blogging: Free Professional Photographs and Images – Largest Collection in the World Completely Free to use – Huge News for Bloggers etc - 05/21/09 10:25 AM
I just came across the announcement that Fotolia is offering completely free professional photos and images to anyone through a new site called PhotoExpress. This is the first time I have ever heard of such a large website offering free images to use. There are no strings attached either other than proper attribution and I would hope that you wouldn’t be trying to pass off these images as your own.
It’s easy to sign up just go to the site and register. At first you get 3 photos per day but just fill in your profile for more. There’s no … (5 comments)
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blogging: Growing Your Blog Through Your Readers? - 05/02/09 08:30 PM
There is a very good article over at Tech Crunch that I think every blogger should read if they are interested in having more readers, not only that there are some great suggestions on how your readers can get more out of your blog and how you can get more out of them. This is a very interesting read with some great ideas here.
Some of the things that stick out to me are of course analytics because without knowing who is reading your blog and what it’s hard to get direction and speaking of direction some other great ideas … (4 comments)
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blogging: Content Stealing Jerks - 03/29/09 02:01 PM
Content stealing jerks.That’s an interesting way to put it. You know those people that copy and paste your life blood. Those sweat and tear soaked articles you work so hard for and at the click of a few buttons someone else is getting credit. Some of these people are so bad at stealing they leave your name or a link to your website. Others aren’t quite that lazy and try to edit it just enough to remove any traces as to who wrote it or they add their name at the end.
And just so it’s clear that I am not … (9 comments)
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blogging: Why Linking to Your Blog(s) From Your Website is Good SEO and not Doing so is Bad - 03/28/09 12:11 PM
Ok I thought this sort of speculation was a thing of the past because so many SEO websites, gurus, and bloggers have covered this topic that I guess I thought everyone knew the answer but it seems not everyone knows so I will try to cover the topic. The question?
Does Google discount reciprocal linking or is having a link from your website to your blog bad for SEO?
Ok I am going to answer this question in a number of ways because there are a variety of reasons this is just a bad idea. Some people have been suggesting … (9 comments)
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blogging: Iconic Obama Painter Being Sued by the AP—Linking to AP Stories Can Get You Sued! - 02/05/09 10:51 AM
I am sure everyone is pretty familiar with the iconic image of now President Obama that was painted by Shepard Fairey. Well apparently the AP (Associated Press) figured out that the original photograph is theirs and now are trying to sue the pants off Shepard Fairey for his original artwork. One thing you should know is that Fairey never made a penny off his work that he freely distributed and that others have made millions from. This is really an issue of corporate America versus the people and we as the people need to stand up to this sort of … (5 comments)
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blogging: Firefox Turned Into a Blogging Machine! - 02/04/09 08:03 PM
If you like Firefox and like blogging then you have to check this out! There is a huge list of tools that make blogging even easier. There is a cool tool to scrap book stuff that you see as you are browsing (I know I would like that feature) and even ways to syndicate your content using various social networking tools. Honestly if you use Firefox already this would be a no brainer. Make sure you check it out!
Make sure to check out my Eau Claire Real Estate Agent website!
If you have something to say please … (7 comments)
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blogging: Blogging and Plagiarizing: Christian Author of “God” Done Got Busted - 01/07/09 09:49 AM
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Apparently best selling author, Neale Walsch, wrote a simple anecdote in his blog as if it happened to him and his child except it didn't happen to him it happened to someone else and on top of that this very same anecdote was already published as well! Not only did he try to pass it off as his own, after being caught red handed, “he was “truly mystified” about what happened and apologized. He said he had been telling the story for years in public talks and “somewhere along the way, internalized it as my … (9 comments)
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blogging: Want free Active Rain points? Updated! - 10/27/08 08:35 PM
Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate I have seen several people wondering why some blog posts earn 200 and others earn 225. Well this has been answered a few times by the AR staff and I think other people. Brad Andersohn officially announced the Channels features here.
The extra 25 points is earned when you put your posts in the new Channels. I think they just want everyone to be putting their posts there and maybe in the future they might remove the old method of posting, time will tell. I promised a while back I would write a long … (17 comments)
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blogging: Social Networks Exploding!! Are You a Part of This? - 10/27/08 12:37 PM
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Many of us who have embraced social networks and have incorporated them into our business models have been eye witnesses to their popularity. I dont know what percent of the US population is a part of them but I imagine that the numbers are staggering. Likewise the people using them know how popular they are but the people who dont can only guess as to what the rest of us are up to!
The reasons for the popularity are many. At first they were probably just a mere fad and … (4 comments)
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blogging: Security Release for Word Press Blogs: Update Now Available - 10/24/08 11:14 AM
Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Agent Realtor® Shane O'Gorman Version 2.6.3 of Word Press has just been released. If you use this blogging platform it is recommended that you update immediately.
October 23, 2008 WordPress 2.6.3 By Ryan. Filed under Releases.
A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. Although this seems to be a low risk vulnerability for WordPress users, we wanted to get an update out immediately. 2.6.3 is available for download right now. If … (0 comments)
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blogging: Duplicate content. Everyone is talking about it. What if everyone is just wrong? Why not ask Google? - 10/21/08 02:23 PM
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I saw this article today when I was digging a little deeper into something I posted in a blog earlier. I know I have seen a lot of people talking about duplicate content. I have even seen dire warnings saying if you duplicate content your site is DOOMED! I have seen posts saying that your site could even be deindexed for duplicating too much content. I have also seen posts that state duplicating content will lower your page rank! Well darn it all to heck... what is the truth?
