Tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web 2.0 technologies and edublogs
Lots of people have been asking me about RSS feeds and Feedburner over the past few weeks.
So I’ve decided it’s time to update my ‘how to’ Feedburner info so that:
All the required instructions are in one post
It is current for the latest version of Edublogs and Feedburner
What is RSS?
The easiest way to receive latest posts [...]
Oh dear! Not good
I’ve seen numerous people not protecting their email while reviewing blogs recently!
Definitely not a good idea!
Writing your email as margone@gmail.com in a blog post or on a page means it can be picked up by search bots and then spammers may use it to send you unwanted emails.
I’ll share some [...]
Looking for a blogging app for your iPod touch and iphone? Maybe not yet, but we’ve had quite a few people asking what to use.
UPDATE (10 Aug):
Both BlogPress and WordPress for iPhone now work on Edublogs blogs
You need to be an Edublogs supporter or have ads disable on your blog (by an Edublogs supporter [...]
Whether you are a fan of Facebook or NOT really doesn’t matter.
What does is most people have Facebook accounts. Reading updates and commenting in Facebook is what they are used to whereas posts on blogs isn’t.
Importing your blog feed into Facebook means that people who are most comfortable using only Facebook are more likely [...]
One of the hardest aspect of podcasting is deciding on a site to host them.
Sure you can use a podcast hosting site. But most people don’t realise podcasts can be hosted on their blogs.
Hosting podcasts on a blog can be simpler to set up, is easier for your audience to locate all of your [...]
What do you prefer the most? Blog posts, podcasts or online videos?
Good chance if you’re reading this you probably prefer blog posts. But this isn’t the case for everyone. Similarly some people prefer to write posts whereas other are more engaged creating audio and video.
The key is that most bloggers don’t realise [...]
It’s important, when managing student blogs, to be able to quickly read all their latest posts and any new comments.
Sure you could visit each individual blog but that is incredibly time consuming. The better way, which saves time, is to bring the posts and comments to you using their RSS feed.
Here is how you [...]
