Written on July 4th, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

Why I Use Aweber To Deliver My Newsletters

Blogging Tools and Services, Featured Posts 30 comments

Yesterday I announced the re-launch of the ProBlogger Newsletter (there have been 500+ new subscribers added to the list from last time bringing it to a total of around 16,000 - the first newsletter will come out next week) and since doing so I’ve had a number of questions about why I use newsletters, ‘how’ […]

Written on June 30th, 2008 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

Using bbPress Forums to Community Power Your Wordpress Blog

Blogging Tools and Services 27 comments

A couple of weeks ago I had an email from Terry Ng from Kineda (a great fashion site) telling me about how they’d been using WordPress and bbPress together to create an innovative site. I asked Terry if she’d tell us what they’ve done and how they’ve done it. Here is her guest post on […]

Written on June 14th, 2008 at 05:06 am by Darren Rowse

5 Tools that I’m Happy to Pay for as a Blogger

Blogging Tools and Services 75 comments

There are so many free applications and services available for bloggers that many of us get into a mindset of being anti paying for anything. However sometimes you get what you pay for in life and as a blogger wanting to build your blogging into a business there are some things that can be well […]

Written on June 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 pm by Darren Rowse

Zemanta - First Impress Review

Blogging Tools and Services 36 comments

There’s some interesting buzz around the blogosphere today about a tool called Zemanta (found via WebWare) which is a blogging tool that works in your browser as an add-on that suggests content and licensed pictures that relates to content that you are writing at any given time.
Once you’ve got it installed at any point that […]

Written on June 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 am by Darren Rowse

Feed Compare - Feed Comparison Tool

Blogging Tools and Services, RSS 16 comments

If you’re into comparing stats with your competitors (or friends) then you might like to check out Feed Compare - a tool that lets you compare the numbers of subscribers to a blog with other blogs (as lon as they are all using Feedburner).

Here’s a comparison of my two blogs over 24 months:

You can also […]

Written on June 2nd, 2008 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

MU vs NING for Community Building

Blogging Tools and Services, Social Media 29 comments

This is a guest post by Roni of GreenLiteBites. Roni has developed a successful online community, BlogToLose, to support her weight loss blog WeightWatchen.
In 2005, I started a blog to track my weight loss progress after joining Weight Watchers. Initially, the site was a very egocentric attempt to be accountable on my weight […]

Written on June 1st, 2008 at 08:06 pm by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger is Testing TypePad AntiSpam

Blogging Tools and Services 13 comments

Just a quick note to let readers know that I’ve just switched over to TypePad AntiSpam Comment filtering here at ProBlogger. If you have any issues commenting please do let me know.
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Written on May 31st, 2008 at 12:05 am by Darren Rowse

Web Video University Review

Blogging Tools and Services 15 comments

Around a month ago regular readers will know that I wrote that I was about to start an online video making course at WebVideoUniversity.
Around 10 other ProBlogger readers signed up with me and have been partaking in this four week course over the month of May. I said that I’d give a review of the […]

Written on May 30th, 2008 at 09:05 pm by Darren Rowse

TypePad AntiSpam Launches

Blogging Tools and Services 17 comments

After my post a few days back about my love hate relationship with Akismet I was pleased to see Six Apart announce another option for bloggers looking to stem the tide of comment spam - TypePad AntiSpam.

While I’m yet to try it the reports coming in about it are good so far. It’s free (Akismet […]