First of all, I would like to wish all readers of this blog a Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s my pick for Thursday’s links…
Blog Marketing: How to Use Holiday Down Time to Grow Your Blog Traffic
What to Do When People Unsubscribe
Do You Make These Mistakes in Guest Posting?
So You Want to Be a Blogging Star?
Happy Blogging! 
The beta release for WordPress 2.7 has been released, and available for for the public since the start of this month (November).
Even though this beta release is not stable enough in IE and Opera, it is very secure within Firefox and Safari.
I have previewed some of the release feature notes on the WordPress Codex Site regarding the 2.7 beta release, and have listed some key advantages below…
I have provided this link if anyone is interested in trying out the new WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 release.
Twitter, the social networking site that allows users to describe what they are doing in less than 140 characters is becoming quite a companion for bloggers and the blogosphere.
You may even think that it even might be considered “a mini blog” since you are sharing the events in your life with fellow Twitter users that are following your account.
A trend that has been happening is that Twitter users have been using their account to spread the word about the happenings on their blog. You will often see users in the Recent Updates feed mentioning something like “New blog post!” followed by a link to their blog (mostly seen as a TinyURL redirect link). This method can also be an alternative to an RSS feed as people will “Tweet” the update of their blog right after it is posted.
If you have been blogging for quite a while, and have a vast amount of readers and blog partners, most likely that the majority of them will have an account there.
What are your thoughts on Twitter in relation to the blogosphere?
BlogHer is a 3-day long conference that is held each year to help promote and celebrate blogging efforts from women. This event consists of workshops, discussion sessions, speakers, and various other ways to get to know other bloggers within your blogosphere niche.
The next upcoming conference is in Friday July 24th of 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago. More information about booking a reservation for BlogHer can be found here.
Has anyone been to any past BlogHer conferences? If so, what were your experiences?
I thought I would keep up the tradition of Chris’ Thursday Links article. Here’s my pick for this week…
Twitter Followers vs. RSS Subscribers
Getting Fancy Image Captions in WordPress 2.6
Happy Blogging!
Hello! I’m Chad, and will now be providing the frequent content for this blog. I would like to commend Chris on his contributions to this amazing blogging resource. I am honored to blog here in his stead, but be on the lookout for occasional posts from him on here in the future.
Guess what? Blogging has it’s own month! If you are familiar with National Novel Writing Month (commonly known as NaNoWriMo), blogging now has it’s turn! National Blog Posting Month (nicknamed NaBloPoMo) is a challenge to write one post a day for the rest of the month. Are you up to this challenge?
There are various prizes (now I have your attention?) to be awarded to bloggers that win this contest–mostly donated by others that are contributing to this project.
If any of you out there are participating in this challenge, make yourself known by leaving a comment. It will be interesting to see how many readers of this blog are contenders of NaBloPoMo.
