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These blogging hacks may come in handy... Ten Blogging Hacks - Surely by the lack of my own posts recently, I need to study this link a little more myself. (Very busy 'off-the-web' - hope to be back blogging soon!)

Labels: blog, blogging, fyi, hacks, web

Earn a quick 7.50 right now. You heard me right.. $7.50 for doing what you like to do.. play on the internet.

That's what we do out here right? Surf.. search.. write, blog -- all of it is sooooogood. So now, I am here to give you an opportunity to enjoy youself here even more. How could this be possible? Who am I to offer such fanfare you say? Lucky for you I know a few people (I'll *giggle* a little to myself here because if you haven't heard about PayPerPost I'd say - "Okay, let me please introduce you." If you have, "Let me please reintroduce you..." Today, you and I both can earn a quick $7.50. Every time someone new signs up to review one of your posts, like you will do with mine, PayPerPost pays out $15.00 for the two posties to share! Today, that is you, and me! :) I'm also in this game to create more links (techies:backlinks) to this website and as a bonus, you can create links and backlinks to YOURS - so hear hear! get started by reviewing one of my posts asap! PayPerPost sign-up is fast and easy. You can say whatever you like, it can even be bad (oh the horror!).. either way, its just P(l)ay P(l)ay P(l)ay! \\^_^//. Don't be surprised when I say you'll be surprised how quickly it adds up; and PayPerPost offers many opportunities which will fit within your style. I'm a happier blogger knowing some of my posts earn cash! All this while retaining mt integrity and blogging about what I enjoy - technology, photography and the web; why aren't there more companies like this one?!! (If I find any I'll be sure to let you know - *hint* check back on my disclosure policy page). Now I won't banter any longer because I know you want to get started right away... Click on the beautiful blue button at the bottom of one of my posts - you'll be glad you helped increase blog traffic to my site, and also to your own. Double Happy Blogging and thank you! for your review... Now get goin' ;-)

Labels: blog, business, disclosure-policy, marketing, PayPerPost, web

Why do you blog? If you're like most bloggers, you have a passion about something and you like to write or keep track of whatever it is that makes your banana yellow.

Here's the thing - the blog is fun - but eventually, you want more or your blog will die. *sniff* My blog has reached a Google Page Rank of three (3) - which I'll admit is not fantastic but it does qualify me to make a bit of extra doh just by pasting up a little bit of extra code and making some qualified reviews. If I (or you) have a 6 or 7 (up to 10) PR (for those of you unaware, these are high traffic blogs) - the payouts which become available are now quite large! $45.00, $100.00, even a $1000.00 per post payout can be earned :-0 ! So I'm here to help spread the word. This new segmentation system from PayPerPost (PPP) awards popular bloggers with large opportunities (of course the little gal like me still gets a buck or two) for all the time they (we/I) have spent building said blogs. Now, when you sign up using the blog ad network on PayPerPost, you can make some doh too! [note: hopefully you will use the network as I do - posting only relevant content to your blog (although you must have a disclosure policy no matter which way you do it)]. I've already made $20.61 - with three posts and this post will bring my total to 35.61 -- I'm buying a new pair of yellow jeans. :-P

Labels: blog, business, disclosure-policy, marketing, PayPerPost

AdsBay Auctions, Buy and Sell your Ad Space has a free javascript online calculator to estimate the value of adspace on your website.

Yesterday I ran this Website (The Robin-Ann.com Web & World) and came up with a figure over $8.00/month for a sitewide graphic based ad pretty much anywhere on the page along with 10+ ads and I used Technology as the target market. Today I'm getting $0.00 figures but I'm not convinced so I'm giving it another few tries.

Okay, the new figure is up to $7.88/month - a number I saw yesterday in addition to the eight dollar figure. I'm going to run some additional tests on other sites I manage to see what other types of revenue I can expect.

Even though this is the third generation of the calculator, I think they are still working out the bugs because yesterday I ran into some php errors and timeouts similar to server overload, but that happens on the best of sites so no points lost in my book.

