Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Customize Your Blog’s Error Page in 5 Easy Steps November 4th, 2010 Tweet This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series Here’s how to customize your 404 error page in 5 easy steps which is a wise thing to do for bloggers, grasshoppers or not. Five easy steps to customizing your 404 page, assuming you’re using WordPress (you in Blogger, or something, I ain’t got nothing for you). Fourth?! Yikes. So they’d leave. MORE >>

Marshall Kirkpatrick talked about aggregation and filtering several years ago in How to Build an RSS and Blog News Site for Your Project where he had cobbled together a solution using Google Blog Search,  dapper, Feed Digest, PostRank, Roller, and others.  You likely are already using an RSS Reader to subscribe to various sources.  IceRocket – real-time search against blogs, twitter, myspace, news, images, Twitter List to RSS – allows you to create an RSS feed from a list of twitter users. RSS Mesh. PostRank – Likely the best known of these tools.  MORE >>

Bloggers everywhere need to rethink their approaches: display advertising needs reinvention: who’s it working for? As a blogger, you need to make some serious strategic calls on where to put your focus because content-making is heavy going. Most recently, I’ve been working with Kleenex Mums to help build a blogger-centric online community. was on a panel recently at the Aussie Bloggers Conference. One of the questions that Sarah Pietrzak asked was, “What should brands expect of bloggers and where do you see this relationship going?”. Old models are struggling. MORE >>

This is because the contributing bloggers are all remarkable women, and I am truly lucky to be able to see life through their eyes. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. find that even though I am busy, I meet really great people who get it on blogs that have active bloggers who are passionate about life and whatever content they are expert in. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. And I try, as much as possible, to let their voices come through; as a result, my editing is usually minimal. MORE >>

Walking the transparency talk I WAS going to write about something to do with online integrity, but, like many well-meaning bloggers, I got side-tracked by my Twitter feed. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Thanks to Shelly Kramer for sharing Etsys updated policy change following the publicity surrounding this issue. Since Steffs original post is still pertinent in the lessons learned, I hope youll take a moment to read it.] Seems simple enough, right? MORE >>