Engagement is more than just setting up a blog and letting viewers post comments; it's more than just having a Facebook profile and having others write on your wall. It's also about keeping your blog content fresh and replying to comments; it's building your friends network and updating your profile status. Don't just check the box; engage with your customer audience. — Charlene Li | 19 Blogs You Should Bookmark – Inc.com

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What a great option for WordPress users. I have incorporated After the Deadline into my own blogging workflow for the wujimon taiji blog.

I will compose my post in Windows Live Writer. Afterwards, I will upload the post as a draft to my blog. I will let the post marinate for about a day or so before proofreading with After the Deadline.

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If you ever wanted to get into podcasting but didn’t know where to start, check out the link above for the Hivelogic Podcasting Equipment Guide [via].

Anyone could easily start off with the “Beginner” hardware and software since most of us either already have the equipment or the items are free. I would highly recommend all podcasters use the Levelator software. This software corrects one of my biggest pet peeves.

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To do this before,  I would have had to use a third party service like TwitterFeed.  While TwitterFeed is easy to configure for people who have been around social media and internet culture, it’s not for the feint of heart. I learned this the hard way by walking a blogging buddy of mine through the process, which took about 1 hour over skype.

All I can say is the WordPress.com ROCKS!

There have been a number of new platforms popping up recently that claim to increase your user engagement, get you more comments, increase your traffic, and more, through means that I consider short-sighted and harmful. Since people seem not to mind, I thought I’d write a guide for how to increase the number of comments you get by 400-1,000% and ruin whatever shred of community you had on your site.

Matt outlines 6 steps and provides a couple of bonus pointers! One of my main pet peeves in regards to commenting is forcing people to sign-up. If I need to sign up to something to comment, I will just not comment. It’s all about lowering the barriers of entry

One of the smartest people I’ve ever met, Maciej Cegłowski, says you shouldn’t self-host web-based software like WordPress or Fever or eventually, Google Wave, because it requires you to “devote half your life to learning and understanding [server] administration.” Go with a hosted service …

However, now that I have moved back to self hosting the wujimon taiji blog, I have spent an inordinate amount of time finding/tweaking theme, looking for widgets, etc etc. I think there’s an issue if you spend ALL OF A FRIDAY NIGHT working on a website!

There is a very simple answer out there to those who want to publish content but don’t know where the start. That answer is Posterous. If you know how to compose an email, then you know how to use Posterous. Give it a try! All you have to do is send an email to post@posterous.com. The subject of the email will be the title of the post and the body of the email will be the content. You can embed photos, insert youtube links, insert mp3 links, etc and Posterous handles the rest. Easy, eh?
Posted in Blogging ]]> http://iwujimon.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/easily-publish-content-with-posterous/feed/ 0 wujimon http://iwujimon.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/security-alert-upgrade-to-latest-version-of-wordpress/ http://iwujimon.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/security-alert-upgrade-to-latest-version-of-wordpress/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:52:56 +0000 wujimon http://wujimon.com/security-alert-upgrade-to-latest-version-of-wordpress ]]> It seems that old versions of wordpress are under attack.  If you have a self-hosted version of wordpress (ie, your blog is not on the wordpress.com service) make sure you have the most recent release 2.8.4.  Ahh.. the joys of maintaining a self hosted blog. The good thing is that upgrading is pretty easy with 2.8 and beyond.  For more, check out: How to Keep WordPress Secure.