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May 29, 2007
- About Blogging - Tracking Your Blog in the Blogosphere
Our series About Blogging has moved to Tuesdays! (It still runs twice a month.) But don’t worry - Tackle It Tuesday hasn’t gone anywhere! They are just “sharing” the day. So click here or scroll down to find the latest Tackle It Tuesday.
Joining us us again this week is Jim Durbin of Durbin Media. Jim [...]
May 15, 2007
- About Blogging: Understanding Traffic
Our series About Blogging, has moved to Tuesdays! (It will still run twice a month.) But don’t worry - Tackle It Tuesday hasn’t gone anywhere! They are just “sharing” the day. So click here or scroll down to find the latest Tackle It Tuesday.
Today we are lucky enough to have Jim Durbin of Durbin Media [...]
April 30, 2007
- About Blogging: Carnivals, Memes and Mr. Linky
Today’s Guest Contributor for our About Blogging column is the wonderful Kailani of An Island Life. Kailani is the creator of the Carnival of Family of Life. With her expertise, we thought she would be the perfect blogger to walk you through an introduction to Carnivals, Memes and Mr. Linky. After reading her great post [...]
April 16, 2007
- About Blogging - Embedding Video, Music and Slideshows In A Blog
Due to the excitement over our new series About Blogging, we have decided to have the column run every other Monday, instead of just once a month.
Our first guest contributor, who will be a regular here for our About Blogging series, is Jim Durbin of Durbin Media. Jim is an expert blog consultant with [...]
April 5, 2007
- Presto – The Contest Your Offline Family Members Want You To Win!
Do you have a family member or friend who is offline and doesn’t have a computer or email at home? Do you have a grandparent to whom you would love to send emails and photos, but they don’t have a computer or internet access?
If so, then check out Presto – a cool new service that [...]
April 2, 2007
- About Blogging – A New Series at 5 Minutes for Mom
The first Monday of every month, we will be blogging about blogging – covering topics from blogging basics to advanced techniques.
Remember when you first started blogging and you felt lost in a world where everyone else seemed to know what was going on and you were just trying to keep up and not make a [...]
January 2, 2007
- Tackle It Tuesday - Week 32
Click here to get the banner code and start tackling.
Tackling HTML… and unpacking…
Slowly over the past year, a tag here and there, I have been absorbing some HTML. But it has not been intentional I assure you. No, it just happened without me even noticing it.
You see, I have been stuck here forever, ignorant of [...]
October 13, 2006
- Confession…
Hello, my name is Janice and I do not use Bloglines.
There. I said it. Admitting I have a problem is the first step to recovery, right? So I had to come forward and admit that I have been too disorganized and busy to get started with Bloglines.
I tried a couple months ago. I went [...]
August 26, 2006
- Stay Connected
We love to hear suggestions from our readers… so when Jessica from “It’s Not About Your Stuff” asked us to put up a FeedBlitz subscription form, we got right on it.
If you’ve never heard of FeedBlitz, it’s a free service that sends you an email to let you know when blogs you’ve subscribed to have [...]
June 6, 2006
- BlogHer - It’s a conference, it’s a website, it’s for you!
Thanks Elizabeth from Table4Five for the following post about the upcoming BlogHer conference:
If you have been reading blogs and would like to start one of your own but aren’t sure where to start, or if you have a blog and would like to improve it, and if you would like to meet some of [...]
June 5, 2006
- Blogging About Blogging!
I had a great time hopping around the blogosphere this morning and wanted to share some link love with you all.
First of all, Carol at She Lives has a fun idea for the week called 7 days of Blog
(I may not make it all week, but she said we can do as many days as [...]
May 16, 2006
- Works For Me Wednesday - High Screen Resolution
Susan here with a little “Works For Me Wednesday.”
Here it goes…
In geek-speak:
I use a high screen resolution (1280 by 1024 pixels) on my computer monitor so that I can have more screen real estate and improve my productivity.
Translated:
I make the icons and words on my screen smaller so that I can fit more stuff [...]
April 14, 2006
- Browse Mom-Run Websites
We added the third section of mom-owned-site listings…
“Browse Mom-Run Websites” includes traditional websites that are neither blogs nor online stores.
I updated the original post “Do you want your site listed?” to include this third section.
We’re excited to promote all of your wonderful sites. Just send us a note and we’ll set up your listing right [...]
April 13, 2006
- Have you used Google Video yet?
Google Video is pretty cool. Have you been there yet? http://video.google.com/
I just put up my first video. I made a quick demonstration of using trackbacks based on my earlier post and uploaded it to Google.
So now you can see my video How To Use Trackbacks Tutorial on Google Video!
You can also find it by [...]
April 11, 2006
- Do You Want Your Site Listed?
I’m excited to introduce three sections of our blog where we PROMOTE YOU!
Our mission here at 5 Minutes for Mom is to help moms find the best stuff out there on the Net. And since you, our readers, are busy creating great sites, we want to help spread the word.
So we have created three sections [...]
April 3, 2006
- How to use Trackbacks to Promote Your Blog
What is a trackback?
A Trackback is like a remote comment.
It simply allows you to comment about another blog on your own blog and then the software lets the other blog know you’ve referenced it.
Why should you use trackbacks?
A trackback is good for both blogs. You want to use them and you want other people to [...]
April 1, 2006
- Do You Blog?
Do you have a blog?
Chances are you probably do.
If not, chances are you probably will soon.
I’m not really a blogging expert, but luckily I don’t have to be. Blogging is really easy.
But depending on how and where you blog, how easy and how flexible it is can vary. And obviously, the easiest, free blogging [...]
