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Great Find: PEW Internet and American Life Project

September 17, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

Who Are These Guys?

If you write about the Internet, you have not done so already, I predict that a quote from the PEW report is in your future. . . .

Great Find: PEW Internet and American Life Project

Permalink: http://www.pewinternet.org/

Audience/Topic: Anyone who researches writing on modern American life and technology

Content: I never heard of PEW & the American Life Project until I started blogging. Yet reesearch blogging or the Internet and PEW information is likely to be there long before you — quoted as the source of the facts. That’s because PEW is always testing, constantly testing — through nationwide (random-digit) telephone and Internet surveys on the impact of the Internet on American Life.

With that in mind, I’ve collected these few facts before I send you there to explore this goldmine of writing ideas and support.

The PEW Mission
The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through collection of data and analysis of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world.

The Key Researchers
The key researchers work in areas of specialty.
Lee Rainie, Project Director,studies trends in how people of all ages use the Internet.
Deborah Fallows, Senior Research Fellow, follows Email, spam, and everyday life on the Web.
Susannah Fox, Associate Director, Editorial. keeps an eye to privacy and trust, health and health care, support groups, banking, and senior citizens.
John Horrigan. Associate Director, Research, follows social and economic impact of Internet on communities and cities, broadband trends and impacts, adoption of new technologies, and online communities.
Steve Jones, Senior Research Fellow, works in these research areas: College Students, College Students and Gaming, Communities, Copyright, Education, Intellectual Property, Internet in Daily Life, Music, Seniors, Technology Consumption, Teens, Terrorism, Workplace
Amanda Lenhart, Senior Research Specialist, concentrates on issues regarding children, teens, parents and the Internet, the digital divide, education, content creation, blogging, instant messaging.
Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist, researches copyright issues, music and the internet, intellectual property issues online, teens and communication technology, college students and the internet, online communities, demographic trends in online pursuits.

The reports each researcher has written are listed on his or her bio page.

The PEW and American Life Project has 100 reports, email alerts, “find an expert,” presentations, a searchable database, a commentary section an “ask a question” service, and invitations to participate in furure polls.

To get there click the title shot below.

PEW Internet

Every time I think I’ve seen all they offer, I discover move.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find:21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

September 10, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

seomoz.org Is the Best

If you’re not familiar with seomoz, you might spend part of your next 10 weekends getting to know their wonderful site.

Great Find: 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
Permalink: http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1347

Audience/Topic: Bloggers

Content: seomoz has posted another winner. The 21 points in this list are straightforward, well-written, and make total sense. Points such as launch with comments closed, waiting to open them until you have readers are proof that randfish, the writer, not only has experience, but also put his best thoughts and practices into this post. This is one I’ve already bookmarked and put in a place where I’ll go back to review it when I need to check myself. Click the title to read the article.

21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

Thanks, seomoz.org.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: Film Loop

July 30, 2006 by Liz 13 Comments

Add some Action to Your Blog

While I was out at Blogher this weekend, I watched the demonstration for a great product.

Great Find: Film Loop

Permalink: http://blog.filmloop.com/

Audience/Topic: All Bloggers

Content: Film loop is an HTML looping tool that can be added to any blog. Put it in your header or within a post.You can use it to showcase photos. Click on a picture to stop and look more closely. It’s easy to use. Just drag and drop photos from your files. Then capture the HTML code for the loop. You can share the loop and allow others to add their photos.

You can also get creative and put jpgs of your latest posts in the loop, hyperlink the jpgs to the post, and let them crawl across the top of your blog for readers to have easy access. Be careful if you try this, it has the potential of being quite distracting. Use product scans. Add captions if you want to. This is a powerful tool that you’ll find a wealth of uses for in your blogging business. Be sure to check out the many blogs in the post that are in the demo. To see the demo, click the title below.

film loop

Thanks to the film loop team for the many demonstrations!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: Blog Snobbery

June 17, 2006 by Liz Leave a Comment

Ara Pehlivanian wrote this clever treatise on how to be as important as any blog snob might aspire to be. I present it you as some Saturday night fun.

Great Find: Blog Snobbery 101 by Ara Pehlivanian
Type of Article: Blog Humor
Permalink: http://arapehlivanian.com/2006/05/22/blog-snobbery-101/
Target Audience: Any blogger with a sense of humor
Content: Ara’s sense of humor and his writing skill combine to spoof the traditional how-to post. In this send-up he explains how with only one blog and one reader, even the lowliest of us can be a super-important blogger who makes sure that rest of the world knows it.

Ara’s hints include how to handle fan mail, how to act in the all important clique of snobs, giving special attention to name dropping, and how to astound and impress our adoring fan base by re-inventing something they already have. To learn the tricks of being a blog snob yourself, click the title below and read very carefully to take it all in.

Blog Snobbery 101

Ara proves that being a blog snob is truly an art form.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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EchoEcho on and on and on

June 11, 2006 by Liz 5 Comments

Use at Your Own Risk

This is SO COOL and SO DANGEROUS. If you know what small bit I do about coding, it might be a good idea to back up your template files before you start playing with this new toy. . . .

Great Find: EchoEcho
Type of Site:
Encyclopedia of information on how to build and maintain websites — This section: HTML Basics
Permalink: HTML Basics: http://www.echoecho.com/html.htm
Target Audience: Every blogger can find something useful on this site

Content: On the home page of EchoEcho, you’ll see this quote

“It’s easy to explain simple things so they seem to be complex…
to explain complex things so they seem easy – that’s the real challenge!”

The webmaster at EchoEcho has taken on the above challenge, and goes further by attempting to add the word complete. I’m not using hyperbole when I call this an encyclopedia of information about building websites. EchoEcho is a hosting company that knows how to establish credibility through ezine artitcles, tutorials, a forum, online tools free resources, even a quiz.

The Tutorials are divided into three categories each of has subcatagories that cover several topics, talking each one many levels deep. Here are the categories and categories you’ll find there.

  • Page Building: HTML, Javascript, CSS, DTML, XML.
  • Component Building: Design, Flash, Java, Free Java Applets, Java Programming Tutorials
  • Server Programming: ASP, Cold Fusion, PERL, PHP, SSI

I’ve set the link to the HTML Tutorial on the titleshot below. Click on over. EchoEcho is a reference to keep.

EchoEcho HTML Tutorials

There’s no questions that every blogger at every level can use this resource.

EchoEcho has plenty of tools and things to learn, do, and make here for free — ways to add unique details, ways to differentiate your brand, ways to add to your blog’s curb appeal . . . ALSO ways to overdo the bells and whistles BIG TIME . . . ways to screw up your template too, if you you’re like me.

I think I’ll ask friend to come along when I explore this site. I could get into some real trouble easily.

Good luck and enjoy!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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