Re: blog-site questions....
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > I don't know what happened to my .signature before, but I > already have several virtual/sub domains. i have already begun > to promote Journey at journey.thought.org. I've also [finally] > joined Facebook, and begun reading books and articles on howto > promote one's own books. If, as Chris suggests, sites like > Blogger.com are for blogging, why not use a free site there? > Or build out my own page called, eg, journey.yhought.org/myblog/? > > Blogger and the like are for blogging, of a personal nature. For those that don't have the cash or the expertise to set something up of their own. If you have a large friend-base on Facebook, then you can certainly promote your (e)book(s) there. That will get you exposure in the social-networking realm. If you have the domain already (thought.org) then branching off of that with something like name.books.thought.org or thought.org/BookBlog/that I would go that route (again, wordpress would be ideal to start with here). The goal here is that you don't want to look too amateurish. That could hurt what reputation your trying to build. > Most of my day is spent on one of my project areas [[ BTW, my > "speech-computer" project has actually proved out(!)]]. In just > the past few days I have begun building out my amazom.com site > and asking questions on their forums. I haven't paid much > attention to blogs so far. > > I think you meant amazon.com? it is good that your "speech-computer" project has proven itself. I occasionally ramble on about what's on my mind on my > transfinite.thought.org site, but I check, double- and > triple-check my facts and then footnote them. So back to the > idea of my getting into blogging as a means of promoting: is a > blog suppose to be a factual discussion? Opinions? Gossip? > > transfinite.thought.org has the rudimentary feel of an editoral/blogging site already, this would be a good start ... you could fire up wordpress and port your articles from transfinite to wordpress (copy/paste or any other means avail.) as a base and then you can move into promoting your (e)Book(s). The purpose of the blogging site is to make yourself known, basically as an independent reporter (at least that's how I've always viewed it). To answer your last series of questions here. The blog will be anything you want it to be, including all of these. I would suggest visiting blogger.com, livejournal.com and a few others you can find and read the public blogs there. You will find a large majority of them very amateurish, but you will find some that are very well done. Both in visual appeal and structure of the written word. > This has helped, thanks. I don't think blogging is going to > help me that much because there aren't that many of us geeks, > and certainly many fewer with disabilities. I'll look at our > wordpress port and see. > Well, it could help, in conjunction with other promotion tools. If you are published, then your books will get assigned ISBN/ISBN13 numbers, you can then promote and talk about the fact that your books are listed on amazon, barns & noble, etc, from a personal standpoint. Blog about your experiences of being a new writer, being published for the first time, etc, etc. It's an open door to make with as you please. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: blog-site questions....
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:29:48AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Gary Kline on Wednesday, 05 January 2011: > > Guys, > > > > If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this > > might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now. > > > > One thing I've heard several times is that blogging is a good way of > > promoting one's own books. (I've got at least three books either > > published or to-be-published. [[ ... .]]) Now, outside this list > > nobody knows me--and that's fine, except that with a just published > > ebook, it's time to make my name and ebook public. Before I rush > > out and sign up with some blogging websites, would be be better to > > use a FBSD port and do it myself? > > > > Ill be open about this: I'm still not _entirely_ sure whata blog is. > > But I'm a fast study :) > > If there are better places to ask about web logs, URL's please... . > > > > gary > > > > PS: Any reason why nobody here has read my ebook? It is for geeks > > and about op en source stuff, so, like , v'mon, people > > > > > > -- > > Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > >Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org > > The 7.97a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org > > > > ___ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > I use WordPress hosted on my own domains. As others have mentioned, it's > pretty easy to maintain. It also does a lot of the SEO for you. For > instance, when you add new content, the default configuration > automatically notifies various ping servers so that aggregators (and > Google) pick up the new content right away. Extensions can be found for > just about anything you need, and they aren't that hard to write if you > don't find what you're looking for. > > OTOH, WordPress can be pretty heavy on page loads unless you go to some > pains to optimize it. For most people, that isn't a concern -- but if > you were to have the enviable problem of getting a few thousand or more > hits per day then it could become an issue. T.Y! WOrdpress it is. (Last time I checked, I gave up at once--maybe sooner. Time for a more serious look.) gary > > -- > Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F > http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| > http://chipsquips.com -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.97a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: blog-site questions....
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:53:24AM -0600, Bryan H. wrote: > If you're looking to pay a little for this, I might recommend you > check out Squarespace[1]. > > They have some great content management features and some wonderful > templates, which are completely customizable. Probably the best way > to see how it works is to view the tour[2]. > > And finally, you can get 14 days to try it completely free. You don't > even need a credit card to sign up, and if you use the offer code > "TWIT" (from the "This Week in Tech" podcast with Leo Laporte), you > can get 10% off the price for the life of your account[3]. > > Even if you don't decide to go with Squarespace, I'd reinforce one > thing Chris said: > > > If you want to promote some of your written work ... get a domain > > Perhaps you could use a sub-domain on your thought.org domain, but I > would say that anyone using those free blog services (wordpress.com / > blogger / livejournal) for a for professional reason, well... aren't > very professional, in my opinion. ;-) > > Wordpress (the software)[4] is rather easy to install on your own > servers, and has a nice, easy-to-use administration panel. There are > tons of themes and plugins available for it, so it's quite > customizable as well. > > Hope that helps some. :-) > > [1] http://www.squarespace.com/ > [2] http://www.squarespace.com/tour/ > [3] http://www.squarespace.com/twit > [4] http://wordpress.org/ I don't know what happened to my .signature before, but I already have several virtual/sub domains. i have already begun to promote Journey at journey.thought.org. I've also [finally] joined Facebook, and begun reading books and articles on howto promote one's own books. If, as Chris suggests, sites like Blogger.com are for blogging, why not use a free site there? Or build out my own page called, eg, journey.yhought.org/myblog/? Most of my day is spent on one of my project areas [[ BTW, my "speech-computer" project has actually proved out(!)]]. In just the past few days I have begun building out my amazom.com site and asking questions on their forums. I haven't paid much attention to blogs so far. I occasionally ramble on about what's on my mind on my transfinite.thought.org site, but I check, double- and triple-check my facts and then footnote them. So back to the idea of my getting into blogging as a means of promoting: is a blog suppose to be a factual discussion? Opinions? Gossip? This has helped, thanks. I don't think blogging is going to help me that much because there aren't that many of us geeks, and certainly many fewer with disabilities. I'll look at our wordpress port and see. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.97a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: blog-site questions....
