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Using these WordPress plugins can make your blog more interactive, sticky to keep visitors coming back for more and used by novices and power bloggers alike. Not all of these plugins need to be used on a single blog, depending on the focus of your site.

Where there are multiple options to perform a single task, I like to spread them out across several blogs to see which ones work best, or fit the look and feel of that site. I use every one of these plugins on various sites, except the eCommerce plugins. Those will come later as those sites are built. The ones listed are the best I found and tested in the WordPress Plugin category. Since this was originally posted on Feb 14, 2009, the list has continued to grow. Read the rest of this entry »

What Twitter Is

Twitter is part blog, part instant messaging system. It is more discussion-oriented than social networks because it does not have the other content such as video, photos, or long profiles. Twitter is the social web on hyper-drive. You can use Twitter through your cell phone, on the web site, or through another program written like an instant messenger, but for Twitter.

Twitter is predicted to be the big ticket next year. People looking at it from the outside do not understand why they should, but once you join and start using it, every other social networking site appears to stand still. Twitter is like blogging with just an RSS feed in real time. You may not have a question or need to get a particular piece of information, but the stream of real time reports from across the event allows you to know about everything as it happens.

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