Your Blog Tools

You may have started the year with a set of goals, but along the way, you find yourself distracted by other things i.e new plugins, services or tools.

Before you go crazy kitting your blog out, always ask yourself, ‘is this going to help me achieve the objective of this blog?’

You always have to consider if the time and effort your spending is taking you closer to achieving your goals. If they don’t help in attaining your goals – then get rid of them.

This post was inspired by a meeting I had last night with a friend, as part of a project we’re working on. During the meeting we reviewed and analysed a few tools. And I saw just how the level of information services and tools out there are overwhelming. It’s so easy to get side tracked, whereas keeping focused and on target is the crucial to achieving set goals.
So if things don’t align with your overall goal then move on.

Your time, is your most valuable asset, once gone it can never be reclaimed.

Here’s a few questions I ask myself before getting involved with a product, service or tool.

- What is the overall objective of the product?
- How can it benefit me and my business?
- Does it help in attaining my goal?
- How long does it take to implement?

How do you deal with distractions?
Would love to hear your suggestions.

Fellow Googlers!!

I may be the only person on the planet who isn’t aware of this – but Google gives you a history of web activities performed on their services.
You can track and manage activities such as, Google searches, visited web pages, images, videos, maps and more.
So far, I have activities dating back to two years ago – bizarre!

Simply visit www.google.com/history to access yours.
(You will need a google account to view this)

My apologies if you’re already aware of this, I just had to share my latest discovery
We sure are moving into the cloud computing age.

Friends, It’s my birthday today,
I’ve turned 33 – damn I’m getting old.

I’m not really into birthdays thing at all,
In fact, I don’t remember ever throwing a birthday party, the Valentine spirit always tends to steal the lime light – not that I’m complaining

It’s just the nicknames that gets to me. Here are some:

“Valentine”
“Luffaboy”
“Mr Luva Luva”(from that Shaggy song)
“Mr Valentino”
“Billy Ray Valentine” from the film Trading Places….I mean c’mon

You know who you are…Just Stop!

It’s going it’s my first birthday being married to Yemi, who happens to celebrate hers tomorrow. (Yea, I know – double celebration)

I would like to wish you all Happy Valentines

Enjoy your day in love.

Ever had the urge to quickly push out a blog post?
And straight after doing so, you find yourself going back to make some urgent adjustments.
To some of you who regularly publish, these reminders may not directly apply to you.

Personally, I have had one or two blooper moments, which has led me to keep a mental note of 4 things to do before hitting the publish button.

(1) Set Your Permalink

Permalinks are unique URL that points to your blog post.
Set your permalink to something short, descriptive and search engine friendly.
For this post I have adjusted my permalink to (before-you-publish)
So my URL now reads:

http://www.yourblogtools.com/before-you-publish

instead of:

http://www.yourblogtools.com/4-things-to-check-before-hitting-the-publish-button

(2) Use Relevant Tags In Your Post.

Picking relevant tags helps to connect related topics together.

(3) Select Appropriate Categories

If a post belongs to a particular category then specify it.
It helps with the overall content organisation of your blog.

(4) Spell Check Your Title.

To avoid embarrassment, double check your post titleS.
By default, title text fields does not spell check your words.
However, there’s a quick hack that can enable spell checks within text fields.
The magic happens within your browser settings

In Firefox

- Simply type about:config into your browser address bar and press enter.
- You should now be prompted with confirmation screen, press OK to continue
- In the filter field, type the value layout.spellcheckDefault
- Once value has been located from list, change parameter value of layout.spellcheckDefault from 1 to 2 (by double-clicking it)
- Close the configuration page
- All Done, Now go ahead and check your text field. It should now underline any spelling mistakes.

Although, I haven’t tried this with other browsers yet? but Google Chrome appears to have acknowledge the change.
Does it work for you?
Do you keep a checklist of things to do before publishing?