"Best Practices" Posts
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Hacking On Our Minds: 5 Best Practices for Your WordPress Blog
Within days, WordPress bloggers hosted on GoDaddy got hacked again and Twitter experienced mouseover bugs. It’s enough to drive us all batty!
But these events allow us to remind everyone of the 5 best practices to hack-proof your WordPress blogs:
- Sign up with the best host you can afford. Mark Jaquith recently commented that you should be willing to pay an equivalent of a shrimp dinner (per month) for quality WordPress hosting.
- Keep your WordPress install (and plugins) up-to-date. Updating
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Give, Give, Give to Get
One of the prevailing themes that a lot of the speakers at BlogWorld promoted was to give as much as you can and you’ll get so much back.
This seems to be especially true in Twitterland where one of the best ways to engage your audience is to be a great resource and provide solutions – albeit in 140 characters!
One of the master practitioners of this movement is social media expert, Chris Brogan. We loved his post today about …
BlogWorld Expo Saturday Wrap Up – #bwe08
ContentRobot had the pleasure of attending these BlogWorld Expo keynotes and sessions on Saturday.
The Keynote
Richard Jalichandra of Technorati gave us a preview of the State of the Blogosphere. He indicated that it is active, influential, branded, and money-making. Expertise and self-expression remains and big reasons for personal bloggers and the sharing of ideas were important for corporate bloggers.
Anil Dash and Chris Alden of Six Apart discussed happenings with their blog products. They believe that bloggers want to …
BlogWorld Expo Friday Closing Keynote with Gary Vaynerchuk – #bew08
Gary Vaynerchuk gave a very energetic and inspiring closing keynote address – a great way to end the first day. His topic focused primarily on the importance of building your personal brand, something he has done a super job with. Here is what we learned from Gary Vee:
On Branding …
* American love brands and you must do everything you can to create as much personal and brand equity
* Determine why you matter and why people should listen …
BlogWorld Expo Session: Seducing Your Tribe – #bew08
ContentRobot headed to our next session: How to Seduce Your Tribe and Create Raving Fans, which was lead by Deb Micek. She gave us some great tips:
- Myth: You need a million dollars to start your own company and spread the word.
- Tools & Technologies You Can Use: Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Ning, Reddit, and more
- 5 Channels: Blogs, podcasts, video, social networks, social filtering (ex: digg)
- It’s Not About the Tools: It’s about you because your consumers are in
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