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TwitHive is a web application for Twitter that lets you monitor multiple accounts in column view; it very much resembles TweetDeck and Seesmic. It lets you filter tweets by groups, search queries, RT’s and more. It also claims to integrate Google News and Blog Search when tracking keyword mentions. It has a built [...]

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All major browsers, save Internet Explorer 8, have inline spell checking as a feature out of the box and even IE can be trivially updated to do so. This has been a boon for bloggers who do much of their writing in the browser and having the spell checker built into their [...]

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Last week I wrote about the problem I was experiencing with Bluehost throttling my blog.
I did a bit of digging around to see if I could find any more information on the problem. I looked into my stats package and confirmed that many of the heavy use files were linked to the [...]

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WordPress continues to be one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) on the Internet and for good reason. It’s incredible versatile and, better still, it’s completely free to download to use. However, you may want to spend some money to customize your WordPress blog or website.
One of the better marketplaces on [...]

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Anything that can make writing easier is a blessing, but many writers often approach it by the seat of their pants. There’s nothing wrong with that. Adding some structure to the writing process can make the work move along more smoothly though.
Many writers, who use structure, follow certain steps when planning or [...]

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In this post Mark Hayward shares some great tips on social media for small business.

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Do you own a small business? How long have you been using social media as a marketing tool and what have you learned?
In a little over a months time I will have owned my [...]

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I started blogging by reading a lot of blogs. Among all the blogs I still read are Mashable and TechCrunch. I never skip them on my RSS reader, and I feel that other people do the same.
The question then becomes: how did TechCrunch and Mashable managed to become the most popular blogs [...]

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I get a ton of e-mail from many different people. Keeping everyone straight can be difficult and those are just the people I know personally. I have a contact form on my blog and occasionally get people contacting me and asking me to try things, blog about things and for help. I don’t [...]

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Online Success and You
Hi Everyone,
I have just got back from Washington DC where I was attending Yanik Silver’s Underground Online Seminar. What an amazing event – truly the Best Underground Online Seminar ever and the first time I was a speaker. (The Young Moguls Day was a huge Success)
Michael Dunlop and [...]

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Yesterday I wrote a post about some of the factors that bloggers might consider when deciding whether to end a blog or not.
Today I want to continue the theme and look at some options available to bloggers who have decided to end their blog but who don’t quite know how to do [...]