Articles for January 2007

Shameless self promotion: 7 reasons why you should buy The New Paper tomorrow!

Okay, let me do some “shameless self promotion” here. Get The New Paper tomorrow (1 February 2007)! Why? I have 7 great reasons for you! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Heh! [...]

Google Alerts Becoming Garbage Alerts?

One of the most powerful ways in which bloggers find out (or at least, try to find out) about the latest news on the blogosphere and on the web is through the very popular Google Alerts. Using the alert tool, you can specify keywords or key phrases, so when the big G finds new content in [...]

Blog Marketing for Beginners - Wonderful!

True to my “blogging addict” self, I am back up blogging in the middle of the night - it is 1am now, but I’m still feeling so excited about what has just happened over the last 5 hours. It wasn’t my first ever presentation about blogging. In fact, I’ve done it a few times before, [...]

Bookmarks Explosion for 28 January 2007

I was supposed to post this yesterday but I got caught up with work! Gosh! I’m working on a Sunday again! Enjoy these articles I’ve collected over the last week! Want to really scrutinize your site for dead links? This might be the perfect application for you! Moreover, its free! CEOs [...]

3 reasons why you should inject humor in your blog posts

I think one very powerful way to make your content interesting to read is to really inject humor in your blog posts - and here are 3 great reasons why you should do that! Reason #1: Humor lets your personality show We’ve heard so much about being authentic and transparent in blog posts. I think every [...]

Blogs are a nuisance, but corporations have no choice.

Just a couple of days ago, I met up with some senior executive officers in a very well established Singapore based MNC, and I was there because I was called upon to discuss my training proposal for the company. So there I went. One of the days of my proposed training was all about blog [...]

How to start monitoring your blog statistics

In this week’s blogging tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can start to monitor your blog’s statistics using the very popular StatCounter service! First, why do you need to monitor your blog traffic statistics? If you are blogging for fun, it might not be necessary for you to monitor your stats - after all, you [...]

Fortune 500 Blog Review: American Express

So according to my blog editorial calendar I shall follow. Today shall be a day I continue with my Fortune 500 Blog Review, and today I am investigating the card you should never leave home without - the American Express! Let start from the Amex Website Nope. No signs of any blogs whatesoever - at [...]

WordPress 2.1 is out!

For once, I’m going to tell you to hold on tight, back up your files, stop eating, stop watching television and stop blogging! Its time to upgrade to WordPress 2.1! Finally! Autosave features, tabbed editor… I’m not going to type more! Head of over to the download page now!

My Blog Editorial Calendar

In my Bookmark Explosions on 15 January 2007, I shared an article by Mike from Converstations about his wonderful idea of a blog editorial calendar. I think having a blog editorial calendar is wonderful way for you to get over a blogger’s writing block, because with some structure in place, we can then pre-plan what to [...]