Quoth Gary Kline on Wednesday, 05 January 2011: > Guys, > > If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this > might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now. > > One thing I've heard several times is that blogging is a good way of > promoting one's own books. (I've got at least three books either > published or to-be-published. [[ ... .]]) Now, outside this list > nobody knows me--and that's fine, except that with a just published > ebook, it's time to make my name and ebook public. Before I rush > out and sign up with some blogging websites, would be be better to > use a FBSD port and do it myself? > > Ill be open about this: I'm still not _entirely_ sure whata blog is. > But I'm a fast study :) > If there are better places to ask about web logs, URL's please... . > > gary > > PS: Any reason why nobody here has read my ebook? It is for geeks > and about op en source stuff, so, like , v'mon, people > > > -- > Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix >Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org > The 7.97a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" I use WordPress hosted on my own domains. As others have mentioned, it's pretty easy to maintain. It also does a lot of the SEO for you. For instance, when you add new content, the default configuration automatically notifies various ping servers so that aggregators (and Google) pick up the new content right away. Extensions can be found for just about anything you need, and they aren't that hard to write if you don't find what you're looking for. OTOH, WordPress can be pretty heavy on page loads unless you go to some pains to optimize it. For most people, that isn't a concern -- but if you were to have the enviable problem of getting a few thousand or more hits per day then it could become an issue. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpST39IcGtys.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: blog-site questions....
If you're looking to pay a little for this, I might recommend you check out Squarespace[1]. They have some great content management features and some wonderful templates, which are completely customizable. Probably the best way to see how it works is to view the tour[2]. And finally, you can get 14 days to try it completely free. You don't even need a credit card to sign up, and if you use the offer code "TWIT" (from the "This Week in Tech" podcast with Leo Laporte), you can get 10% off the price for the life of your account[3]. Even if you don't decide to go with Squarespace, I'd reinforce one thing Chris said: > If you want to promote some of your written work ... get a domain Perhaps you could use a sub-domain on your thought.org domain, but I would say that anyone using those free blog services (wordpress.com / blogger / livejournal) for a for professional reason, well... aren't very professional, in my opinion. ;-) Wordpress (the software)[4] is rather easy to install on your own servers, and has a nice, easy-to-use administration panel. There are tons of themes and plugins available for it, so it's quite customizable as well. Hope that helps some. :-) [1] http://www.squarespace.com/ [2] http://www.squarespace.com/tour/ [3] http://www.squarespace.com/twit [4] http://wordpress.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: blog-site questions....
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > Guys, > > If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this > might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now. > > One thing I've heard several times is that blogging is a good way of > promoting one's own books. (I've got at least three books either > published or to-be-published. [[ ... .]]) Now, outside this list > nobody knows me--and that's fine, WAIT! Who's Gary Kline? > except that with a just published > ebook, it's time to make my name and ebook public. Before I rush > out and sign up with some blogging websites, would be be better to > use a FBSD port and do it myself? > > Ill be open about this: I'm still not _entirely_ sure whata blog is. > But I'm a fast study :) > If there are better places to ask about web logs, URL's please... . > > gary > > PS: Any reason why nobody here has read my ebook? It is for geeks > and about open source stuff, so, like , v'mon, people > a Blog is a website ... think wordpress, blogger.com or livejournal.com just to name a few personally, I'm an lj lifer, that's all I've ever used. That being said ... if there is a port it would be something like workpress (and/or joomla and the ilk). which will just do what you can do yourself by grabbing the sources from their perspective websites and install yourself in about 10 minutes. Very easy to do. If you want to promote some of your written work ... get a domain and set one of these up for yourself. My personal opinion says that if you've set up a domain to promote a book yourself vs using something like blogger.com/livejournal.com/wordpress.com (yes they will give you your very own blog, free of charge under their domain). In my eyes, these look very unprofessional. This is an argument I've had with my roommates side business on more then one occasion ... usually after he wonders why his business generates about 1 client/mo. At the end of the day it's what you want to put out of pocket for the domain and hosting. C- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
blog-site questions....
Guys, If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now. One thing I've heard several times is that blogging is a good way of promoting one's own books. (I've got at least three books either published or to-be-published. [[ ... .]]) Now, outside this list nobody knows me--and that's fine, except that with a just published ebook, it's time to make my name and ebook public. Before I rush out and sign up with some blogging websites, would be be better to use a FBSD port and do it myself? Ill be open about this: I'm still not _entirely_ sure whata blog is. But I'm a fast study :) If there are better places to ask about web logs, URL's please... . gary PS: Any reason why nobody here has read my ebook? It is for geeks and about op en source stuff, so, like , v'mon, people -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.97a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
