This post is written in response to Justin Kistner’s group writing project, Favorite tools round up but I thought it would be more fun to learn about your favourite blogging tools rather than your working tools :)
Share a list of your favorite blogging tools that you use blog. You could share why you like the tool or even why it’s better than another popular one. Tools could be desktop and web applications, or they could be a mash up of a few services, or something like a manually maintained Excel spreadsheet.
- Quoted and modified from Justin Kistner
My favourite tools are as follow, in no particular order:
- WordPress — This is undeniably the best and most user-friendly blogging platform I’ve ever used.
- Firefox — Need I say more? Firefox even comes with a host of add-ons!
- StatCounter – The only statistics software I use on my blog because I don’t need any more to confuse myself.
- del.icio.us — I am finding del.icio.us more and more useful. I can bookmark almost anything without leaving the page and get back to them whenever I want. And I get to tag them, which makes sorting remarkably easy.
- Bloglines — I read my favourite blogs and news via Bloglines and it picks feeds up fairly quickly too!
- co.mments — Allows me to track the comments I have left on various blogs without receiving email notifications that flood my mailbox. Nifty!
- Webshot — Download the small (less than 1MB) program and you can take a complete screenshot of your blog (very useful if you’re about to show off your new blog theme/design)!
- Flickr — I get to post lots of pictures and share them with anybody, and I get to post them on my blog. I get to decide who sees what too!
What about you? Are you using the same tools that I am using? Or are you using something more powerful? Share all! :vodka:
I know it’s been more than 2 weeks since the last Rediscovering chenpn.com installment.
A lot of things have happened to me in the past 2 weeks. I have been caught up with planning and organizing our 3rd Annual Terrapin Independence Day, and I’ve initiated a month-long blogging campaign on matters related to the environment @ The Giving Hands. I have also been experimenting with a popular social bookmarking service, del.icio.us, and have very recently been planning the revival of my (pretty defunct) turtle blog.
Now, shall we proceed to the next question in the Rediscovering chenpn.com series? The title of this post laid it out very clearly that I’d like to know what you have learned from chenpn.com.
During my recent guest-blogging stint @ Lorelle On WordPress, I blogged about what I have learned from blogging. In short, I have learned that blogging is about learning, reaching out to people and making friends along the way, and blogging is also about expressing ourselves. I find blogging entertaining and satisfying and blogging has changed the way I think and look at things. Besides, I have also learned that blogging for money isn’t my cup of tea, and that I’ve learned that I wanted to be a campaign blogger.
So yeah, what have you learned from chenpn.com? Has it made you a better person, or your blog a better blog? How?
Rediscovering chenpn.com series:
- Why do you read chenpn.com?
- What was your first impression of chenpn.com?
- What have you learned from chenpn.com?
I submitted one of my recently-written articles on tracking comments using a neat website, Track your comments with Co.mments, to Sarah’s “How To” Group-Writing Project. And two days ago, the 44 finalists were announced, and all of us participants are supposed to (publicly) vote for our Top 3 entries on our own blogs (gulps!).
Now, before I proceed, I should let you know that all entries deserve to win, of course, including mine, thank you very much. And it really is no simple feat to determine the top 3 articles, especially when I cannot fully grasp those articles that teach bloggers how to make modifications to their wpconfig.php files, etc. And I will NOT make those modifications because I’m a tech-idi*t and I don’t want to be responsible if things go wrong on my blog, LOL.
Anyway, these are my favourites:
- How To Nail That Job Interview In The First Thirty Seconds by Martin Stoddart. Witty and hilarious, which makes reading such a pleasure :)
- Tips and Tricks: How to Write, Send, Reply, and Forward E-Mail by Lillie Amman. Provides quite an exhaustive list of tips when sending emails, which I think everybody should learn. It saves your time and increases your productivity!
- How To Review A Blog by AdTracker. Provides a list of criteria that we should all pay attention to when reviewing a blog.
Alright now, peeps, GOOD LUCK! :vodka:
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