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 [...]
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 [...]
Encouraging parents or other teachers to read your blog(s) can be hard work! Not surprising when you consider reading blogs and writing comments is a totally foreign concept to most of them.
What’s needed is to look at the problem from another angle. Instead of focusing on how Internet savvy people read a blog [...]
If you’ve logged into Feedburner recently you will see a notice asking you to move your account to Google. Ultimately you have no choice as they want all accounts transferred to Google by 28 February, 2009.
Unfortunately this has been an incredibly uncomfortable process for most users in the last week because the move has resulted [...]
Simple facts from the stats — for my personal blog Mobile Technology in TAFE.
The Facts
Approx. 50 people visit my blog site each day.
Main web browsers used for viewing my blog are FireFox (52.93 % ), Internet Explorer (39.93 %) and Safari (4.87 %).
Approx. 750 people subscribe to my blog and read my posts using a [...]
Wondering if people visit your blog and what interests them?
There are statistics tools that you can install on your blog that help answer these questions. Problem is working out which tools to use when you first start blogging can be overwhelming because there is so much information on too many options.
So let me explain [...]
Besides making it easier for readers to subscribe to your blog using RSS or email, using a Feedburner feed means you can analyse your subscribers e.g. number of subscribers, and which feed reader they use.
Trouble is unless you redirect all your blog feed to Feedburner you won’t get an accurate picture of the number of [...]
