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Blog with Passion

Posted on October 17, 2010 by greenbucks| 12 Comments

During the Wordcamp Philippines 2010, I attended a talk on “Blogging with Passion“.

I have been blogging for several years now and I admit there are times when the passion to write wanes. It is as if I just write to meet deadlines for online tasks and not write about what is “in my heart and in my mind”.

So how does one blog with passion?

The answer is simple: LIVE A PASSIONATE LIFE.

How? By doing the things you love and by sharing these with others so that they may learn a thing or two. If one lives his/her life with passion, it shows in how well they communicate their experiences. I know, because I write with a passion to share my experiences too.

Bloggers are receiving a lot of flak these days because of some issues regarding some offline activities that have significance with their online contents. Ok, this is about those who managed to have themselves invited to events they would not have otherwise been invited in the first place. Read more »

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Tagged blog with passion, blog your passion, blogging niche, blogging passionately, blogging with passion, live a passionate life, passion and blogging

Blog Traffic Through the Use of Social Media

Posted on October 4, 2010 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

Yes, the use of Social Media increases blog traffic and/or page views.

Social media sites can help increase your blog traffic. Among those social media tools can use are Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Digg, LinkedIn and the list goes on and on.

Of course, to get the hits you are aiming for, it is important to invest time and energy to put your blog links to these sites.

Here are a few tips to increase blog traffic through the use of social media sites:

Make sure your topic is interesting enough to be read by others. In other words: Content is STILL king!
Be precise and write using words that can be easily understood.
Do not try to attempt to do link baiting by writing a trending topic link only to find out that the post is entirely about a different topic
Be straightforward in writing your topics. If you need to write how people can buy term life insurance, then do not attach a link entitled “top 10 cutest pet puppies”
Schedule putting the links depending on the location of your readers
Visit other blogs or sites and make yourself “visible” by engaging in a virtual conversation. Pretty soon, these writers will visit you too

Given the know-how on how you can promote your blog is not that much important if you do not write good contents. So start writing good quality blog posts and you will soon see that people will read what you wrote.

Your readers agreeing or disagreeing with what you wrote is another matter of course 😉

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Tagged blog traffic and social media, blog writing, blogging, content is king, good content, link baiting, trending topics, writing blog posts, writing interesting topics

How to Make a Friends List on Facebook

Posted on September 29, 2010 by greenbucks| 1 Comment

I turn the chat button on my friends list on and off whenever I feel like it. Maybe some of my relatives are online so I check by turning on the button for “_____ relatives” list of friends.

Oops! However, if there is someone I don’t want to chat with that I see online (not necessarily from the relatives, LOL), I immediately switch off that chat button where the name belongs to. We’ll just probably chat next time I’m up to it 😉

So, what are the steps on how you can make a friends list on Facebook?

Click on the “ACCOUNT” button at the upper right corner of your facebook page. When this is clicked, a scroll down menu will drop down.

When the drop down menu goes down, click “EDIT FRIENDS”
When a new page opens, click the button that says “CREATE A LIST” and a smaller box will pop-up
Click “CREATE LIST” and the cursor will go to a box on the upper left side where you can encode the name of the list you want to use (e.g. neighbors, high school friends, cousins)

Once you encode a list’s name, choose who among your friends you would want in that list. There is no need to type the whole name, just the first three letters will help you choose members of this list OR just click on your friend’s name to be included in the list.

There, you have your friends listed in lists/groups, now it is easy to see who is online or not by clicking on the button of the list’s name IN THE CHATBOX.

Posted in Facebook, File and data management, For Information, Interesting Topics, Social Media, Tech Talk, Visualizations, web tools

Tagged Facebook, Facebook Friends List, Friends List in Facebook, Making Friends List in Facebook

Makapal

Posted on September 23, 2010 by greenbucks| 12 Comments

Meron na akong larawan para sa MAKAPAL ngunit dahil sa mga kaganapan kagabi gawa ng isang scraper ng teksto at larawan ng mga food bloggers, uulitin ko ang larawan na isang screencap na ginawa ko kagabi.

Makapal siya kasi nangne-nenok siya ng gawa ng iba. Tulad ng larawan ng pagkain ng yan, di niya yan niluto, nandito yun oh.

What a sham. What a shame.

UPDATE! nawala na ang kusinero blag ni kumag pero napakadami pala niyang Facebook fan page na puro ninenok din niya ang laman. the nerve talaga.

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Tagged plagiarism, plagiarist, poser, scraper

Beware of Scrapers

Posted on September 22, 2010 by greenbucks| 12 Comments

Early on, we have been taught that cheating is bad. It is bad and perhaps some or most of us have gone through the consequences of any cheating we may (or may not) have done.

Cheating is evil. It is synonymous with stealing, just as these two other words are synonymous with plagiarism.

Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as “the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one’s own original work.”

Now there is this guy, a crappy scraper who started copying recipes AND photos of food bloggers some of whom I happen to know. No, I will not link his blog url here.

Proof. First time I encountered and had frozen Yakiniku beef, I looked for recipes in the net and I landed on this page.