On Telecommuting

Prior to starting this blog, I have done my homework and have spent at the very least two weeks of sleepless nights on the net to read over existing blogs to learn what works, what does not, what others have arrived at (granted blogging has been in mainstream for over three years already).

Here I will share my first lessons learned and as I proceed I will be extending this post with further findings.

• How to bring more traffic to your blog
  All four are must read!

Seth Godin on Bringing more traffic to Blog

Seth Godin’s Incomplete Guide on Web-Sites that Work

Seth Godin’s Incomplete Guide on Blogs

No Blog is and Island

Guy Kawasaki on Blogging
On this one — go down the page to the posting on
April 20, 2006, The 120 Day Wonder: How to Evangelize a Blog

• Designing and posting nicely formatted text

This can be a challenge even if one is familiar with html let alone if one does not know html,
(knowledge of html is not a necessity to be a great writer).

I am using Word Press — plain vanilla version with no modules or adds-on yet. I know enough html to get by, formatting text has proved to be a challenge.

More on the same issue:
Guy Kawasaki’s experience with postings in Typad #2
Guy Kawasaki’s experience with postings in Typad #1

Neither of the tools below I have tried yet. Will try and/or set up most of necessary plug-ins in the next few days like subscription and RSS feeds to my blog.

• Tools to improve formatting and make blogging more efficient

Ecto
Nvu
Mars Edit
Qumana – post from your desktop

In the course of the next few days I will be experimenting with this tools and will post what I settled on to make my blogging more efficient.

• Postings ranking

Majik Widget

Majikwidget is a widget to enable readers to rank postings.
There are three widgets:

* Ranking
* Polling
* Opening a new page from a link

• Subscription via Feedsburner

Feedsburner

• Subscription via email

Feedblitz

Blog Ranking

Technocrati

Tecnorati ranks blogs by external links coming from other sites.

• Blog platforms

Open source and can be hosted on TnR servers or set up on yours –
recommended due to more control over the look, content, and archives:
Wordpress

Proprietary and hosted externally:
Typepad
pricing: $5, $9, or $15 a month depending on features wanted

Moveble Type
pricing: $200, $350, $500 per license
this is more for corporate internal blogging solutions

Google’s Blogger
free, hosted by Google, easy interface, gives an easy way to incorporate adsense,
but this platform is hardly for a ‘professional/business’ blog

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