The art of vexeling and vectoring are interesting as each layer created goes toward the whole look of an image. It takes careful attention to the layering, and certain techniques to make an image that draws awe from others. I have gone through DeviantArt carefully and found several amazing tutorials for those who have never
[Continue Reading...]To Ping Or Not To Ping Your Own Blog
Recently Weblog Tools Collection published an article called Pinging Your Own Blog Posts? Good or Bad? Basically, it is arguing the side that pinging your own blog is bad. According to Wikipedia: A pingback is one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their
[Continue Reading...]FTC Policy Changes And What It Means For Bloggers
On October 5, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials – Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements. Of course, this issue is debatable on the fact that at this moment it has never been officially said that the Internet was medium, as perceived by WebProNews covers in
[Continue Reading...]BuddyPress goes 1.1!
Andy Peatling, announced BuddyPress 1.1 Released on September 30, 2009. There were a few updated to the core and now the social network platform offers: One click internal bbPress forum integration global forum directory Easier theme integration More freedom for administrators to control their site Allow plug developers to hook their BuddyPress installation into outside
[Continue Reading...]Social Media: Coping With Negative Responses
Recently Best Buy had one heck of a run in with a negative crowd in their Best Buy Facebook community after posting the following question: What do you think about offering Bestbuy.com in Spanish? Maggie McGary writes the article Best Buy Asks The Wrong Question On Facebook on Social Media Today and asks basically why
[Continue Reading...]Crossposting: Pros, Cons, and Etiquette
Crossposting has sometimes been dubbed as duplicate content, however, if that was so, then even social bookmarking would probably be put in the same boat sometimes. To get a better understanding, I have included a definition of crossposting: As defined by Wikipedia: Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple forums, mailing
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