Awakened Voice

About two years ago I wrote a post that compared the WordPress and Blogger hosted blog services. A lot has changed since then for both services. I’ve been looking at my stats regularly and see that the original post still gets quite a bit of traffic. So I’ve made some updates to bring the post [...]

The new Blogger has been out of beta for a little while now so recently I decided to switch some of my podcast sites based on Blogger over from the old version to the new and improved version.
Despite multiple assurances on the screen that everything would be okay with the switch over something has happened [...]

I don’t think I’ve written anything about pinging on this blog yet. So now that Google has added the ability for you to ping their blog search engine this is as good a time as any to write about it.
For those of you not in the know on pinging I’ll provide a basic explanation. Certain [...]

If you’re interested in taking a spin around the new beta version of Blogger without having to sign up then I suggest you head over to the Awakened Voice Learning Center and take the 16 minute Blogger Beta Tour.
[tags]Social Media, Lessons, Awakened Voice, Blogger, Blogger Beta[/tags]

Blogger, the free web based blogging service that helped to popularize blogging, has announced a beta program to introduce a host of upgrades to their service.
As a Blogger user I can tell you that it’s been a while since a major upgrade so these features are very welcome. Unfortunately they are not open to every [...]

MARCH 2008 UPDATE: I wrote this post nearly two years ago and a lot has changed with these systems. I have added updates to reflect the changes in the systems. Updates are in italics.
If you’re just getting into Blogging, RSS and even Podcasting you may want to consider a low risk approach to the matter. [...]