How I Set Up My WordPress Blog In 2 Hours
This isn’t a trick question.
But really, how many blogs does a gal need?
After all, from a practicality point of view, the answer to that question should be one, right?
Apparently, ’tis not the case with me.
If you and I talk regularly on Twitter, or Facebook… heck, even in the early days of WUL (and I have to stifle a giggle as I say that, because this blog is barely two years old!), you’ll know that I love food.
Image: kennymatic via Flickr, CC 2.0
Filed under Blogging, Blogging for Grasshoppers, Shonali Burke, Social Media | Tags: getting your blog started, spicing out, wordpress | Comments (22)Love eating it.
Love talking about it.
5 Ways To Spice Up Your WordPress Blog
Part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series
One of the things that I’ve been doing over the last couple of years, ever since I started this blog, was to play with plugins and ways in which it could look more visually appealing.
‘Cos it’s not just what you read, it’s how what you read looks that could entice you to hang around, chat a while… and maybe subscribe.
Right?
If you’re just getting started blogging (or maybe even if you’ve been doing it a while), here are some WordPress plugins I really really like. See if they work for you.
Filed under Blogging for Grasshoppers, Public Relations, Shonali Burke, Social Media | Tags: addons, blogging, enhancing your blog, plugins, wordpress | Comments (14)Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall
With IABC/Washington’s first chapter meeting of 2010 coming up next week, I thought it would be interesting to see what our moderator, Daria Steigman, had to say of the communication changes over the past decade (h/t Geoff Livingston for giving me the idea from the final BlogPotomac). That’s what our meeting’s focusing on, or “looking back, looking ahead,” as its title goes.
I know Daria will have a lot more to say come next Thursday, but in the meantime, here’s a peek into her grey matter to get you thinking. And I hope we’ll see you next week – it’s not often that Shashi Bellamkonda (Network Solutions), Torod Neptune (Waggener Edstrom), John Taylor (Sprint Nextel) and Paul Sherman (Tech Wire Publications) gather under the same roof. Early bird registration ends Jan. 12, so hurry, hurry, hurry!
What, in your opinion, is the most dramatic change we’ve seen in the communication landscape since 2001?
I tend to think that Web 1.0 and the democratization of access to information changed the landscape in the 1990s. That said, the arrival of Web 2.0, and the ability for everyone (or anyone) to be a content creator, publisher, and sharer of information transformed the communications landscape in the first decade of the 21st century. If you think about some of the key developments and the tools we take for granted, they weren’t around when the century started. If you did a timeline of some of the key platforms, you have 2003 (WordPress, MySpace, LinkedIn); 2004 (FaceBook, Flickr), 2005 (YouTube), 2006 (Twitter).
Filed under Communication, Events, Shonali Burke, Social Media | Tags: blog potomac, Communication, daria steigman, facebook, flickr, geoff livingston, iabc washington, integrated communication, john taylor, linkedin, myspace, paul sherman, public affairs, shashi bellamkonda, Social Media, stakeholders, torod neptune, Twitter, web 1.0, web 2.0, wordpress, youtube | Comments (2)
