Connecting to a Gay Community by Blogging Groups, like PFLAG (Oldsters and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) aim at giving support for GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) people across all fifty states in 50 chapters. However, most of those chapters are located in larger cities, leaving those in smaller towns without adequate GLBT support.The alternative to this is to connect with others on-line who share similar experiences and...more
What is an SMS Gateway API? Not many people are truly familiar with SMS gateway APIs, a popular up-and-coming technology. An SMS gateway is a server used to send and receive SMS messages. API to SMS gateways facilitate the sending and receiving of information from these servers; they allow you to write software or a website that can interact with it. As the role of mobile phones in our society continues to grow, it becomes...more
The Art Of Creating Blogs That Get Results Right From Day One! by Dr. Jeffrey LantBlogs are in! Blogs are omnipresent! Blogs are the future of the 'net!All true but what is a blog... and how do you profit from it?Purists may offer a different definition (purists usually do)... but to me, the complete capitalist, a blog is and always will be about one thing: making money. Every day. All the time.Let me say this another way because for far too many people blogs are an unbridled (and correspondingly horrifying) excess of vanity, self-gratification, arrogance, not to mention an avalanche of incredibly boring stuff and Things You Don't Want To Know. Yes, too many smart people use them as a cheap form of venting and therapy.But (my recommendations in hand) you won't. You'll stay forever focused on the main chance: using your blog to generate prospect leads... and make money. Now... dig in. I am about to deliver an embarrass du choix for big blog bucks.Train your readers to be responsive.If you intend to use your blog to make money, you must train your readers to be responsive. Otherwise, you will dramatically curtail and limit your responses (and blog profits)... which...more
Twitter - Anatomy of a Microblogging Tool Twitter. It's used by over 45 million people (estimated June 2009) around the world to send messages 24/7. Not all of those people have remained active users, due to the supposed fad-like nature of social networking tools like this, but still, many millions use it daily, if note weekly. I...more
7 Ways to Keep Your Niche Blog Visitors Interest And Keep Them Coming Back For More After all, it probably took you a lot of time and effort to target your leads and tap your network of contacts in order to generate the listing from that e-mail group. Don't let it go to waste. Here are 7 ways you can use to treat visitors that come...more
Setting Up a Blog With WordPress WordPress is a great place to set up your blog. This is probably the most popular blogging platform there is, most likely because of all the options that you have.When setting up a blog with WordPress you can have it hosted for free, and also get a free subdomain, or you can get your own domain and a hosting account with them, or you can use their software on your own hosting plan.If you choose to use their software on your hosting account, then you need to download it, and then re-upload it to your hosting account. They provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to do this. WordPress also has its own forum where you can go and ask questions any time you need to, or just start chatting with others.To get started simply go to wordpress.com and sign up.The great thing about WordPress is all the great features they provide their users with. You get to choose from 78 different themes to make your blog unique; and many widgets to choose from like:Akismet: This tool helps to block spam comments being submitted to your site.Blog Subscriptions: This allows others to enter in their email and subscribe to your blog.Categories: Neatly...more
A Basic Guide to Blogging A blog is basically an online diary or journal that digitally records about anything you would want people to read. "Blog" is short for the term weblog and aterm coined in humor in the late 1990's. They come...more
How Do You Hold a Conversation on Your Blog? After reading this article you will be able to phrase posts to your Blog in such a way that you are holding a conversation with your readers.I have already written about the concept of Know...more
What is a blog and how you can get one of your own? The word blog has been derived from the phrase ‘web log'. It has existed in the web domain for the last 10 years. Blogs are considered to be online diaries. Blog lets you bring your...more
Blog For Traffic Review: Link Exchange And The Art Of Blogging? As you know, there are many other bloggers in your niche and the interesting thing is that you can use this to your advantage! Some of these bloggers have many readers and...more
The Benefits of a Company Blog There are many advantages to writing a company blog, including:1. Optimisation: Search engines love blogs because they offer fresh, relevant content all the time. Keywords, links, tags, and categories can...more
Easy Blogging Guide: Should You Be Controversial? So what do you think. Are you controversial? Maybe you are and maybe you're not. Some people just love to stir things up from time to time, while other people just take everything in...more