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Mark Ramsey’s Top 10 List for Attending OpenCamp!

May 12, 2010
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Mark Ramsey is so smoooth. So here is his Top 10 List of Reasons to Attend OpenCamp! By the way, you ARE coming to OpenCamp right? I mean… if you don’t show up you are instantly disallowed from ever asking me for blogging, Web authoring, or other general advice of this nature. :-) Seriously, you’ll [...]

OpenCamp: The Conference for ALL Webmasters!

April 6, 2010

Well folks, I’m extremely excited to finally unveil the new OpenCamp Conference that I, and a team of volunteers, have been secretly working on for months. (BTW, follow OpenCamp on Twitter and Facebook!) For those of you who were waiting on the announcement for WordCamp, well consider this it! We’re taking it to a whole [...]

Comment Spammers Get Sneaky, But You Should Delete Them Ruthlessly!

February 27, 2010
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You guys have heard me drone on and on about my hatred of Spammers. I really mean it when I say I want to shoot them. Like with a real gun. In Texas. (Yee-haw) Anyway, some people seem to think that they are not spammers as long as they leave a nice sounding comment along [...]

Simply Enable PHP’s GZip Compression to Speed Up Your Blog

February 22, 2010

As you may know, I use WP SuperCache on all of my blogs to enable them to handle the rather high loads the server runs at occasionally. One of the things that WP SuperCache does is enable compression for all of the cached pages. It’s an option in the control panel, which I ALWAYS enable. [...]

How To Automatically Convert Videos To Images

February 20, 2010
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Guest Post by: Charles McKeever of OpenSourceMarketer.com. Creative ideas are everywhere, if you know how to listen. In this article I’m going to show you how you can automatically split videos into images and then use those images to generate traffic for your website. When John Pozadzides (aka the man behind One Man’s Blog) did [...]

Tutorial: Make More Money with WordPress, Social Media and Analytics

February 12, 2010

On January 30, 2010 I did a lecture for the DFW WordPress Meetup group which we called, “Make More Money with WordPress, Social Media and Analytics”. This lecture was similar to the one I did two years ago called, “45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog” in that it covers a wide range of topics [...]

The 8 Best Ways to Earn Money With Google Adsense Alternatives

February 5, 2010

Ok. You’re a blogger. You want to earn money from your website (don’t we all). I realize there are a lot of folks trying to tell you how to make money with Google AdSense (even though most don’t make jack squat), and even though I certainly make a lot more than average from Google AdSense, [...]

Social Media: What It Is, How To Use It, and Where To Begin

January 26, 2010
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Social media is an all-encompassing term used to describe any of several online channels that utilize the technology to facilitate social interaction through written, visual, or audible communication. Examples of different types of Social Media sites include: Social Bookmarking – (delicious.com, stumbleupon.com) Social Networking – (facebook.com, myspace.com) Social News Aggregation – (digg.com, reddit.com) Social Q&A [...]

How To Create A Local WordPress Install | WordCamp Dallas 2009

January 17, 2010

Matthew “Spamboy” McGarity shows us how to preform a local installation of wordpress. This allows a user to have an installation of wordpress on a USB drive, portable hard drive or just their local machine. With this local install, a user now has a complete WordPress development environment separate from his or her live WordPress [...]

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