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Pages About Categories Best Blogs (19) Authors Steve (19) Recent posts Harry Reid a Joke? A History of Diner Culture So, this bird walks into a store… Ten Forums to Make You a Better Blogger Why use WordPress? 34 Reasons Recent comments Micro - Hello... None... Nick Gray - all I have to say is Amen! Nick Gray - Steve, right on! Sorry I mi... lgiorgio - www.tamedart.com awesome... lgiorgio - www.tamedart.com awesome... Archives October 2007 (3) September 2007 (3) August 2007 (7) July 2007 (6) Links Blogroll Blogger Blog		You are browsing September, 2007 Ten Forums to Make You a Better Blogger September 17, 2007 — Steve (Views: 1022) Reading forums and participating in forums is a great way to become a better blogger. Forums focused on blogging are the best means to get questions answered and become known within the blogging community. I don’t suggest that you participate in all of these, but instead pick one or two and become a valuable member. The real power of forums is to become well known within the forums’ community. You want to establish yourself as a valued member of the community and an authority blogger. Here are my favorite blogging forums: 1. Authority Blogger Forum: The Authority Blogger Forum is a forum created by Chris Garrett, the author of Chrisg.com. This Forum is pretty new, but I am finding it to be a great community of bloggers. It is also great for new bloggers. 2. Blog Traffic School Forums: The Blog Traffic School Forums are forums provided by Yaro Starak. Yaro is the author of Entrepreneur’s-Journey blog. In addition to this blog, Yaro runs the Blog Mastermind blog mentoring program. If you are interested in being a professional blogger, I highly recommend join the Blog Mastermind program. I have been a participant since Yaro started it. 3. The Blog Experiment Forums: The Blog Experiment Forums are an extension of The Blog Experiment, but the forums are the focus of the community. This is an excellent community of bloggers. The forums are very active and very helpful. 4. Bloggeries Blog Forum: The Bloggeries Blog Forum is one of my favorite forums for blogging. Bloggeries has an awesome revenue sharing program with its participants. Participants earn 50% of the Adsense revenues generated from their threads. Bloggeries’ revenue sharing program is designed to create a very active community. 5. Blogger Forum: The Blogger Forum is one of the most active forums. It is a great forum and I highly recommend participating in this forum. If you are new to blogging the Newbie Section is a great resource. (more…) Filed under: Best Blogs \| Comments (6) Why use WordPress? 34 Reasons September 8, 2007 — Steve (Views: 1546) $\"wordpress$ The move of this blog to my own domain is nigh. At the same time I am moving over to Wordpress. Although blogspot Blogger has served me well, there are a few aspects that that frustrate me. I enjoyed the challenge of finding ways round problems but because of the time involved the novelty of this has worn off. Some of these issues have been solved with the new Blogger but it is not possible to use this version on your own server. Please keep in mind that these are my reasons for moving to Wordpress on my own domain, based on my own requirements. I would not consider moving to the online Wordpress as Blogger allows much more flexibility and the new version offers an easy to use interface for many customizations and add ins.. Before considering a move of this kind it is a good idea to think about why you need to. Consider: What features are not supported by your current blogging platform that you really need? Can these features be added to your current blog with plug-ins, workarounds or 3rd party sites. (e.g. Feedburner)? Your level of skill - Wordpress is not quite as easy to operate as Blogger and there is a learning process involved in setting up and managing your own domain. Do you have the time or inclination to go through this? If you are currently using Blogger classic - would a move over to the new and very much improved version satisfy your requirements? What bugs me about Blogger The comments page The theme cannot be edited and I want the ability to style it to match my blog template. There is no \”follow this thread by email\” feature or add in. It is not possible to remove nofollow. I have been compensating for this by manually creating a list of those who have commented, which I publish to the blog page, but this is time consuming. I want to continue giving recognition on my front page to those who contribute comments but this can be achieved automatically with Wordpress. (more…) Filed under: Best Blogs \| Comments (4) What do you install after a Windows re-format? September 3, 2007 — Steve (Views: 583) When I installed Vista on my laptop, I did so as an upgrade from Windows XP. Soon my computer became almost unusably slow and I was experiencing random crashes. One of our programmers had installed Vista from scratch and he had no such problems. So I did what I used to do every six months or so with Windows XP, a complete re-install. I have become a minimalist in many ways, so this was a good chance to do some housekeeping and only install the minimums (which ended up being pretty significant). I detailed this process and I am sharing it with you here. It would be interesting to find out what applications you consider essential when doing a complete re-format. I have changed some of the specific steps to be a bit more generic.Using this list, I will do the same exercise for my Unbuntu box.0. Make sure all data is backed upI generally put all my data in an external hard drive that is shared amongst my internal network, so this step is pretty easy. Things like bookmarks and setting are committed to subversion where the repository is stored externally. 1. Install Vista Ultimate (at your own risk ) Write down all the configuration steps you take, such as removing the sidebar, changing resolution, etc… so the next time you just go through the checklist. 2. Set up Wireless/Internet Connection 3. Microsoft Update 4. Get Updates from PC manufacturer (Latest firmware drivers) 5. Change domain to internal domain name 6. Uninstall un-needed programs 7. Map Network Drives 8. Map Network Printers 9. Install AVG Free (Anti-Virus and Spyware) 10. Install Firefox 2 with the following plugins: Del.Icio.Us toolbar Alexa Toolbar Firebug Web Developer Minimize to Tray and Minimize to Tray Enhancer Cobalt theme or or Blue Ice Netvibes.com as the home Make icons small 10a. Netvibes Bookmarks I like to have a centralized list of all the web applications I use frequently. Google Mail MindMeister Zoho Projects and CRM Google Docs Google Calendar Eventum Trac FlowChart.com Notifir.com ConstantContact.com 11. Install Spybot Search and Destroy Update Immunize 12. Install Ad-Aware SE Personal 13. Set Power Settings Use advanced settings 14. Taskbar and Start Menu Properties Removed hidden toolbar Enabled Administrator Links on program files changed icon size for programs to be small 15. Right Click->Properties Put My Computer on the Desktop along with Network 16. Install QuickBooks 2007 17. Install Daemon Tools I have a folder on the external driver where I store frequently used CD’s and DVD’s in the ISO format. 18. Install Outlook 2007 Downloaded for free from 1and1.com for my Exchange account (more…) Filed under: Best Blogs \| Comments (0)