Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at
8:04 pm
There is a really interesting post over at TechCrunch today on development of your readers. Neil makes some very valid points and offers some ways you can better engage your readers and as a result create more loyalty.
This is something we probably do not do enough of. Of course we are always obsessed about out RSS numbers and the traffic, but do we ever take the time to understand what people really want. It make’s sense if you find out what some of your readers want, then there are probably more people out there that want the same thing.
So what have you done lately to engage your audience? I know I have not done much, but I’m always open to ideas.
Saturday, December 13th, 2008 at
9:36 pm
I was just taking a look at the new version of wordpress, Coltrane, and it looks pretty cool. Wordpress is really making a lot of progress through the past few versions. I’ve been a fan of Wordpress for a long time and its pretty much my platform of choice for building websites of all types. While Wordpress is designed as a blog platform, with the right plugins it functions just fine as a content management system. Many people are starting to use Wordpress in all sorts of ways which are very far from what you would call a blog. Regardless of how you use it, its a great platform and can really help you manage your web presence.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 at
10:20 am
I’ve been neglecting this blog for a while but I had a good reason. This is always been a hobby to me and not something I really used to earn money but that’s about to change one thing that I’m going to do to make my life a little easier is to use Dragon Naturally Speaking in conjunction with live writer for my blogging activities I’ve tried Dragon Naturally Speaking prior to version 10. But I was never able to train it to my voice. Version 10 of Dragon Naturally Speaking is a little different. I just got it last night installed on my computer. My hopes were not high for Dragon Naturally Speaking as with version 8 I was never able to have it understand me with any level of accuracy. Well version 10 is a lot different.
At the moment I am using Dragon Naturally Speaking version 10 to type this blog post. While it does make some mistakes he does understand what I’m saying for the most part. The cool part about this is that typing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a lot faster than typing normally. This is one of the reasons I have not really kept up with a site like I should have. I just don’t have the time to keep up with this site because it does not a lot of money and as a result I spend my time on other tasks which do earn me money. But with the increased time I say by using this software then perhaps I can keep up with this site as well as my many others. I’ve never been a fast typist and I’ve always wanted to improve my speed but typing fast is just not in my abilities talking fast is another story. While it may take get some getting used to as I realize I do not tie the same as I speak and it does make some mistakes which I must correct. The four were some instances and as I get used to it I should do a better job and things should flow better.
Of course Dragon Naturally Speaking is not going to help with SEO. So, I will still be forced to utilize my keyboard to perform SEO type tasks. Right now I’m looking at probably 80% accuracy rate as I speak this blog post. Which is not really really bad. The one thing is a kind of messes me up with my flow of writing in this post does not seem like a normal blog post from me. But regardless perhaps I will give it a shot anyway as this is really helping my speed with typing a blog post. Right now I spent less than five minutes on this blog post and from looking at it I have a couple hundred words maybe 250. At this rate I can probably speak blog post a lot faster than I can actually write them. Of course it means my process for writing blog posts will need to change I will need to put it in my heated prior to actually starting to speak the blog post. Well this is all for now I just want to see how this would work out and it looks okay I’m have to do a little editing to this post and I may change a couple worked around here and there but for the most part I’m very please with Dragon Naturally Speaking version 10. So what blogging tools do you use have you considered? Dragon Naturally Speaking it may be worth the money no matter what your accent I have a South Georgia accent and it understands me just fine now. Of course this was not always true with version 8 it was a total disaster. But version 10 is definitely an upgrade.
