From time to time I discover a software package that may prove helpful to bloggers. Bleezer, I believe is among those software package.

Most blogs come with an editor that can be applied in a web page, but this isn’t always the most convenient method to edit text. Bleezer is a program for writing blog posts that can be saved on the computer.

Although Bleezaer is based on Java this is a version specifically for Windows. Versions also exist for Mac and Linux. I am writing this blog post for people who have more than one operating system. The reason for this is that  Windows users will probably find Microsoft Live Writer to be a better editor for their uses.

Installing is easy but you’ll require to information about the blog. Username and password are obvious but it also needs the location of a few files on the blog, such as the xmlrpc.php file on Wordpress blogs.

It can work with tags from Technorati and Delicious and can automatically ping blog tracking sites to let them know about new posts. Bleezer also has a spellchecker built in, but unfortunately does not work in real time.

To download Bleezer go to http://www.computeractive.co.uk/articles/download/2223607

Technorati Tags: blog editors, blogging software, webmaster tools

John Merrick & Soren Jordansen have created an amazing new system in my opinion. It is called TweetMyBlog, a new Wordpress Plugin that I have just installed.

Since a great many of us forget to post on Twitter at least on a regular basis there system automatically posts a tweet every single time you update your Wordpress blog and of course those tweets link back to your blog.

There system gets you more people following you at Twitter and those people are only those who would be generally interested in reading your tweets and blog posts.

Another component of their plugin TweetMyBlog is that it ensures that you can get paid for using Twitter both directly and from the massive amounts of extra traffic that you can generate.

Merrick and Jordansen’s plugin is more than just a flashy Twitter plugin for Wordpress. According to them it is a fully fleshed out marketing plan that will put the power of Twitter at your finger tips.

Check out TweetMyBlog today.

Technorati Tags: twitter, tweet my blog, wordpress plugins, web 2.0, make money blogging

Numerous people complain about Twitter’s deficiencies. In fact some people, including M.G. Siegler, may think that microblogging platform Twitter is doomed. Canadian Wikitravel and Certifi.ca founder Evan Prodromou has built an open-source microblogging tool that will allow users an option to instead than Twitter. Siegler, has said, “That’s why I’ve said in the past that the only thing that can kill Twitter is Twitter itself. If the service keeps failing to work, people will leave not out of choice, but out of necessity. I don’t think that’s going to happen because I think Twitter will right its ship before we get to that point.”

Prodromou crafted an open source platform named Laconi.ca and a hub site, Identi.ca, to fight the “walled garden” situation of the Web 2.0 world. One example is: Robert Scoble being kicked off Facebook for running code to port out his numerous contacts.)

According to Prodromou. People can use the Laconi.ca platform to brand their own microblogging for their own site, or as a sub-site. This is where the income will come in eventually; running on a “freemium” model, those who do extensive rebranding of the platform for their own presence or company, or boast hundreds of users, will pay a fee.

Marshall Kirkpatrick of the blog Read Write Web also rants about the neophyte technical specification OpenMicroblogging, which “allows users of one supporting subscription to send and receive messages securely across different microblogging services,” thus guaranteeing improved interoperability.

Prodromou claims that this application has many uses in enterprise, where workers can use — and already are utilizing — microblogging to communicate with each other and update coworkers on project progress or whereabouts.

My thoughts are similar to Seigler’s in that Twitter is the only thing that can destroy Twitter. Personally I have never had a lot of trouble with it and I still believe it is a great tool.

Technorati Tags: twitter, tweet, open microblogging, Robert Scoble, M.G. Siegler, Evan Prodromou, Marshall Kirkpatrick

Recently I have been promoting the idea of using Entrecard as a way to get a great deal of traffic to your blog. Entrecard has just made things even better by allowing people to list and advertise and earn credits from more than just one blog. But this post isn’t even about these great improvements to Entrecard. Rather, it’s about a great website called Free 125 Cards at http://www.free125cards.com.

Entrecard and many other blog related sites like your ad to be 125×125 pixels. Until now you had to pay someone to design your Entrecard banner or go with a very simple and unimpressive background provided by the site. The reason that Free 125 Cards is so great is that you can create 125×125 pixel cards for social media sites such as Entrecard. Other websites are now accepting this 125 x 125 pixel format such as those being used by Project Wonderful.

It’s very simple to use Free 125 Cards. You simply go to their gallery and pick out the background that you would like to use and then after you have chosen the background you click on a button that takes you to a page to personalize the text. You have your choice of several fonts and sizes of text and you can enter each line of text individually and place it where you want it on the background. I must say that I am very impressed with this tool.

Technorati Tags: entrecard, free 125 cards, free125cards.com, advertising, project wonderful

Diyana Alcheva in her blog at www.networkmarketingsmart.com said that Twitter can be categorized as a social networking site, a content sharing site and even a bookmarking site in a way.

She claims that it is a social networking site because it allows you to network and communicate with other people. You can stay in touch with friends by inviting them to follow you. It’s a way for you to stay in touch with some of your busy friends or get to know better some of the people in the social marketing world.

Because Twitter has been called a micro-blogging site it can also be characterized as a content sharing site. Diyana says that “When you provide powerful and valuable information you become recognized as an expert in the field. What does this mean for your network marketing business?”

Twitter can also be called a social bookmarking site because of the following reason:

Many users who are also called “Twitters” would often refer to a website in their “tweets” they just came across that they found valuable.

