Posts Tagged blogging

Microformats: What’s the Big Deal?

Microformats are semantic markup systems that “tag” your content (post/photo/video) in the context of related knowledge. Examples are hCard (contact details) and hRecipe (food recipes). Microformats help people and machines understand what your content is “about”. This metadata helps search engines and humans to better understand your message in the context of related information. Emily Lewis explains [...]

Build Your Web Site with WordPress

WordPress is an open source platform that can empower your web site to effectively run your business. By “run your business” I mean marketing, public relations, sales, communications, networking, ecommerce, distribution, and even customer support. This article covers the basics of getting WordPress installed and running. Fine-tuning and adding special features to WordPress such as [...]

Blogging Tips

RIE Meetup Talk outline: First things first: - what is blogging? - types of blogs – journals – news commentary – magazines – special interest – clubs and organizations The Discipline of Writing - how often? - how long? - scheduling your posts - guest blogging - guest bloggers Single or multiple author? - benefits of multiple authors Growing an audience. - you need a mailing list - subscriptions - ping services - Google sitemaps - register [...]