This calculator will be a good place to direct anyone wishing to advertise on my site, and your site too! I haven't seen anying like this anywhere else on the web and it seems like (they claim) it really works! Hmmmm, I'd think the figure would be higher but I don't think that is thier fault... ;-) + *smirk*

While I'm on this tangent I started thinking about my site and the links I have positioned in obvious and conspicuous places. They are there of course for me to be able to access my 'toys' easily but this calculator has got me to thinking... I 'should' be getting paid by Blogger, Technorati, MyBlogLog and Microsoft! ...I have some text links too but I haven't given those the cost analysis yet. Needless to say - I haven't seen any checks from any of them, but the free services they provide me I think more than make up the difference.

The calculator link is Adsbay's Link & Ad Price Calculator. You can read more on thier blog too. Even if it's just to satisfy your own curiosity -- I'd suggest you give it a try :)! I hope you make a million!

Labels: blog, disclosure-policy, free, goodies, marketing

My favorite widget (Okay, hold on -- realize there are only two listed on the site right now so my choices are a bit slim so haha!) is the 'Recent Readers'. At first I thought it did not fit into the context of my blog; the more I visited MyBlogLog, the more I visited other members with the widget blogroll on thier own site, the more I wanted to see this on my site too! It's a fun reference link to readers and also a great way to keep your new connections fresh. I want more widgets!

I am always learning online (most of my html experience etc) - I suppose this is my new venue. Google has always been my poison of choice but then again - I was (and still am) always looking for something specific. I just started using the search function which is quite useful to search for your interests. I'd like to see the profile page expanded out a bit to make the search more useful. I did a search for photography and came up with 110 Communities - which I was not incuded - hmmm. I changed my Short description to read the word photography and BOOM! There I am - now on the searched list.. Make that 111 :)

There should be an option to expand the page to show the communities at 50,100,all etc and a mouseover to give a little more information about where you may click. This little script is found on many popular websites.. I'll have a list of my favorites on Tuesday.

I'm sure I can come up with more, I'll have to make a Wishlist 2...

Labels: blog, communities, MyBlogLog, Web Development

While attending to one of my favorite pastimes... Web-Surfing, I came accross a website offering free web stats called Clicky Web Statistics.

The site is in beta so they are offering free services until launch. I signed up for an account and will have further review of my results and interactions with them - but I have to say the sign-up was quite painless and a little javascript insert to begin taking stats is just like Technorati and MyBlogLog and probably a boatload of similar websites will ask you to do.

I am looking forward to the results, it is always fun to see the who/what/when/where and how... Now if there only a tool for why...?

Labels: beta, blog, disclosure-policy, free, marketing, MyBlogLog

I cannot rave enough about the community of MyBlogLog.

Have you had to good fortune to have a compliment thrown your way? The world needs more of these! Have you made a connection (or several) where you have benefited directly? It's the new linkedin! Have you learned a thing or two from MyBlogLog's linked websites? Hello E-Learning!

The connections made, the goodwill passed from one member to the next, the diversity of the membership... MyBlogLog is wonderful trip throughout the globe; not to mention a fantastic way to connect big with terms you decide, not what a search algorithm has decided for you.

I want to thank all my friends, contacts and potential/new users of MyBlogLog for visiting and contributing to my greater good. And if your not at MyBlogLog yet... your really should be.

Labels: blog, communities, e-learning, linkedin, marketing, MyBlogLog

Not a pretty site yesterday -- After several attempts, I finally gave up and sent a file via FTP which I had edited manually (-ew!) and went home. I left blogger to do its dirty-work (hoping it would do nothing) and found my blog this morning looking like a drunk the morning after. Luckily - I was able to republish this morning and it's all back to normal. Sorry to anyone who had to view the mess!

Labels: beta, blog, blogger, google

rEAL dIFFICULTIES REPUBLISHING right now.

Labels: beta, blog, blogger, google

I really am defining my website with the topic labels, Thank you(!) blogger-beta for the update as it helps with the 'niche marketing' everyone is blogging about. Niche Marketing... hmmm - what does this mean to you?

My Website Motto is: "* Robin-Ann.com * Professional Web and Photographic Content :: We Care About Your {+Photo +Web +Mobile +HTML} Image" Shall this be considered an Artists blog then? ...and tho' I am a Professional Photographer and also a Webmaster (loosley translated 'btw'), I would really have to consider myself a Professional Artist - so appropriate content will follow! This is a digital Art link - fun for anyone not nescessarily an artist - or those artists too busy to make something 'on-a-whim' or 'on-the-fly' - heh.
http://www.imagechef.com - touting:"..modify text in a variety of image templates to create professional quality images with your own personal touch." Real Fun! Now have fun :)

Labels: art, blog, blogger, marketing, Web Development

In my last blog post I asked, “What good is a blog anyway?” The title is a little harsh now in retrospect - but maybe since, I have given serious thought to the benefits of blogging – and now there are so many! Here is the first in my new series on "What good is blog anyway?

