WordPress 3.4 – Going ‘Green’

WordPress 3.4 Green

Unless you live in a remote cave or have been on an extended vacation on Mars, you probably know that WordPress 3.4, also known as ‘Green,’ was released last week. A lot of under-the-hood work has made it faster and better, but  WordPress users are talking about a few cool features in particular.

Get Your Livefyre Commenting System Walk-through

Livefyre Commenting System

Here at For Bloggers, By Bloggers, we have talked a lot about Livefyre, our preferred commenting system.  And we proudly use it here on this blog. If you compare Livefyre to the WordPress vanilla commenting system, social sharing and realtime conversations are only two of the reasons to use Livefyre to turn your readers and [...]

Is Twitter Helping or Hurting Your Blog?

Is Twitter Hurting Your Blog?

Call me old fashioned, but I’m still a Twitter junkie. I laugh at recent comments about its pending death. Ask a person involved in any of the recent conflicts around our world if they think Twitter is helpful? We may use it differently now, but I do not believe it is going away anytime soon. [...]

Tweet, Tweet: A Simple Twitter Strategy For Your Blog

Twitter strategy

Twitter is all the rage! This little 140 character microblogging platform has become a driving force in Social Media these days. With 460,000 accounts created in February of this year and over 1 billion tweets sent each week – Twitter is huge, REALLY huge. Why? Because it works. Whether you run a personal or some [...]

What Super Mario Bros Taught Me About Blogging

Super Mario Bros

I love video games. I’ve been playing them for most of my life and it’s nearly impossible to talk about the pure awesomeness of video games without talking about the Italian grand-daddy of popular platform games. With dozens of official versions and probably hundreds of unofficial ones spanning almost three decades, it’s safe to say [...]

5 Things @winecountrydog Taught Me About Social Media Branding

Welsh Corgi

Did you ever have an in-person meet-up with someone you’d first met on Twitter? And then they got tired and they took a little nap—under the table? Yeah, sounds like a bad bar tale, doesn’t it? But it happened to me. About 2 years ago, I met an amazing dog on Twitter. I became an [...]

Blogging And The Way Of The Dandelion

dandelion

It become apparent to me over the weekend that I was definitely losing the battle for control of my yard to the weeds. Even though weeds aren’t the most welcomed or popular things to appear in a yard, it got me thinking about how in essence we want our messages and blogs to spread like [...]

Tweet First, Blog Later

tweet first

The reason I say so is because they should eliminate the mindset that “you can get a Gazillion traffic off Twitter“. Sure, you can get traffic from Twitter but it requires you to engage with your followers first before you spam the hell out of them with links to your blog or website. I had [...]

7 Ways to Use Your Blog as a Lab, Even if You Sucked at Science

boy scientist

I confess. I am a random creative, about as right-brained as you can get. In high school, I aced the verbal section of the SAT’s. But man, I hated the math and science questions. You know, the ones like: Tom is taller than Max. Max is shorter than James. James is shorter than Don. What [...]