Well, much to my chagrin, I just saw that PRNews is offering  Google+ training for $329. The first thing you want to do is create a Google profile, if you don’t already have one. Go to  Google Profiles , sign into your Gmail account, and click on the edit profile button. Google+ is set up with what they call Circles. Once you get into Google+, you’ll see how easy it is to add people to your circles. Chris Penn has a  fantastic blog post about how to measure traffic to your web site or blog from Google+. This is so disappointing to me. or su.pr MORE >>

It goes without saying that people enjoy commenting here, and I enjoy interacting with them. But some comments never make it past my Akismet spam filter. Here are some examples of comments you should never write (with embedded links removed): 1. The vague comment. The misspelled gratifying comment. The unapplicable comment. The buy this comment. The big paragraph and unrelated link at end comment. The unrelated comment. The uncomprehensible comment. The too good to be real comment. To Moderate Blog Comments or Not. MORE >>

Home About Me Charities 12for12k Kiva Work With Me About This Blog Disclosure Comment Policy Headway Archives Contact Me Great Blogs Why I’m Loving the Livefyre Comments System September 15, 2010 67 voices share yours! Share 1 save Regular readers of this blog will have noticed the introduction of the Livefyre comment system. While I’ve written in the past about my reasons to go back to the WordPress comments system , I saw Livefyre in use on a couple of blogs I enjoy and was intrigued enough to check the system out. Where are the comments stored? MORE >>

Google+ Pages are available for your company or organization. Write one short post, maybe along these lines : Thanks for “circling” our Google+ Page. After you do that, then you’re ready to start thinking about how you’ll use Google+. If you’re really hungry to learn more (aren’t we all), here are some great starter points: 7 Things to Know About Google+ for Pages. Google+ Pages Now Open for Business, Brands, Places and more. How to Create a Google+ Page for Business. Consider leaving a comment! MORE >>

If you’re a regular reader of the blog, you’ll notice that I’ve switched the Livefyre commenting system back on, after using the vanilla WordPress option for the last few months. was one of the early beta users of the system, and loved the way it took blog commenting and turned it into a real-time chat (as this experiment and the subsequent results show). This is what the CommentLuv plug-in offers – the option for anyone leaving a comment to have their last post visible as a link back to their blog. Insights blog comments livefyreNot any more. MORE >>