Got something to say on your blog, but don’t think it is enough to be worth a full post? Why not use the Aside format for your post? If you are using a theme that supports them, Asides, are an ideal way to add a short post to your site almost like a status update [...]
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Using The Request Feedback Option On Your WordPress Blog
One of the under used features of your WordPress.com hosted blog is the Request Feedback feature on your posts. This feature can be invaluable if you are writing a long post and you want to get a second opinion, need it sense checking, proofreading or if you are dealing with some facts and you want [...]
Getting more attention – tagging and understanding notifications
In Facebook as with a number of other tools, tagging is a way of bringing greater meaning to content like photos or text. For example, if you’ve added a photo, you create a tag by clicking ‘Tag photo’, choosing the person’s face and then when you type their name, if they’re on Facebook, you’ll be able [...]
Quick start: 3 ways of building communities on Facebook
In this quick guide we”ll look at three useful ways of building communities on Facebook. Sometimes people worry about using Facebook to talk to people who aren’t personal friends and family. All of these methods allow you to interact with people without needing to be Facebook-friends with them. Pages allow you to use Facebook under [...]
New feature for WordPress.com sites – add Google docs and calendars
The announcement from WordPress that users can embed Google calendars and docs is great news. We often get asked whether we can add calendars to blogs and there hasn’t been a very simple way until now. Google calendars can be a bit clunky and fiddly, but is still better than nothing. The rest of the [...]