Bee called When A Short-Cut Takes You In An Opposite Direction.  At the end of the article, he declares “If you want to sponsor a community, that’s fine. It gets your name in front of the right people. But it’s not even close [...]

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Moving a Website & Changing Nameservers

August 18, 2009

This week was another web ‘first’ for me.  I moved this site to a new host!  It really wasn’t very complicated, but I ran into a few speed-bumps.  I’ll run through a few things I had to do.
There were 2 major obstacles for me.  First off, I’m running Wordpress for this blog, and needed to [...]

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Basic Tweaks for the Thesis Theme Round 1

July 16, 2009

I’ve done enough reading to know that while the learning curve for the Thesis Wordpress theme may be a little bit steep, it’s worth it in the end.  I’ve also read that once you ‘get’ it, it’s easy to make new changes in the future.
I’m still at the head scratching phase, but I’ll document some [...]

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Online Communities for Online Community Managers

July 10, 2009

I recently came across a bunch of links for Online Community Manager groups or communities via the Online Community Manager LinkedIn group. I figured I’d share them!
I haven’t signed up for many of these, so I don’t know if they’re worthwhile or not, but you can find that out for yourself.
Communities of Practice on [...]

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