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Stop Annoying Twitter Usage Trends

October 10, 2008 – 11:28 am

Wendy Piersall, CEO of SparkPlugging just published The Five Most Annoying Twitter Usage Trends, and I’m cheering. I probably added about 700+ new people to follow – and it was really interesting to go back to my email inbox and see my Twitter emails folder stuffed with Direct Messages (DMs) from these people thanking me […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips | Comments (16)

Blog Exercises: Stand Up For Freedom of Speech

April 26, 2013 – 4:24 am

There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can’t say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993 to 7. They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. “All of you words over here, you seven…baaaad words.” That’s what they told […]

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Blog Exercises: The Royal We

April 17, 2013 – 4:14 am

People who refer to themselves as “yours truly.” What kind of grandiose crap is this? Some even speak of themselves in the third person. Athletes and entertainers are big on this demented shit: “I’m going to do what’s right for Leon Spinks!” I think people like this are mentally ill. And you can include those […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, comments, inclusive, interaction, interactivity, pronoun, royal we, social web, voice, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: How Many Words in a Link?

March 28, 2013 – 4:35 am

How many words should you put into a link? Is there a rule? There isn’t a rule but there are good standards and practices. These state that two words should be the minimum, and only enough words to compel someone to click through to the linked source. The words must also imply the link’s destination […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: anchor text, blog exercises, Blogging Tips, html, html tags, link guidelines, links, readability, web standards, web writing, writers guidelines, writing for the web, writing guidelines | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: Preview Posts

March 20, 2013 – 4:54 am

Do you preview a post before publishing? If not, consider adding this extra step to the publishing process. Why? I’m human. So are you. We mess things up. No matter how careful you are, you will make mistakes. That’s life. By double checking what your post will look like before you release it to the […]

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Blog Exercises: Speed Blogging with CoLT

March 15, 2013 – 4:01 am

I’d like to introduce you to the work horse I use for speed blogging. It’s a web browser add-on for Firefox called CoLT. It stands for Copy Link Text. I will be offering a variety of web browser tips and tools to make blogging faster and easier throughout these Blog Exercises, and of all of […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, colt, firefox, firefox add-on, firefox extension, firefox tips, html, productivity, speed blogging, web browser, web browser tips, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: Check Your Site Title Tag

March 14, 2013 – 4:40 am

Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is required to have the <title> tag in the <head> of the source code HTML structure. […]

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Creating Footnotes in WordPress

February 26, 2013 – 11:35 pm

Among the many techniques students and clients request in my WordPress and blogging workshops and classes1, requests for creating footnotes in WordPress are rare, but they do happen. There are very distinctive differences between traditional writing and web publishing styles.2 Footnotes have been replaced by links to cite a reference or resource to support the […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: academia, academic, bibliography, citation, creative writing, credits, endnotes, foot notes, footnote links, footnote lists, footnotes, jump links, notes, page jumps, technical writing, web publishing, wordpress, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (1)

WordPress Featured in Wall Street Journal

November 1, 2012 – 10:37 am

Matt Mullenweg of Automattic, WordPress.com, the self-hosted version of WordPress, was featured today on the Wall Street Journal Business talking about the fact that WordPress now supports 14% of all websites in the world, approximately 1 in 6 globally. Matt talked about the future of WordPress and made these three points. WordPress as a CMS: […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News | Tags: automattic, cms, matt mullenweg, mobile, news, social blogging, social media, touch, wall street journal, wordpress in the news, WordPress News, wordpress publicity, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom, wsj | Comments (8)

How Many is Too Many WordPress Plugins?

September 27, 2012 – 2:17 pm

In “How Many WordPress Plugins Should You Install on Your Site?” WPBeginner asks a question I bring up in my workshops, training programs, and college courses: How many WordPress Plugins are too many. The article brings up some valid points worth considering when choosing WordPress Plugins. Are WordPress Plugins a security risk? How would you […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Tags: choosing a plugin, installing a plugin, plugin performance, plugin security, plugins, site performance, themes, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes | Comments (48)

DuckDuckGo: The Search Engine You Need to Meet

September 19, 2012 – 11:18 am

Recently, DuckDuckGo has been turning up in my referrers list. Curious about the name, and thinking it was a spam site, DuckDuckGo needed investigation. Seems I’ve been missing out on what could be the major competition to Google as a search engine. Here is a quick summary of what I learned about DuckDuckGo. It is […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging News, Web Browsers, Web Wise | Tags: analytics, anonymous, browser add-on, browser plugin, browsers, dnt, do not track, duckduckgo, filter bubble, google, google search, legal, mobile apps, pagerank, policies, privacy, privacy statement, privacy violation, search directory, search engine, security, seo, serp, tracking, web analytics, web browsers | Comments (9)

Adding, Deleting, and Changing a WordPress Category

September 13, 2012 – 9:02 pm

Time to add a new category to WordPress? Have enough content within a specific topic and want to add it to your category lists? Changing your mind about a category name and wish to change it? Want to delete an entire category worth of posts because you don’t want to cover that topic anymore? Adding […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: categories, categories in wordpress, change categories, changing categories, delete category, edit categories, move categories, move category, renaming category, tags, wordpress, wordpress categories, wordpress tags, WordPressDotCom | Comments (42)

What You Most Need to Know About WordPress

August 24, 2012 – 6:48 pm

At the recent WordCamp Portland 2012, I was asked by several attendees to cover the basics of WordPress and we came up with What You Most Need to Know About WordPress. Here are the “notes” from that unconference presentation. The Difference Between Categories and Tags I hear this question at WordCamps, from readers, students, and […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, WordCamps, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog writing, Blogging Tips, headings, how to blog, how to blog with WordPress, images, links, multimedia, post content, seo, what you most need to know in wordpress, wordpress, wordpress and seo, wordpress essentials, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing, writing tips | Comments (16)

Browser Wars: Internet Explorer Falls, Firefox Tables, and Chrome Soars

June 27, 2012 – 5:06 pm

Preparing to teach the HTML Fundamentals class at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, this summer, I did a quick bit of research on web browsers to check the current status of the browser marketplace. While not surprised, I was rather taken aback at the downfall of Internet Explorer and fast rise of Chrome. According to […]

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7 Blogging Steps Even Veteran Bloggers Forget

June 24, 2012 – 11:23 am

Originally published in Blogger and Podcaster Magazine and updated. I write for a variety of online and offline magazines. They’ve graciously permit me to republish my articles. Participating in a recent multiple guest blogger event, I edited and review posts by many top bloggers before publishing. I was rather stunned to find that even veteran […]

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