Why not ask Google?
Dear Google … (39 comments)
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blogging: Social network addicts look out! Motorola has something for you! Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Agent & Realtor® Shane O'Gorman - 10/20/08 02:54 PM
Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate with Agent and Realtor® Shane O'Gorman I originally posted this in my Eau Claire Wisconsin real estate blog. I have written numerous articles about the upcoming Google Android platform, including its first release. It is finally here and will take on many forms. It seems Motorola has put a new twist on its release by adding some unique social networking features. So far we will have to wait but there is quite a bit of speculation. Check this out.
Report: Motorola planning to join the social with Android (Updated) By David … (0 comments)
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blogging: Useful tool for Blogger's? Check this out! Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Agent Realtor® Shane O'Gorman - 10/09/08 01:39 PM
Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Agent Realtor® Shane O'Gorman I came across this article today and thought it migght be useful for people in the blogging community.
The web went social long ago with such wonderful advancements as e-mail and, more recently, communities like Delicious. As a natural evolution of these practices, new services allow users to research and annotate the web in a social environment, and Reframe It is the newest kid on the block.
Like so many other services that offer to augment or otherwise aggregate the web into a community, Reframe It … (8 comments)
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blogging: 200 profile views in 2 days. How can it be done? I have the answer now! Eau Claire Wisconsin real estate agent Realtor® Shane O'Gorman - 10/03/08 01:45 PM
Eau Claire Wisconsin real estate agent realtor Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Agent & Realtor® Shane O'Gorman I recently made a post saying how I had gotten over 100 people looking at my profile in a single day. I honestly wrote it because I was just wondering how or why it was happening. I thought it was weird because I have only been here a short time and I have seen several other people commenting that it had taken a year or longer for them to get 1000 profile views or any number like that.
I was just taking a look … (5 comments)
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blogging: How do you get 100 people to look at your profile in a day? Eau Claire Wisconsin real estate agent Realtor® Shane O'Gorman - 10/02/08 02:54 PM
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How do you get 100 people to look at your profile in a day? Eau Claire Wisconsin real estate agent Realtor® Shane O'Gorman
Seriously how does it happen?
Yesterday I was looking andt was like 700 and I was thinking that was quite a lot. I have only been here for less than 3 months. I have seen posts saying that they finally broke the milestone of having 1000 profile views after a year or so.
Why are so many people looking at me!!
(Stop looking … (3 comments)
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blogging: Oh no! Not another social network to join! Eau Claire real estate agent Shane O’Gorman - 09/29/08 08:42 PM
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Oh yes! There never seems to be an end to the number of social networking sites available and since you never know where your customers might come from or what their interests are, it never hurts to get your presence everywhere.
Enter from stage right NPR(That’s National Public Radio)
NPR adds social networking to Web site Boosting its overall digital initiatives to capture, retain audiences By Anick Jesdanun
NEW YORK - National Public Radio, already strong online with free downloads from many of its shows, is boosting its digital ambitions with Monday's introduction … (5 comments)
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blogging: The love/hate relationship of F-Bombs by Eau Claire Wisconsin real estate agent Shane O’Gorman - 09/29/08 02:20 PM
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(Not those f-bombs)
is for phony
Everyone hates a phony. From being disingenuous in your advertising to your writing and blogging, people just don’t like a phony. You don’t have to brag about being the top salesperson. In fact, no one likes a braggart either! I like coming across as a normal, average person. I think of myself as a nice person and that’s the image I am constantly trying to project. Of course being the top salesperson probably says a lot about your … (0 comments)
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blogging: The power of writing good comments-Eau Claire Wisconsin real estate agent Shane O'Gorman - 09/29/08 12:56 PM
Getting featured in a national newspaper!
And hopefully on Active Rain… (wink wink nudge nudge)
I got a call on my phone on Friday and I was sort of taken back because the caller ID said Star Tribune. I thought for sure it was going to be some sort of solicitation. Little did I know it was! The Minneapolis paper wanted to interview little ol’ me about a single comment I had made on this post.
I actually waited until today to say anything because I thought for sure it just wasn’t true. I just started on Active … (4 comments)
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blogging: Putting a face on the faceless--Does it keep you from speaking your mind? by Eau Claire Real Estate Agent Shane O'Gorman - 09/24/08 01:01 PM
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For those of you new to blogging or using online forums or just being online in general, being faceless can often bring out the devil in everyone. I saw this recent article and immediately thought about the blogging community as a whole.
Anonymity opens up split personality zone
Faceless communication online or over phone often turns nice people nasty
By Diane Mapes
MSNBC contributor
updated 7:50 a.m. CT, Wed., Sept. 24, 2008
One minute, they’re nice, normal people. The next, they’re frothing at the mouse.
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blogging: Eau Claire Wisconsin real estate agent and realtor Shane O'Gorman blogs - 09/23/08 08:34 PM
Find out why I love Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate at Your Chippewa Valley Home.
I love to write about real estate. I can’t lie. Sometimes in my blog I expand to other subjects like technology or what’s happening in the news lately. I guess I just love to write. It really gives me a chance to express myself and speak out as a professional about the local real estate market.
If you like what I have to say you can check out my Eau Claire real estate blog at www.BlogEauClaire.com
If you have something to say please leave … (0 comments)
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