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12 Ways To Make Your WordPress Blog Cleaner And Cuter

Waxing UnLyrical

A Better Blogroll If you like highlighting other bloggers on your site via a blogroll, you will probably find that as you add more and more to them, it becomes a huuge list. Try the Better Blogroll plugin. All you have to do is go to your Categories widget, and select the option to “show as dropdown.&#

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An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News.

Adam Sherk

The Huffington Post The Huffington Post has added a “Hot on Facebook” module to its home page and in a sidebar on posts: I like this and think it will do a good job of encouraging user clicks, similar to the Digg widget that has worked well on news sites. Seeing that stories have been liked thousands of times certainly caught my interest.

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I Will Not Write About Old Spice

Adam Cohen

a thousand cuts :: adam cohen's blog About Blogroll Contact a thousand cuts conversations about social media and interactive marketing by adam cohen 16 JUL I Will Not Write About Old Spice Posted by: adam / Tags: Advertising , Isaiah Mustafa , Old Spice , Social Media , Television , YouTube / Comments: View Comments I will resist the urge.

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Social Media Chat Tuesday, July 21st

Adam Cohen

This weblog does not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans or strategies of my employer or clients.

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How I Set Up My WordPress Blog In 2 Hours

Waxing UnLyrical

I set up a basic blogroll, a Twitter widget, a short “About&# page as well as a “© and Stuff&# page. I set up Platinum SEO (instead of All in One SEO, I like Platinum better) and even WPTouch so that it can be viewed on a mobile device. (By

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eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Start Pages as Environments for Self-Organized Learners

Buzz Marketing for Technology

What I like most is the combination of RSS feeds, bookmarks and widgets in one tab (section) according to a context. Each channel is implemented with existing components, including html and link components and widgets. because of these features: * Canvas view support: allows the easy development of powerful full-page widgets.

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Blog Design for ROI Rule #6: KISS Headers, Navigation, and Sidebars

ProBlogger

Considering the popularity of widgets (typically styled sidebar boxes like the one above) in the world of WordPress blog design, I’m probably not the only one prioritizing the sidebar over the main content. Takeaway #2: Don’t distract visitors with long blogrolls, loads of award badges and other unruly sidebar features.

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