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Copywriting Tip: Have the Computer Read Your Writing Back To You

16. July 2009

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Copywriting Tip: Have the Computer Read Your Writing Back To You

We write all the time: email, blogs, IMs, Tweets, etc. While it’s okay most of the time to write informally and conversationally in these mediums, it’s still good not to make obvious mistakes. A common tip for editing and proofreading your writing is to have someone else read your work aloud to you.  It’s easy [...]

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WordPress Help: A Beginner’s Guide to Inserting Images into Posts

21. May 2009

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WordPress Help: A Beginner’s Guide to Inserting Images into Posts

WordPress ships with a WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) editor that makes authoring posts and pages relatively simple. Nevertheless, the WordPress editor can be a little confusing for first time users, so this will be the first in a series of posts to help first time WordPress authors quickly learn the basics. [...]

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Scheduling Posts in WordPress for Maximum Exposure

15. April 2009

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Scheduling Posts in WordPress for Maximum Exposure

WordPress makes it relatively easy to schedule when your posts are published. But the first time you schedule a post, it is easy to get tripped up, resulting in the post not going live when you want it to, or worse, not going live at all. The tips below should help you avoid WordPress scheduling [...]

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Why We Love WordPress

26. March 2009

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Why We Love WordPress

What is WordPress? WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org) is a powerful open source content management system (CMS) and blogging engine. WordPress is arguably the most popular web publishing platform on the planet; it powers ChirpUp.com and millions of other websites. Open Source WordPress is open source software. This means that you can use it with no licensing costs.  [...]

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