Posts Tagged ‘blogger’

To Blog or Not to Blog

You can find extensive listings of Caribbean Blogs on top5jamaica.com. You can find a growing list of blogs on CUblogz.com even more so that Cariblogger.com seemed to have dived into the dotcom dead pool. You can follow some of the regularly updated Caribbean blogs on blogscaribe.com and blogjamaica. And You can find a small and growing community of Caribbean Bloggers on Facebook. Last year I was happy to report that there was a Caribbean Blog boom brewing, we had discovered how easy it was to start a blog with wordpress and blogger and we were happy.

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Press Release 2.0 – Using Old Tools in New Ways

When was the last time you read a press release? Unless you wrote it, your answer is most likely “never”. Five years ago press releases were necessary for industry analysts, stakeholders and journalists to get wind of what organizations were up to. Today, few writers are grabbing press releases from fax machines or Web sites to craft headline stories for print media.

In case you missed it, good old print media is just that – old and unprofitable. Newspapers are fast going online or trying to build a bridge between the print and online worlds. In the new world of publishing, a faxed press release is a waste of time and a useless way to distribute relevant information. Here are three tips to get your press release to impact your business as it would five years ago:

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How to stay healthy while being a professional blogger

I haven’t posted a fresh blog since last week Wednesday, the day I got a call that my mom had a mild heart attack and was in the hospital. At that time nothing else mattered and what usually comes with such a shocker is a barrage of questions. My family doesn’t have a history of high blood pressure, heart disease and high cholesterol at all, for mom it’s been the simple case of living a sedentary lifestyle plus stress. She’s 72,retired, loves ice cream and loves to take her grand kids to KFC, which she insists is not fast food because it’s just chicken and all you gotta do is not eat the fries and such. Ahh mom. Thankfully she’s now out and recovering and has been doctor ordered to strict diet and exercise. But it all got me thinking about how to stay healthy while being a professional blogger.

Being a professional blogger can take long hours of sitting in a chair at a desk, tapping away at the computer. I get neck,back and wrist pains at times but I go work it all out at the gym at least 3 days a week and also get a bimonthly full body massage. So, recently I’ve personally resolved to do the following:

- Get an expensive ergonomic chair, keep my cheap desk.

- Increase gym time to 4-5 times a week and lose 15lbs.

- Get an iMac, as a laptop can seriously encourage bad posture at a desk if you’re not aware and careful.

So being active outside of blogging hours are important. Your body is made to move and like a car left unused for weeks, your body will seize up on you if you don’t give it the motion it needs. So how do you maintain a balanced lifestyle and grow a successful and profitable blog? I went to some of my colleagues for a little information and inspiration. Here are three posts that I liked alot.

1. With Better Health Comes More Money Online by John Chow

2. 10 Ways to get Fit WHILE Blogging by Problogger Darren Rowse

3. How to Avoid the Physical Hazards of Blogging by Problogger Darren Rowse

My mom’s wake up call was my reminder, a stop and check to see if I am doing what I need to live a healthy dot com lifestyle. Every now and again check yourself to see if you’re getting out and being active as much as you are being a slave to ones and zeros and making money online.

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Who are the Top 12 Jamaican Twitterers ?

Twittermania has gripped the world and the Caribbean and Jamaica are no different. Last week I wrote a post on the Top 12 Caribbean Twitterers, now I’m going country specific for a hot minute. Again, I used wefollow.com, which is a user-powered Twitter directory to track how many twitterers we had under the Jamaica tag/category. WeFollow.com has grown to become pretty much the Billboard Chart for Twitter follower standings, the current industry standard and most influenftial Twitter directory.
The top 12 Jamaican Twitterers list was developed by using this single directory with the sole determinant being- how many followers/subscribers does each Twitterer have. What I found was that the top 12 people/sites/individuals/companies with the most followers in the Jamaica tag/category are:

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How to Raise Venture Capital

When I find an excellent post where you and I can learn something I simply have to share it. Neil Patel, a successful blogger and entrepreneur I respect alot wrote an instructional article on How to Raise VEnture Capital, so have a read. He starts with his experience of trying to raise venture capital, his success and failures and how you can get what you want.  Read it here

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The blog platforms of choice among the top 100 blogs

We all know that WordPress is popular among bloggers, and Movable Type as well. But HOW popular? And what other platforms are being used? To find out, we went through the Technorati top 100 blogs and investigated what blog platforms they are using. It turned out to be a highly interesting survey with plenty of surprises along the way.
As a by-product we also found out some interesting things about the more popular blog networks. For example, did you know that Weblogs, Inc. and Gawker Media together have 22 of the top 100 blogs?
When you read this article, you might want to keep in mind that we have chosen to make a distinction between blogging services and self-hosted blog software.
By blogging services we mean services like Typepad, WordPress.com and Blogger, where a third-party service is handling the blog software and hosting for you.
By blog software we mean the software you use when you set up and host the platform yourself (using WordPress, Movable Type, etc). Now let’s get on to the data. More

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