Awakened Voice

Every so often you stumble across something and think, “How is it that I didn’t know about this sooner?” ScribeFire is one of those things.
ScribeFire is a blog publishing tool that integrates with the Firefox web browser as an add on. Once you install ScribeFire you can create and edit blog posts from within the [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been doing some research on the different tools available for those who want to set up a photo blog (or just integrate more photos in their existing blog) using the WordPress platform. I’m sharing what I found here to help streamline the process for others interested in doing this as well.
Plugins

Slickr Gallery - Integrate [...]

I think that Marriott Hotels has done a very good job with their blogging initiatives. Marriott brought the Marriott On The Move blog online in January of 2007. Marriott On The Move features Marriott Chairman Bill Marriott talking about (literally via audio) a wide variety of issues related to Marriott hotels. The posts on the [...]

This post continues the practice of giving advice to those web services that aim to capitalize on the explosion in independent media publishing on the internet. These services are attempting to gain the favor of bloggers, podcasters, community builders and enterprise level producers who are looking to leverage Web 2.0 or social media technology.
Sadly, just [...]

I was listening to a recent episode of For Immediate Release and heard Neville Hobson mention a post by Dan York where Dan asks, “Where have all the Blognation writers gone?” In that post Dan links to Martyn Davies who compiled a list of the current outlets for Blognation writers. Still with me?
Neville also mentioned [...]

If there was every a time to point out the disease of rampant elitism in the tech blogging community then this is it. It’s time that a greater light was shined on the mental sickness that is affecting certain A-list bloggers and their followers. There are three situations that highlight these problems and they’ve all [...]

One factor of the long term success of a blog is the ability of people to find your blog in situations where they are looking around on the web for topics you’re writing about. So what I’m talking about is the visibility of your blog to search engines, related blogs and other services that [...]

I’ve upgraded my personal and family website to Movable Type 4. The changes are not visible to anyone but me as the admin for the sites.
At first glance it looks very slick. Movable Type is definitely heading towards WordPress type usability and features. It might even be there already.
I’ll know more in a few weeks [...]

This is the first in a series of posts that include tips on being successful when using social media. Everyone has a different definition of success so I’m only going to try and communicate these things based on my definition.
You are a success if you’re able to find and connect with an audience that [...]