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My 9 Favorite Wordpress Social Media Plugins | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

What really makes the platform as successful as it is, are the thousands of themes and plugins that the WordPress community contributes. These add ons turn what essentially is a blogging platform, into just about any type of site you want from community to content management systems to storefronts. It truly is amazing.

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Awesome WordPress Plugins to Empower Your Visitors

ProBlogger

Chat forums aren’t for every site, but when done right they’re great ways to build community and facilitate conversation. WordSpew is great because it uses Ajax to refresh everything automatically, keeping the chat window flowing in real time. Post from: ProBlogger Blog Tips. Chat forum. Pierre’s Wordspew.

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Top 6 Ideas for Incredible Viral Content for Social Media.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Examples include: Instant Domain Search (with its AJAX glory) Website Monitoring Tests Think about it this way: MyBlogLog has a widget , statistics, and a community. I’ve already stated that I love apps built on the Digg API , and anyone with some programing know-how can build an excellent web-based or standalone utility.

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Blog Design for ROI Rule #5: Engage Readers On Archive Pages—Fast!

ProBlogger

Help returning visitors get the most out of your archive with these tips: Give visitors control over how many posts are shown on your archive pages, and if possible, save their preference for next time. Use AJAX to load posts or further archive pages in the same category (e.g. AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML.

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Blogging Between Hot Flashes

Almost Savvy

Suddenly, I’m inundated with new terminology: ftp, html coding, ajax, api keys and plugins. New friends have generously shared advice and tips to get the blog up and running. In my previous role as a online community advisor, our demographic was an inverted bell curve, we had about an equal number of 60+ and 20- members.

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Blogging Between Hot Flashes

Almost Savvy

Suddenly, I’m inundated with new terminology: ftp, html coding, ajax, api keys and plugins. New friends have generously shared advice and tips to get the blog up and running. In my previous role as a online community advisor, our demographic was an inverted bell curve, we had about an equal number of 60+ and 20- members.

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How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are some tips you can apply to your Facebook marketing strategy that will put your Facebook Page leaps and bounds ahead of the competition: Maximize Your Avatar Visibility Profile pictures on Facebook can have a maximum size of 200×600 pixels. link] Reply megan December 1, 2009 at 11:52 am awesome tip. thanks, tamar.

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