A look at some good posts related to my favorite blogging platform, WordPress. Have you considered combining blogging forces with colleague or other simpatico soul? Here’s a good piece on how-to merge your existing WP blog with another one, along with arguments for merging, by Hendrik Kleinwachter and Mark Hagethorn, who jointly publish Duoblogger.com. If [...]

Successful and Outstanding Blogger, that is! Liz Strauss, the original SOB is hosting her blog’s 3rd birthday party tomorrow, October 28, 2008. A year ago I joined the SOB ranks when Liz conferred the title on Loosely Speaking, allowing me to proudly display her badge here. If you have been paying attention, you may have [...]

Whether on- or off-topic for your blog, there are times when participation in a group blog project just feels right. Blog Action Day is one of those for me. Plus, any topic that lets us pause in our obsession with our American Presidential Campaign feels like a healthy use of brain waves. You can read [...]

As a participant in Blog Action Day 2008, I asked everyone I know for information on programs (actual or planned) which combat poverty. Since distributing that appeal for information in August, the numbers of those facing impoverishment may have risen due to economic woes confronting the world. It’s a confusing time when some of those [...]

Sometimes publishing a blog is a drag. Unless you are fortunate enough to be paid to blog, keeping on top of it can become another admin nightmare for any entrepreneur. Weighed against getting your client work done, checking in at the Social Media you use, and doing all your other admin chores, it can be [...]

Blog Action Day 2008 is October 15. This year’s topic is poverty. Last year, thousands of bloggers participated by writing about the environment, posting our articles en masse on October 15, 2007. This year the format is the same in that all participating bloggers upload their posts on the topic of poverty simultaneously on October [...]

This week, blogging maven Darren Rowse threw a Love-In of sorts, intended to inspire us to get acquainted with hundreds, even thousands, of new Twitters, Plurkers, Stumblers, etc. If you need some new social contacts, you can plow through this list of Twitterers, these Diggers and Stumblers, and, to top it off, a smaller group [...]

This is an undertaking that involves a huge leap of faith! Note from ktcosmos: This article was originally developed at the request of a colleague, who was tackling a conversion project herself. She published it on her new blog but then contacted me recently to say she had grown frustrated and stressed out over the [...]

About six weeks ago I converted an existing site to a WordPress, blog-style site. I’ve written about the process elsewhere (Converting from Static Site to WordPress Blog? , and also check out my guest post about the conversion published at Merrick Management), and all that was left to have happen is for the original site’s [...]

Another update. Another (temporary) crash. I don’t know my way around version 2.6 yet as I just installed it. In fact, I was just getting used to 2.51 and then saw it was time to update again. I used the WordPress Automatic Update plugin and crashed my site. Then, did it manually (fortunately my database [...]