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		<title>Make Your Facebook Page A Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook fan pages are great! The main reason they are great is because so many people are on Facebook, and when they become a &#8220;Fan&#8221; of your page, people will receive updates in their feed all about you, your blog, or your product. While it is important to design your Facebook page right, it is also important to make your Facebook page a sub-community in and of itself by importing your RSS feed into your Facebook page, enabling video, photo and discussion posts, and, most importantly, changing your wall so that it defaults to posts by you and your fans. The latter point is key, as Facebook defaults to hiding your fan posts, which discourages interaction, and creates a far more divided community (or, really, none at all). It is changed by clicking on the &#8220;Options&#8221; button under the &#8220;Share&#8221; box, then &#8220;Settings&#8221;, then changing the first drop down option to &#8220;Posts by Page and Fans&#8221;. Here are three common reasons why bloggers don&#8217;t want to embrace the community features of a Facebook fan page, and why I think they should get over it: 1. I don&#8217;t want spammers muddying up my Facebook page. Most people use their real names [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The WordCamp Phenomenon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most bloggers know of or use WordPress.  If ever there was a &#8220;killer app&#8221; for anything on the web, WordPress is definitely it. But have you ever been to a Wordcamp? WordCamp is sort of like a mini-convention for WordPress users. A blogger&#8217;s convention, really, but with some fun technical stuff about WordPress as well. I went to one in Surrey, British Columbia a few months ago and was so inspired by what I found there, that I decided to plan my own. I live in a relatively small city, Victoria, British Columbia (about 350,000 people live in the area). Using only Twitter, Meetup.com and Facebook to promote the event, I sold 50 tickets in the first week. The event is this Saturday, and we are almost up to 100. It&#8217;s a lot of work &#8211; organizing speakers, finding a venue, promoting the event, finding sponsors (not essential, but I found 7 for ours). This said, the event is an amazing opportunity to bring together the local WordPress community and share ideas. We have a number of people coming from all around &#8211; Vancouver, British Columbia, Seattle, Washington &#8211; even Saint John, New Brunswick! My website design company, IdeaZone.ca, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging Platforms, Objectives, Domain Names and Hosting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know now that you should blog. You may have even thought about what it is you should be blogging about. In case you haven't, the one sentence answer is: Blog about what you know about.
Now comes the technology...]]></description>
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		<title>Promoting Your Blog Using Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of my blogs now get more traffic from social media links than search engines. A year ago, the amount from social media was almost nil. There are many different ways to promote your blog using social media tools; I&#8217;ll share a few here. Facebook Page People are on Facebook already anyway, so why not get your blog entries added to their regular stream. Create a Facebook page for your blog and get all your friends to fan it (and ask them to post it to their wall, using the &#8220;Share&#8221; option on the bottom left of the page, so their friends will know about it too). You can populate your Facebook page with your blog using the built-in &#8220;Notes&#8221; application, or you can use a great third-party application called NetworkedBlogs. (Set up either application on both your page AND your regular Facebook profile, too.) I also like to change the settings so people automatically see the wall with fan comments (click on &#8220;Options&#8221; below the &#8220;What&#8217;s on your mind?&#8221; box, then click on &#8220;Settings&#8221;). Once your page has 100 or more fans, don&#8217;t forget to name it, so you can link people more easily to your Facebook page. Twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Started with Feedburner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll admit it, I really love Feedburner. All my feeds for all my websites are ran through Feedburner. What Is Feedburner? At it&#8217;s most basic, Feedburner is a pretty simple concept. It grabs your RSS feed from your blog, and essentially re-posts the content &#8230; as an RSS feed. So, unless your blog is so terrifyingly busy that you are getting hammered with a huge bandwidth bill every month, Feedburner at this level does very little for you.  It&#8217;s all the extra features that make it so amazing. Analytics First and foremost, Feedburner keeps track of your subscribers.  A regular RSS feed does nothing of the sort.  Sadly, however, it does for your subscription numbers what Google Analytics did for your traffic &#8211; it brings brutal accuracy.  It tells you not only how many subscribed, but what percentage actually read their subscription. Warning: Your tuned-in daily readers might not be as tuned-in, or daily, as you thought! Optimization and Customization With Feedburner, you can take your plain-Jane feed and add a bunch of nifty features. The list of features is long. One example is allowing people to submit your article to Digg or Delicious directly from your feed. Publicize If [...]]]></description>
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