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Joomla is a website Content Management System. Â It basically makes it easier for you to update your website and manage it's content. Â Most major websites run on some sort of content management system. Â If you've ever heard of Wordpress, it's THE most popular Content Management System (CMS) on the web right now for blogs. You can run a blog on Joomla, but I recommend it more for full-blown, full featured professional websites. Â A cool feature of Content Management Systems is that you can change the appearance, or "template" at anytime and all your articles, pages, video's and downloads will work just fine. Â Only the appearance changes - not the content.
Only newbies call it them Content Management Systems by the way, us pro's call them CMS's!
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I recently came across a great Youtube Video from Google about their new Forms feature in Google Docs. It basically ports information from a web or email submission form in REAL-TIME to your Google Docs spreadsheet. Simply amazing!
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Your Mom thinks your special So you have a blog with a pretty decent template and great content. You really think its great and your friends, family and acquaintances think its really awesome - they are truly impressed. You have widgets, video, downloads, tag clouds, blah, blah blah. You labor over it for hours on end and send tweets, and facebook updates whenever you add new content.  Here's the sad but true reality - 99.99% of the Internet population doesn't really care.
Who are you to them? What makes you different from the MILLIONS - yes MILLIONS of other bloggers out there? Why should they read or care about your "Cool Wordpress Plugins" article when there are hundreds of articles written about the same topic? You need to stand out from the crowd to attract a mainstream following and to make your efforts truly worthwhile. The first thing you need to realize is you can't do that by following the "herd" and fitting in.
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Most of my friends and family that want to start blogging always ask you for the "magic formula" for a successful blog. They want to know how to start it, how to make money from it, and how to get hits. They also usually ask me what to write about. I always tell them its not as complicated as they make it seem, but there are some key tools they'll need in their toolbox to succeed. They are Outposts, Networking, Shareable content and a Newsletter (a List!).
I've written a few articles in the past about how to start a blog, so I won't cover the tech of that here. Domains, Hosting and CMS sofware can all be easily aqquired. I want to discuss the common denominators of successful bloggers. I'll call it the blogger tool kit - yes i'm coining that term ;p The first component of the toolkit is creating shareable content.
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It's OFFICIALLY official - I'm a Twitter Addict. Unfortunately, I still have to work to do besides tweeting! Luckily there are some cool Firefox extensions out there to save the day, and allow me to stay on top of my tweeting habit while being productive at the same time. I've downloaded and tried three different Firefox add-ons today and i am ready to post my results!
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