Diyana goes on to relate how you can integrate Twitter with Facebook and also use Twitter as an Internet broadcasting mechanism.

For Diyana’s full post about using Twitter to build your network marketing business visit http://www.networkmarketingsmart.com

Technorati Tags: diyana alcheva, network marketing, twitter, facebook, mlm

What if you could share many of the feeds and links to your social media sites, your blogs, social networking sites and tagging sites as well as video and music sites? That possibility is available through www.friendfeed.com.

This site isn’t brand new;however, it still isn’t as publicized as I believe it should be. They could also improve the site by adding a F.A.Q. section for new users. Instead they assume that each new user will know how to proceed. To the seasoned veteran of using services like this it is very easy to figure out. For those who are newbies to the world of RSS and social bookmarking it may take awhile longer to get used to using it.

Even with the drawback that I mentioned about the site not having a F.A.Q. section I do feel that this is most likely the best online tool for sharing multiple feeds. You can share feeds from such services such as Digg, Google Reader, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Last.fm, your own personal blogs and much more.

To view my feed and subscribe to it simply visit http://friendfeed.com/kstien1959.

Technorati Tags: rss, sharing, social media, tagging, social bookmarking, social networking, friendfeed

For some reason when I login into Wordpress my dashboard only shows three incoming links. It used to show several more. Where they went is a question that I have not been able to answer. Also, I have posted comments at several blogs within the last few weeks and these do not register. If anyone else has this situation and an explanation for it please let me know.

On the positive side I found a tool at http://www.thelinkpop.com/index.php to check link popularity and found out that on the following search engines I have  the following number of links at the following search engines.

This is indeed a pleasant surprise. I suggest that you try this tool and find out how many backlinks that you have for your website.

Technorati Tags: incoming links, backlinks, seo, search engine optimization, webmaster tools

Seobook.com has valuable tips on how to improve the SEO of your blog or website. This blog post is just a brief summary of some of what they offer. I suggest you sign up today to learn more.

SEOBook.com is a leading SEO blog by Aaron Wall covering marketing tips, search analysis, and many search engine optimization techniques.

According to www.seobook.com the SEO Book blog is one of the most widely read blogs about search, with over 1,000,000 monthly page views.

SEObook.com also has free SEO tools to help you to optimize your website. They offer free SEO tools that allow you to create meta tags, perform keyword research, and spy on competitors with competitive research tools and link analysis tools.

You should register today for a free account to comment on the blog, and receive other benefits like free access to premium content and private beta test their new tools.

Technorati Tags: seobook, seo book, seobook.com, seo, search engine optimization, aaron wall, seo tools

Let me tell you about Feedburner and how you can use it to publicize your blog.

If you’ve been involved in blogging for any amount of time and have not registered yourself with Feedburner.com then you are doing yourself and the blogging world a big disservice.

Feedburner was down for awhile until upgrades were made, and they also were acquired by Google which makes them an even more important part of your blogging arsenal.

Feedburner can add a great deal of functionality to your blogs through the following:

You can use Feedburner to publicize your feed and start attracting subscribers. There are several ways to do this. Make it easy to subscribe by doing the following:

* Chickletize your web site. Encourage people to subscribe to your feed by posting a friendly graphic in an easy-to-find location.
* Why confuse would-be subscribers by offering the full menu of RSS and Atom flavors? Consolidate by serving up just one SmartFeed, digestible from any destination.
* Pleased with your circulation stats? Promote them using FeedCount
* For the XML literate, consider using the Awareness API to share your subscriber stats with directories and listings.

You can also use Feedburner to cross promote if you have more than one blog.

* BuzzBoost helps you cross-promote your content by repurposing your feed as go-anywhere HTML.
* If you author some very moving headlines! Promote your content with Headline Animator.

There are many paid plans that allow you to set up email subscriptions to your blog posts. Feedburner does this for free. See the subscription box in the right hand sidebar of Blog Smart Resources? Enter your email there and you will get an email copy of every post.

Feedburner also allows you to analyze your feeds, optimize your feeds and monetize them. With all of these ways in which to use Feedburner to publicize your blog I would suggest looking into using them today.

Technorati Tags: feedburner, google, publicity, blog tools, rss feeds

I have never participated in one of these joint venture giveaways as a partner but I probably should have participated in the one that I am going to mention in this blog post. The reason is that this blog is all about blogging as is the giveaway event.

The new blogging giveaway is titled the Great Blogging Giveaway   in which most of the ebooks and software  being given away by the various Join Venture partners is related to blogging, rss or social networking. Some of the titles being given away include:

RSS Feed Submitter - Automatically Submit to all Major feed directories
The A to Z About RSS
Blog Finder Pro - Offers the Easiest and Fastest Way to Locate Related Blogs in any Niche. This will Help You to Compile a List of Blogs You can Leave Comments on and Build a Ton of Backlinks Instantly! It identifies Wordpress blogs with the ‘nofollow’ tag in the comments field in ANY niche you choose It saves you time and effort from searching for blogs manually to leave comments on and building backlinks
YouTube Video Sites Generator In A Box
The Most Useful Plugins For Your Wordpress Blog

and many more titles too numerous to mention. This is not the normal giveaway with software that you will never use. If you really like to blog you will find some items in this giveaway that are useful to you. Go to the Great Blogging Giveaway today and sign up to get your gifts.

Technorati Tags: blogging, blog tools, seo, social networking, software, ebooks, joint ventures, giveaways, free products