Category: Blogging

  • Padcasting from the iPad and Garageband

    Garageband for the iPad came out in the App Store and I gave it a test, doing some “padcasting”. It’s a very polished interface, typical high quality Apple standards, but there are some gotchas. Watch more in the 2 minute video. Mobile editing of audio is awesome for all podcasters, and you can interchange desktop…

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  • Experimenting with premium content

    In my next newsletter coming out some time next week, I’ll be experimenting with premium content using Blue Sky Factory’s Publicaster email marketing software. I’ve just about got all the pieces assembled and figured out, so that everyone will get the newsletter, but premium members will see more content in the actual newsletter than non-premium…

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  • Sign up for the Facebook Analytics webinar

    Updated March 3: The webinar has been recorded and is now available by clicking here. There was such ridiculously positive demand for a re-run of the Facebook Analytics webinar from Social Fresh Tampa that I’m going to record it and make it available in the near future as a webinar on demand. If you’d like…

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  • How I blog with Evernote

    If you’ve got 1 or more mobile devices in addition to a desktop, you might want to consider using Evernote to blog. Here’s my methodology. More info: Evernote iPad Bluetooth Keyboard Case (Amazon)

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  • Weekend Foodblogging: A Crispy Secret

    We love the crispy crunch that fried foods have, don’t we? We also do not love all the calories, fat, and other unpleasant stuff that comes with fried foods, right? Here’s a crispy quesadilla secret that can transform nearly any sandwich into a crisp, golden, delicious wonder with virtually no extra fat, gobs of oil…

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  • Do you have a welcome page?

    Those of you who have been following me on Twitter over the past 6 months have seen me tweet out the start of every day with something like this: Good morning friends! Some pithy short comment about life today here. New friend? Welcome aboard: https://cspenn.com/w This short URL takes you over to my welcome page,…

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  • Recommendation: Anticipate Plugin for WordPress

    If it isn’t obvious from the multiple ads around the site, I’m both a fan and affiliate of Elegant Themes, Nick Roach’s great little development house. His most recent WordPress utility, Anticipate, is something worth talking about. If you’re in the middle of redeveloping a WordPress site (be it corporate, personal, whatever) and you want…

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  • Evergreen 5: What 5 blog posts did you miss?

    If you’ve been blogging for any amount of time, chances are you’ve got some hits. You’ve got some articles that have performed amazingly well, articles that people have loved, read, shared, and printed out to staple to their bosses’ heads. The blog posts you’ve written that have taken off have given you that sense of…

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  • How to correctly sing Auld Lang Syne

    Every year, people sort of hum Auld Lang Syne as the ball drops. Every year, you don’t have to. Instead, read the lyrics and watch this video. Music and lyrics by NoPrivacy on YouTube: Just the lyrics, courtesy of MaverickNY in the comments: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld…

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  • Phoning it in

    Phoning it in has become a popular pejorative among the blogging and social crowd. It’s considered the epitome of laziness, the pinnacle of apathy, and it’s something that you want to avoid as much as possible, right? Except… we’re human. Some days we simply don’t have enough A-game in the tank. Some days we simply…

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