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Community Guidelines

27th June 2012 by Mike Rawlins

Last week we updated our Community Guidelines here on the site. The snappily named community standards and participation guidelines are a plain English guide to what we feel is acceptable here on Talk About Local. They outline what we expect from … [Read more...] about Community Guidelines

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, hyperlocal, Quick Tips Tagged With: community, community standards and participation guidelines, Conditions, Free stuff, Terms

Twitter – Verified or not?

9th March 2012 by Mike Rawlins

Every now and then I come across a Twitter user who puts a ✔ after their user name or uses the words Verified Account in their profile. They do this to add an air of legitimacy to the account, to make them more plausible. I have seen an increase in … [Read more...] about Twitter – Verified or not?

Filed Under: Advice and Guidance, Blog, Quick Tips Tagged With: mike rawlins, Safety, Security, twitter, Verified, verified accounts

Adding Tables To A Post

4th January 2012 by Mike Rawlins

We occasionally get asked about how to create tables in posts like this column 1 Coumn 2 column 3 row 1 row 2 row 3 row 4 It is easier than it looks, you could create your table in your favourite word processing package and just … [Read more...] about Adding Tables To A Post

Filed Under: Quick Tips, Wordpress Guides and Tips Tagged With: Coding, Guides, HTML, mike rawlins, posts, Tables, tips, wordpress

Advertising on your wordpress.com site

5th December 2011 by Mike Rawlins

As we all know, we can't advertise on our wordpress.com blogs, which is rather annoying as many of you have found out over time that adverts 'do' appear on your wordpress site. Wordpress do place their own Google ads on your site, but the chances are … [Read more...] about Advertising on your wordpress.com site

Filed Under: Blog, hyperlocal, Quick Tips Tagged With: advertising, Adverts, Federated Media, Google Ads, hyperlocal, mike rawlins, Publishing, Revenue, wordpress, wordpress.com

How To Add Subtitles To Videos using Universal Subtitles

11th October 2011 by karenstrunks

In this step by step guide you will be shown how to add subtitles to a youtube video by using Universal Subtitles. Universal Subtitles is a free service. I have already uploaded my video to youtube.  Now we are going to add subtitles to it. This is … [Read more...] about How To Add Subtitles To Videos using Universal Subtitles

Filed Under: How to video, Quick Tips, Step By Step Guides, Using Images, Video and Audio

Adding tweets to your WordPress blog post

22nd September 2011 by Mike Rawlins

How many times have you seen something on Twitter that you wanted to add to a blog post and had to spend 5 minutes doign a screen grab of the tweet to add to your post as an image like this? Well you might not know it but you can actually embed a … [Read more...] about Adding tweets to your WordPress blog post

Filed Under: Blog, Quick Tips Tagged With: blackbird pie, hosted, self hosted, tweets, twitter, Twitter Blackbird Pie, wordpress, wordpress.com

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