As the usefulness of the web grows, we all have more and more passwords and user names. Some sites allow anything; others want 7 or more characters, upper- & lower-case, numbers. It gets baffling. But here’s a great utility for managing it all.

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We recently needed a new camera for video blogging. Thought we’d share the results of our research.

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Business people always ask me “But what can I do with a blog?” Read more

It’s easy to add some bling to your blog with a new theme if you use WordPress.

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We’re always poking around on the web for new and relevant stuff. When we find something really good, we add it to our Blogroll.

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Let’s say you find a great image on the internet and want to use it in your blog. Which is the correct technique:

1. Use hotlink so your blog grabs the image from another site
2. Download the image to your own computer or server

If you said #1, go sit in the corner and wear the pointy hat. Read more

In our previous post, we told you about using Feedburner to syndicate your blog. In this entry, we’ll tell you how to use BuzzBoost. Read more

Once, we were blog dinosaurs. Blogosaurs. Then we found out about Feedburner.

Feedburner syndicates your blog. In essence, it richochets your content all over the web to places people gather in blog-reading frenzy. Places like Technorati, Bloglines, Yahoo and AOL.

Want people to see you blog? At least potentially? Get yourself a Feedburner account and follow the simple instructions to “claim your feed.” All you need is the web address of your blog (url).

Once you’ve claimed your feed, you can activate additional services to increase the visibility of your bloginess.

Next: Buzz Boost

An article in today’s DMNews talks about the success of Steve Spangler, a science teacher from Englewood, CO, creator of the Mentos-Diet Coke geyser experiment that last year became a viral video phenomenon.

Mr. Spangler sells cool science experiments on the internet. Turns out blog posts lead to sales spikes. This is excerpted from the article:

In June 2004, his [Spangler’s] site experienced “an incredible spike in sales” because of one particular product called Instant Snow.

Netconcepts [Spangler’s eCommerce provider] told Mr. Spangler that the spike was due to a post about the product on a blog.

“We launched our blog in July 2004,” [Spangler] said.

Mr. Spangler estimates that 15% of his sales come from his blog.

Thanks to Conrad Fink in New York for spotting this info.

Gino Cosme has pulled together 10 Tips for the Online Copywriters in a recent article for South Africa’s Bizcommunity.com.

As usual, Gino offers sound advice, summarized here: Read more