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Creating A Video Section On Your WordPress Blog

by Jon Bishop on October 5, 2009

in Blogging, How To

Adding Video To Your Sidebar

Awhile back I decided to start posting videos on my blog. Once I had a few videos up I began to rethink my approach. Ultimately I wanted to prevent videos from showing up where normal posts are displayed and instead display my most recent video in the sidebar.
To do this, I would need to:

Suppress all video posts [...]

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How To Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

by Jon Bishop on August 7, 2009

in Blogging, How To

Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

A WordPress blog is an easy way to establish a dynamic online presence however it’s also very easy to get trigger happy with plugins and themes that ultimately slow down your websites loading time. Here’s a quick little checklist to help improve your blogs performance.

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AddThis

(Note: This code is meant to be put in your Wordpress Template. However, it should be easy to modify it for other uses.)
Awhile back, I tweeted about how I wasn’t a huge fan of the AddThis button and I felt the need for more actionable social sharing buttons. That led to a few conversations with [...]

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Who Are You Following on Twitter?

by Jon Bishop on March 12, 2009

in How To, Social Media, Twitter

Who I Follow On Twitter

I talked a little about my Twitter following strategy back in a previous post but I wanted to expand a bit.
First you should know I am a very active follower. I take recommendations very seriously as well as any incoming replies.
Then there is my ’social media’ inbox. I’ve basically just set my GMail to move [...]

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My TweetGrid

by Jon Bishop on March 9, 2009

in How To, Internet Marketing, Social Media, Twitter

I love talking to people about the tools they are using to efficiently track conversations in social media. Everybody has there own methods they’ve developed over time and their own goals they wish to achieve.
Most of my Tweeting revolves around TweetGrid and Twhirl. TweetGrid always seems to catch my new replies a split second before [...]

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Twitter Metrics

by Jon Bishop on March 9, 2009

in How To, Twitter, Video Post

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Rules of the Retweet

by Jon Bishop on February 18, 2009

in How To, Social Media, Twitter

Rules of Retweeting

The ReTweet plays a pivotal role in the viral capabilities of Twitter. I’m not going to get into all the viral sciences of Twitter because Dan Zarrella is already doing that. Instead I want to discuss some basic simple rules that can encourage the ReTweeting of your Tweets.
1) Keep It Short
I usually keep it less [...]

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