- Caroline Middlebrook, a work from home Internet entrepeneur, has just released her first e-book, called “How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with Wordpress.” The e-book is fairly short, 46 pages, and does well to guide a newbie from installing Wordpress on a domain to fine tuning it to eventually building content for the Wordpress blog. It’s all for free too, download it now.
- Daniel from Daily Blog Tips, is organizing a tutorial contest, in which anyone’s invited to contribute with their guides and how to’s, in any are of expertise, be it blogging, design, SEO … err cooking? Also the best tutorials won’t go unrewarded, thus a 300$ prize pot is available. Contest ends Sunday, January 27. Read more about the contest and details on how to sing up can be found here.
- Congratulations to Maki for passing the 10k RSS readers milestone!
- Design takes a special place in any blog’s development and together with the blog it has to evolve as well. This is where redesigns come in, and with that in mind Steven Snell has compiled a list of 21 Factors to Consider Before a Redesign.
- Mark Knowles of Blogging Tips explains Why Blogs Die.
- Karen Zara will be hosting Stumbleupon, YouTube and MySpace talks, as part of the Social Media Mega Project, in which fellow bloggers are invited to share their experience on how they managed to integrate social media into their blogs. The projects covers 19 social networking websites, each hosted by a expert blogger in the respective field. Go here and find out where to submit your articles.
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Jan 26th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Thanks for the link Tibi.
Jan 26th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I like the title and the topic of your blog. I’ll be definitely going through your previous articles here. Thanks for the link love. It would be great if you could contribute to one of the projects in the social media mega project.
Jan 26th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
@Steve: You’re welcome
@inspirationbit: I sent a post back to Karen Zara about stumbleupon (here’s the post http://www.lostartofblogging.com/a-guide-to-stumbleupon-understanding-and-beating-the-system). Hope she received my e-mail. I have a few more posts about general Social Media too, I can add those too, if you’d like.