Articles for March 2007
Blogging for Education
I was much inspired and an article by Lorelle over the Blog Herald, on The future of education is in the blogs. We’ve all seen the power which blogs have given to businesses, and the next step is definitely in the education industry.
I used to attend a sociology class (yeah, cross faculty [...]
WordPress 2.1.2 Critical Update!
The peeps have at WordPress announced a very critical update WordPress 2.1.1 users.
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.
My oh my, this message has to [...]
Join the SOAP party!
Easton from Business Blogwire is at it again, and this time, he is getting us to SOAP each other!
SOAP stands for “Scratch One Another Program” for Bloggers and here’s an except of his post.
Yeah, but what is it really? And what’s this about scratching?
Okay. SOAP is a simple blog improvement program whereby [...]
IT Show 2007 in Singapore
Man… IT show 2007 is coming up next week.
I remember the times when I used to go to these large scale IT shows… sometimes twice or three times within the same week! That was the time when I was all crazed about tweaking and what we call “modding” our personal computers, overclocking our CPUs [...]
A thinking process to get you writing a good blog post when you have absolutely nothing in mind
If you have been blogging consistently for at least two months, you must have experienced this before. After a busy day in business or at work, you barely have the time to think of what you want to put up on your blog to keep your readers entertained for the day, but nevertheless, you [...]
Use of blogging in business: its all about trust
There has been a lot going on about corporate blogging and business blogging, but what exactly are the uses of blogs in business? How can blogs help business and produce measurable results?
The fact is that blogs are just another tool - a tool that enables a non-technically trained person to publish on the Internet! [...]
The best way to teach HTML!
Ever been frustrated teaching people how some HTML tags work? Try this. (h/t: Presentation Zen)
A picture paints a thousand words. True.
3 main reasons why readers unsubscribe from your feeds and how you can combat that
Problogger revealed another great survey done recently, with regard to why people unsubscribe from blog feeds, and it seems that the three most important factors involve the frequency of posting, partial feeds, and focus.
Let’s go deeper into each one.
Frequency of Posting
In his survey, “too many posts” was in fact the most popular reason why people [...]
Tan Kian Ann is blog marketer based in Singapore. He now works with individuals and small businesses reach out to the world using blogs. 


