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		<title>Tags and social bookmarking</title>
		<link>http://wildstuff.edublogs.org/2008/04/08/tags-and-social-bookmarking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wildstuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tag and Social Bookmarking 
Tags and social bookmarking services are similar. Social bookmarking refers to users recommending which topics are most popular with them. This is done through votes and by tags. 
Public bookmarking sites show the world what you think is important information, and asks others to “vote” for your recommendations as you vote [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><u>Tag and Social Bookmarking </u></h3>
<p>Tags and social bookmarking services are similar. <em>Social bookmarking</em> refers to users recommending which topics are most popular with them. This is done through votes and by tags. </p>
<p>Public bookmarking sites show the world what you think is important information, and asks others to “vote” for your recommendations as you vote on theirs, and the winners rise to the top.</p>
<p>Tags are like mini-categories for blog content, tagged by the blog owner or visitor. Together in combination with social bookmarking, you can search through tags for the most popular posts within a specific category based upon traffic, voting, or other recommendations.</p>
<p>Tags and social bookmarking help your readers to talk to each other, and to share favorite posts and articles. </p>
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		<title>Blog Regularly</title>
		<link>http://wildstuff.edublogs.org/2008/03/30/blog-regularly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wildstuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BLOG REGULARLY
I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to be regular with your posting. Whatever frequency you can, do it the same throughout. Be regular – every day, or every other day or every 2 days…even once a week… but regular.. 
If you have to leave for a while tell the readers why and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>BLOG REGULARLY</strong></p>
<p>I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to be regular with your posting. Whatever frequency you can, do it the same throughout. Be regular – every day, or every other day or every 2 days…even once a week… but regular.. </p>
<p>If you have to leave for a while tell the readers why and for how long or when you will be back.<strong></strong></p>
<p>Where necessary use the post dating facility to prepare blogs ahead of time so that they upload t a specific time even if you aren’t a the computer. </p>
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		<title>Start from the top with catchy headlines</title>
		<link>http://wildstuff.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/start-from-the-top-with-catchy-headlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wildstuff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that 8 out of 10 people read the headline, but only 2 out of 10 go further and read the actual blog post?1. Grab attention Your headline may be the only impression you make on a prospective reader. Unless your headline turns a browser into a reader, the rest of your words [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Did you know that 8 out of 10 people read the headline, but only 2 out of 10 go further and read the actual blog post?</em>1. <strong>Grab attention</strong> Your headline may be the only impression you make on a prospective reader. Unless your headline turns a browser into a reader, the rest of your words may as well not exist.</p>
<p>2. <strong>Communicate with key words</strong> A headline must also communicate a full message to its intended audience, and it absolutely must </p>
<p>3. <strong>Lure the reader into your body text</strong>. A compelling headline must promise some kind of benefit or reward for the reader, in trade for the valuable time it takes to read more.</p>
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		<title>Managing comments with ease in your wordpress blog</title>
		<link>http://wildstuff.edublogs.org/2008/03/13/managing-comments-with-ease-in-your-wordpress-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wildstuff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation blogging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comments are a critical means of having that important conversation with your visitors. You need to mange the comments in your blog to avoid receiving spam or hate mail.
Bloggers have several options for setting the way comments are to be handled and whether they should be moderated or not (that means whether they should be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comments are a critical means of having that important conversation with your visitors. You need to mange the comments in your blog to avoid receiving spam or hate mail.</p>
<p>Bloggers have several options for setting the way comments are to be handled and whether they should be moderated or not (that means whether they should be approved by the blog owner or not).</p>
<p>At <a href="http://www.wildlifedirect.org">WildlifeDirect </a>we set all blogs not to be moderated unless a commentator attempts to leave 2 or more links. This is just one mechanism to prevent spam (we also have other tools). However, you might still have a valid commentator trying to leave more than 2 links because they have some important contribution to a conversation.</p>
<p>You need to monitor these comments which  will not appear on the blog, but can be viewed and approved in the back end.</p>
<p>To do this simply log in and look at the right hand side of the dashboard. It will give you information on <strong>latest comments</strong>. Look at whether there are any comments <strong>in moderation</strong>. If there are comments in moderation, go to <strong>Comments</strong> and click on <strong>Awaiting moderation</strong>. This will allow you to approve, or delete any comment. It’s a good practice to clear your comments in moderation every week or so.</p>
<p>If you are getting comments that are disturbing, hate mail or that kind of thing, or just plain rubbish, you can turn on the moderation by going to <strong>Options</strong>, and then click on <strong>Discussion</strong> – here you can change various settings</p>
<p>To make it easy for you to track what’s happening I recommend you try the following settings which will minimize your need to actively manage or moderate</p>
<p>Usual settings for an article:<br />
<em>(These settings may be overridden for individual articles.)</em></p>
<ul>
<li>     <label for="default_pingback_flag"> Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the      article (slows down posting.)     </label></li>
<li>     <label for="default_ping_status"> Allow link notifications from other blogs      (pingbacks and trackbacks.)     </label></li>
<li>     <label for="default_comment_status"> Allow people to post comments on the article     </label></li>
</ul>
<p><fieldset> <legend>  </legend>E-mail me whenever:</p>
<ul>
<li>     <label for="comments_notify"> Anyone posts a comment      </label></li>
<li>     <label for="moderation_notify"> A comment is held for moderation      </label></li>
</ul>
<p></fieldset><fieldset> <legend>  </legend>Before a comment appears:</p>
<ul>
<li>     <label for="comment_moderation"> An administrator must always approve the comment      </label></li>
<li>     <label for="require_name_email"> Comment author must fill out name and e-mail     </label></li>
<li>     <label for="comment_whitelist"> Comment      author must have a previously approved comment     </label></li>
</ul>
<p></fieldset><fieldset> <legend>  </legend>Comment Moderation</p>
<p>Hold a comment in the queue if it contains or more links. (A common characteristic of comment spam is a large number of hyperlinks.)</p>
<p></fieldset></p>
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