Reason #1 - Seek, Search and find treasure in Blogs -- Over the weekend, I was directed to and found a very useful (and hopefully also very fortuitous) blog about the 2007 CES Conference -- which was presented to me from my search terms "need" and "photographer" through the new swamii.com search engine website -- which a review was posted to the TechCrunch network --- which was fed to me through my mobile phone’s mini-rss application -- which I found while researching RSS tools -- which were posted on blogs. Start to finish - with many tools in between were... you guessed it -- blogs!

The conference looks very exciting and I hope to attend. Also, I may have landed in a field of strawberries. For those of you, who do not like strawberries, imagine yourself landing in a warm fuzzy or something like that.

All this treasure was sorted out from a blog. If you read my post backwards, you will see how one blog started a cascade of fruitful events! I am in debt to blog. Thank you Thank you Thank you almighty blog.

If you get a chance check out all the great reviews and info on www.carrypad.com; the information will help you make an informed, educated purchase on your own UMPC – if you haven’t checked them out, maybe it is time you did.

Labels: blog, communities, mobile, RSS, technology, travel

Over a year and a half ago, (before blog became so mainstream), I wanted to list all the places I had visited for my own reference. And blogger and wordpress were about all that were making headlines then so into blogger I delved... Now this old idea has turned into bookmarking sites, ranks, how many blogs link here etc etc. So, Now I want to know - Who are you anyway? [Who are You on the Web?] and why should I link to you?

If you care to write to me you can do so to [bloglinks.at.robin-ann] @spamwhammy [.com] - I would like very much to know my readers, and potential links ;-).

Honestly, I link to things I find valuable. Not necessarily what is current or relevant or popular. And mainly, the links are for me. I hope someone (you) may also find them useful.. my main page tells all about me, so now you know what I like, maybe you like the same!

So here are todays (actually 10 or so's days worth of [I've been saving them on my mobile pc]) links:

BlogThis!

Download details .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Redistributable

FreewarePPC.com - Freeware Pocket PC PocketBlogger v1.3

Google Integrating Blog Posts Into Search Results - BoydCreative

Prepare your Windows Servers and Windows Mobile devices (and self) for timezone changes

PriceFight.com - Price Comparison Shopping, Product Reviews, and Store Ratings - Shop like a Champ

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Add Snap Previews to Any Site For Free

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » BiteMyPhoto - 2nd Easiest Photo Uploading Tool

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » BlueOrganizer 3.0 Instant Vertical Search and Tagging

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Mpire to Unveil Power-Shopping Plug-In

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » MyBlogLog to be Acquired by in Acquisition Discussions with Yahoo

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Remote Control Mail Check Your Postal Mail on the Web

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoos Brad Garlinghouse Makes His Power Move

voice to email

Marketing

A simple way to create 7 effective autoresponder messages

GameProducer.Net Archive How To Get People To Do What You Want

Interviewing Recruiting.com

Mike Colon Photographers, Newport Beach, Orange County, California

One way links are better than reciprocal links

Service Untitled » 2006 » April - customer service and customer service experience blog

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Web 1.0 Undead Rise AGLOCO

I'll probably elaborate on the impact of these links later... but for now, Enjoy!

P.S. OPML is an RSS bookmarking tool. Very cool and very useful - altho' sharing your OPML with others might make subscriptions easy to import but I question how much editing you would have to do when you get ALL those sites (from someone else's OPML file) into your already clogged reader (I imagine yours is as clogged as mine?).

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OPML, Technology, Research, Web Development, Bookmarks, Goodies, Web

Labels: blog, communities, marketing, web

YOUR TARGET: Conferences and Strategic Presentations

High speed and reasonably priced wireless connectivity are changing the way conferences and corporate meetings are conducted. Wireless LANs, with speeds typically in the hundreds of thousands of kilobits per second in real world environments and with pricing based upon long durations (rather than per minute or per packet), are ideally suited for use during public events and company meetings.

