Have Multiple Pen Names? You Need A Social Media Scheduler
I admit, I haven't been good at scheduling social media posts lately. But, in my defense, the tools I'd been using (Planable, Fedica) didn't connect to all my networks or had issues, and frankly it just took way too much brain power between trying to figure
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Connect Your Blog to the Fediverse
Imagine if readers could follow your blog the way they follow any other social media account. And the blog could be followed on a variety of different platforms. If you have a WordPress blog, this can happen with the ActivityPub plugin. This allows your blog, or individual authors if your blog has multiple
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Imagine if readers could follow your blog the way they follow any other social media account. And the blog could be followed on a variety of different platforms. If you have a WordPress blog, this can happen with the ActivityPub plugin. This allows your blog, or individual authors if your blog has multiple authors, to
Why I Don’t Recommend the Paid Version of WP Encryption
Having a SSL certificate is a requirement on your website, and if you have a WordPress website, there are a few different plugins that I've used to generate SSL certificates. WP Encryption is one, and I've used it on several sites because the paid ve
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Having a SSL certificate is a requirement on your website, and if you have a WordPress website, there are a few different plugins that I've used to generate SSL certificates. WP Encryption is one, and I've used it on several sites because the paid version allows me to generate a wildcard SSL (one that will
Want More Time To Write? Get A Technical Assistant!
It doesn't matter if you're technical or not, dealing with technology, whether it's your websites, services you use, integrations you want to create or ways to save time and money, takes valuable time. That time could be better used writing or editing. Want to get that tim
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It doesn't matter if you're technical or not, dealing with technology, whether it's your websites, services you use, integrations you want to create or ways to save time and money, takes valuable time. That time could be better used writing or editing. Want to get that time back? Think about a technical assistant. What's a
The Trouble with AIOSEO and Divi
If you have a WordPress blog, then there's a good chance you use a SEO plugin. One of the more popular is AIOSEO, available in both free and paid editions. And it claims to be compatible with Divi, a popular theme and one I've used for years. The problem is that AIOSEO and Divi don't quite pla
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If you have a WordPress blog, then there's a good chance you use a SEO plugin. One of the more popular is AIOSEO, available in both free and paid editions. And it claims to be compatible with Divi, a popular theme and one I've used for years. The problem is that AIOSEO and Divi don't
Take Advantage of Free Verification on Bluesky and Mastodon
You can be anyone you want to be on the internet, and it's true. I once ran a short-lived social media account for SuperDuck, my pet house duck. As far as I know I'm not a duck, though my duck thinks that he's a
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Why You Need To Backup Your Writing Beyond The Cloud
When it comes to making a backup of your writing, it's easy these days to default to saving it in the cloud. Services like OneDrive or Google Drive make it easy to keep copies, but with companies selling your data to train AI, increasing threats from poli
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When it comes to making a backup of your writing, it's easy these days to default to saving it in the cloud. Services like OneDrive or Google Drive make it easy to keep copies, but with companies selling your data to train AI, increasing threats from political regimes, and companies cracking down on what's stored
Make Your Author Newsletter Count For More Subscribers
A few months ago, I blogged about what political texts taught me about marketing. And then a recent article crossed my social media feed that basically said that consumers are opting out (as many as 40% a week
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Now Is The Time For A Risk Audit. Are You Ready?
Publishing is always changing, but recent events have made it vital more than ever to do a risk audit for your author business. Let me be clear. Doing a risk audit isn't succumbing to fear or scare mongering!
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Publishing is always changing, but recent events have made it vital more than ever to do a risk audit for your author business. Let me be clear. Doing a risk audit isn't succumbing to fear or scare mongering! Any business, regardless of the owner's view, will perform periodic risk audits to stay in business. It's
Email Integrations To Save Time and Energy
How many devices do you keep a calendar on? And do those calendars all talk to you? How about emails and email programs? Are you logging into webmail clients for each address or do you have all of them come into one tidy app where you can keep track of your email? How would you like to save
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How many devices do you keep a calendar on? And do those calendars all talk to you? How about emails and email programs? Are you logging into webmail clients for each address or do you have all of them come into one tidy app where you can keep track of your email? How would you
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