BlogHer - New, improved and better than ever - Comments

It's there Ricky!

Denise — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:53:14 -0500

Your blog was added to the BlogHer blog lists over the weekend.

Welcome!

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Help

Virginia DeBolt — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:24:21 -0500

You can find lots of help about the site in the "Using the Site" link at the top of the page. Also, ask questions in the forums if you get stuck on something.

http://www.webteacher.ws/
http://first50.wordpress.com/

Glad you like it Virginia! I

rickybuchanan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:05:18 -0500

Glad you like it Virginia! I think it got accepted too, I have a node anyway whatever that means. Still finding this all rather confusing :)

Ricky

ATMac - http://atmac.org/ - Assistive Technology for Mac OS X Users

You might like to check out ATMac!

Virginia DeBolt — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:33:32 -0500

I'm not the person who decides what get accepted, but I've already added you to my feed reader. I'm definitely interested in assistive technology for the Mac.

http://www.webteacher.ws/
http://first50.wordpress.com/

You might like to check out ATMac!

rickybuchanan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:12:59 -0500

Since you're writing about new technology blogs, I think I've just added ATMac http://atmac.org/ to the BlogHer rolls. If it's been accepted, I guess. It's waiting, anyway!

I'm not sure of the etiquette of saying "Look at my blog!" and I'm new here so I'm likely to have mucked up this commenting totally, but it's so fantastic to see other women blogging about techie stuff so I thought I'd let you know about mine. :) Great to see you writing about the accessibility of forms too!

Best Wishes,

Ricky Buchanan

:)

Virginia DeBolt — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:36:15 -0600

http://www.webteacher.ws/
http://first50.wordpress.com/

Thanks, Virginia

tripletsmom — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:26:52 -0600

Thanks for the link to About.com's Guide to Web Logs, Virginia!

Susan

About.com's Guide to Web Logs
Brandcurve
MarketingBlurb
The Disney Traveler

Never tweet from my phone

Denise — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:51:11 -0600

I've never sent a twitter text message. If I tweet from my iPhone I do it from Safari and it's really rare. Web-based twitter for me.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

yikes!

Virginia DeBolt — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:58:32 -0600

I didn't know you could do it that way. Oh my, here we go.

http://www.webteacher.ws/
http://first50.wordpress.com/

Ah, Viriginia, that's no excuse.

debra roby — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:38:33 -0600

I primarily use web-based twitter.

My phone doesn't have a qwerty keyboard, and it takes me forever to enter the simplest text message. I have a few folks that under special circumstances (like while attending a conference) I'd turn on their comments so I could track and find them in the conference.

Most of the time, twitter sits like background noise on my laptop. Easier to walk away from; and no text charges.

Debra
A Stitch In Time
Deb's Daily Distractions

It's not Twitter

Virginia DeBolt — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:31:08 -0600

it's the extra $15 a month to add text messaging to my phone plan. You've thoroughly convinced me that Twitter can be a good thing.

http://www.webteacher.ws/
http://first50.wordpress.com/

Check out twitter ..

Beth Kanter — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:05:12 -0600

give it a few tries ..

New, improved and better than ever

Virginia DeBolt — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:58:29 -0600

Somebody has to do it. So I do it. What is it? Read the technology blogs, what did you think I was talking about?

I skim the Blogs tab on the home page looking for new technology blogs. They are rare. Very rare. When I find a newly listed blog that bears the technology label I get all oogly googly and click INSTANTLY to see what's there.

I also wander aimlessly among the alphabetical listing of technology blogs that have been registered with BlogHer for a long time. Hmmm, I think, is that one new? Have I read this one yet? Sometimes all that oogly googly hmmmming gets me somewhere. Here's where it got me this week. Maybe I exaggerated with the new and improved teaser headline, but some are new to me and they are all wonderful good.

About.com isn't news. Nope. But I just discovered two sections of about.com that have info that is brand new on my horizon. The first is Jennifer's Web Design/HTML Blog on about.com. This is Jennifer Kyrnin's blog about my two favorite subjects: web design and HTML. Jennifer, why didn't I know you were there before? I'm so sorry I missed you all this time. I'll make up for it, I promise. I already read your article about Choosing the right web design software and voted in your poll about your age when you learned HTML and looked around a whole lot more.

I found another about.com site about weblogs in our BlogHer blogrolls. It is Susan Gunelius' blog, Web Logs. Susan talks about Landing a Professional Blogging Gig and about Navigating the sea of Blogging Software and more great blogging articles to make you happy. How about getting on about.com with Jennifer or Susan?

Did you know there's a niche out there just for wikis, wikimedia, free content and free culture? That niche is being filled by Brianna at All the Modern Things, where you can find about wiki related topics such as The Need for a Self-Documenting Community and The Kaltura Brouhaha while keeping up on your inner wikiness.

Maybe Wikis are a little more than what you wanted to know. But you do want to know about search engine optimization and usability. I know you do. That's why you want to know about Cre8pc on Usability and Holistic SEO. Cre8pc can take a topic like Why I Don't Want to Twitter My Life Away and make it about working from home, Facebook, global community, and reading books. I found it interesting reading. I used to agree with her. I still don't use Twitter, but I've been convinced by Beth Kanter that is isn't so bad. Beth or no Beth, Twitter or no Twitter, cre8pc and I are kindred spirits. Cre8pc on Usability and Holistic SEO is a blog in support of a consulting business, so if you are trying to run a web-based business and are thinking about how to use a blog to help you on your way, this blog is worth a look from that perspective.

The Webgrrls Blog isn't really new to me. It contains articles about all sorts of tech topics. The last time I tried to subscribe to it in my RSS feed reader, I ran into so many difficulties that I gave it up. A change of some sort has taken place there, however, and now it is easy to subscribe. So go subscribe. W00t!