Yesterday was my first WordCamp, held all day at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. I’ve been caught up by WordPress fever since early this year when I switched from TypePad. Some 730 people turned out at WordCamp, about double last year’s number. Here’s a Flickr set of WordCamp photos I took. The […]
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How to blog on WordPress.com video tutorial
I recorded a video back in November 2006 titled WordPress.com – Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Blog that has garnered 145,036 views. However, WordPress.com has gone through a number of look-and-feel updates in the last three years, so I thought I would update the video.
Comparing TypePad and WordPress for blogging
Both services are versatile, but WP has pulled ahead People still ask us all the time which blogging platform they should use. (Micro-answer: It depends on what’s important to you.) A few weeks back the team here stared down the issue ourselves when we made the decision to switch Socialmedia.biz from TypePad to WordPress. Why […]
Online slide shows that sing
We’re continuing to experiment with offering the latest, most useful set of tools and resources around social media while making robust use of WordPress plug-ins. So you’ll see additional changes here in the coming days and months. One widget we like is from Slideshare.net, which can be configured as a vertical or horizontal widget. (A […]
Our new look
Welcome to the new Socialmedia.biz blog! I’m happy to announce that Socialmedia.biz is now a group blog, with a wealth of talented contributors, as well as a network of business strategy consultants who understand the social media needs of large and midsize companies. I started blogging in May 2001 when Dave Winer, the father of […]