Adding Value

WLANs can add a great deal to your Sales and Marketing presentations. Your audience will obtain more information and you could generate much more give-and-take. Many web logs provide useful real-time updates. Information about your presentation could be posted as you are speaking. Give your PR person the responsibility of posting information about your presentation on your company's public Web site and/or intra net. He/She can also provide details about the questions as they are being asked. How rare!

Although the majority this Web section is about WLANs, there's no reason why the next-generation cellular networks now being implemented also couldn't be integrated for wireless connectivity in conferences and meetings. Currently, GSM GPRS cellular networks offer speeds of about 10K - 20K bps upstream from the handset to the Internet, and 20K bps - 30K bps downstream from the Internet to the handset. CDMA2000 1xRTT offers speeds typically of 40K bps - 60K bps. These data rates will be improved by a few 10s of kilobits per second over the next year, as the hardware and software are enhanced.

If cellular operators provide reasonable pricing -- which most have not done, so far -- speeds of 40K bps and above are indeed suitable for these purposes.

Speakers beware: Better skills required!

Many speakers might not want their audience to access the Internet. They're afraid the audience will ignore them and, instead, surf the Web, send and receive e-mail and transmit instant messages to other audience members like kids passing notes in school. They're right. So what?

If you're a good speaker, you don't have to worry. Wireless Internet access will be a benefit to you and your audience. If you're a rotten speaker, you deserve to be ignored. Indeed, people who have web logs, which enable virtually instantaneous updating of a Web site, have used WiFi connections to publicly complain about the boring panels and speakers. Yea to better conferences!

As more journalists begin using WiFi to post comments about speakers, there will be real-time research about what speakers are saying. In other words, if you are lying on stage, it's possible that someone in the audience could post your comments -- as you're speaking -- and receive feedback via e-mail about the veracity of your remarks.

These are some tips for a better educated, more informed presentation:

Post all your slides

How many times have you finished your slides at the last minute? You could post your slides on your Web site or alert your assistant/Webmaster/whomever to be on the lookout for your slides and to post them as soon as they arrive via e-mail. If you want to limit who sees the slides, set up a password and tell the audience. Also, you could set up a form requiring attendees to fill in some information about themselves: name, company, e-mail address, etc. It’s up to you how “open” you want access to be. Never again say, “Just give me your business card and I’ll send you my presentation.”

Post your new slides

How many times have you felt satisfied about giving conference organizers a copy of your presentation...which you then changed? Just post the slides you changed or added. Never again say, “I’m afraid you don’t have this slide in your workbook.”

Post supplementary slides

Would you like conference attendees to view other information that doesn’t fit into your presentation? Information that is somewhat of a digression, but useful? Information that is displayed on a complicated chart that’s difficult to read, but readable on a laptop computer? Never again say, “I know this slide is difficult to read.”

Post Speaker Notes

Post speaker notes or commentaries for your presentation: How about writing additional “bullet points” you want to ensure the audience remembers? You could post the entire presentation plus additional notes, just selected slides and notes or just the number or title of each slide and the notes.

Post bookmarks for companies mentioned

If you mention companies in your presentation and would like the audience to see those companies’ Web sites as you're speaking, post the links on your Web site. One tip: Ensure that each link opens in another Web page, so that your list of bookmarks remains displayed.

Encourage e-mail or instant messaging

Some audience members might feel more comfortable sending you a comment or a question via e-mail or instant messaging rather than raising their hand. Also, some people want to remain anonymous, especially if the question is controversial or would "give something away" to the competition.

Create a special web log for your presentation

E-blogs are personal publishing Web sites that are very easy and inexpensive for individuals to create. You may do all the editing from a Web-based interface or download client software to your desktop or notebook computer. Google has a terrific weblogging tool Blogger.com which integrates into your server seamlessly. Several web logs, including Weblogger and Radio Community Server serve up some interesting weblog/RSS information. Another blogging resource, the upcoming Blogging Conference Official Site / Zdnet.com Article in Melbourne, Australia may be just what you need. And if you just want to have fun, check out the BETA blog from MSN, MSN Spaces.

Any way you do it, blogging is the advent of this centuries share communication.

Labels: blog, blogger, blogging, communications, marketing, speaking, web, wireless, WLAN