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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

Socialized

My blog is on WordPress, which is very popular for its rich feature set, wide variety of (generally free) third-party plug-ins and themes, and ability to use widgets. WordPress.org is open source, and free. Many blogs include the ability to offer contact forms, polls, chat and other functionality. I currently use Cyberwurx.

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An Introduction to Using Images on Blogs

ProBlogger

GIMP : powerful open-source image editing software available for PC, Mac, and Linux. GIMP offers a comprehensive set of features for manipulating and editing images. It’s also important to follow the unwritten rule in the blogosphere of providing attribution when using images from other blogs.

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Services & Tools for Bloggers

The Marketing Blog

18 am Services & Tools for Bloggers Jump to Comments Ever since the philosophy of blogging has become popular a lot has happened in the blogosphere planet. The set of features and the level of functionality is in a slightly different context. Some of the features are quite cool. Services & Tools for Bloggers [.]

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Bloggers Flash Back to 2006 and Flash Forward to 2009

Diva Marketing Blog

What I love most about the blogosphere is the ability to find new and fresh voices - wonderful talented people from around the world you'd never know existed if it wasn't for their blogs. I’d also love to see more of what Google is doing with open social, making it easy for blogs or even non-blogs to add social networking features.

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Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Data Shows English Blogosphere Has Peaked » Sunday, February 25, 2007. Now, when I find something I want to save I use this feature and send it to a secret contact in my address book. Gmail does not have a to-do list feature - yet. We are now developing an open source "business application platform" (think salesforce.com).

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Hot on the heels of our two women bloggers sessions at the Brandon Hall conference , Janet Clarey points out that Zaids list of 25 Great Edublogs features only three women-- Cathy Moore (who joined us in our women who blog workshops), Jane Hart and Patricia Donaghy. Gender and Blogging and Top 25 Lists, Oh My!

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This article has been compiled after tracking recent conversations in the blogosphere and following social bookmarks. The structure, features and policies of most VLE implementations tend to perpetuate the traditional instructivist models of education. This diagram shows how PLEs are situated at the intersection of VLEs, Web 2.0

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