LifeIO, A Dashboard For Your Online Life

Does the world really need another social media dashboard? That’s what I asked myself as I signed up for LifeIO, an online application that promises ‘my life, my way’.
Getting Started
Once you have an account, the best place to start is with the settings tab, where you can edit your profile, change the theme of your […]

Does Your Blog Pass The ‘So What’ Test?

So what? A long time ago I was told that if you wrote something and readers said ’so what?’ then you had failed. I think the same is true of blogging. Your blog may have bells and whistles, but what do readers really think?
Shiny Intro Page, So What?
Sometimes it’s tempting to go for the latest […]

TwitTangle Tries To Declutter Twitter

If you have a Twitter account to go along with your blog, sooner or later you’ll get to the point where you can’t keep up with all your followers any more. TwitTangle offers one way to sort them out.
To get started, login with your Twitter credentials. The application will take you to your Twitter profile […]

My Essentials For Blogging On The Move

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As a location independent freelance blogger, I often have to keep up with my blogging schedule while on the move. As of today, that consists of:

two posts a week on a travel blog
one post a week on a blog about blogging
five posts every so often for a blog about new things on […]

Three Key Places To Promote Your Blog

If you only had to pick three social media/networking sites to promote your blog, which ones would you pick? With new social media and social networking sites springing up every day, it’s sometimes tempting to think that you should belong to all of them.
Since I love shiny new web stuff, I sign up for most […]