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USTREAM Streaming Video on Your WordPress Blog

March 1, 2010

Using a USTREAM live video feed on your blog is easy, and it makes finding your streaming  feed easy for your target audience! This screencast tutorial will help you embed both video and chat on your WordPress blog. NOTE: If you scroll down this page, you’ll see I have pasted some code that I refer [...]

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Social Plugins for WordPress

February 22, 2010

A key way to building community on your blog is to cross promote it through other social media outlets, while at the same time making it really easy for your readers to engage in conversations on your blog . Integrating your blog with a Facebook Fan Page, for example, makes your content more accessible to [...]

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Widgets for Your Website! LifeWidget and the Power of Widgets!

February 16, 2010

Widgets are a great way to get content from other sources into your blog. They’re stand alone apps, or a window into another content stream, that you can install into the sidebar of your blog. What makes them so great is that widgets are dynamic, and update themselves as they stream information from another source. [...]

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Using Social Media For Campus Ministry

January 22, 2010

Check out this great article Brian Barela wrote for his blog about leveraging technology and social media for ministry on college campuses. Leveraging Technology for Campus Ministry I think he makes a great point by distinguishing between the different types of communication and when they might be appropriate in using Facebook Fan Pages vs. Group [...]

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5 New Year’s Resolutions for Bloggers

January 14, 2010

Check out this great post at Crublogging.com 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Bloggers I think it’s spot on, and it’s five quick points that every blogger should be thinking about to improve the level of audience engagement on their blog. Share

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Facebook Share Button: Let Others Share Your Blog Across Facebook

January 13, 2010

A really simple way to let others spread the word about your blog, and to integrate your blog into Facebook is with a Share button. With a Share button, anyone, including yourself, can instantly share your blog posts on their Face book profile page, news feed, and wall. Once they’re sharing, your content has the [...]

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Anti Spam and Security Plugins for Your WordPress Blog

January 12, 2010

Spam happens, and it can happen to your blog. Just like your email, your blog comments can get spammed. And just like your computer, blogs have security issues too. Here are a couple articles to help you deal with it. Top 5 WordPress AntiSpam Plugins Security and AntiSpam Plugins for WordPress Of the plugins listed [...]

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Sticky Posts: How To Make a Post Stick To The Top of Your Home Page

January 12, 2010

Let’s say your group is putting on a HUGE event that you want your entire audience to know about. In fact, the event is so big that you wish your blog post about that event was always at the top of your list of posts on your home page. Not a problem with WordPress and [...]

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Removing the underline from links in the footer

January 11, 2010

Have you been troubled by the underline that shows up under any link that you place in the footer section of your WordPress blog when using Thesis 1.6? Well, here is a solution: When logged in to your dashboard select Custom File Editor from under the Thesis Options menu Add the following line of code [...]

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WordPress Admins, Editors, and Subscribers – Different Levels of Access

January 8, 2010

WordPress gives you the ability to set up new users for your blog with different levels of access. This can be really helpful if you want to have lots of people contributing content to your blog. This way, you can have a team of people writing new posts without giving everyone the power to accidentally [...]

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