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Just discovered Zemanta

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Where have I been? Zemanta is wonderful. It can be downloaded as a Firefox add on. It can work on any blogging platform. It suggests photos (from Flickr) for your blog, tags and related articles from other blogs, including Amazon Books with your own referral ID on them. I love it. See the reblog sign down on the right. That’s what it does also. That’s how I discovered it. I reblogged someone else’s article.

Also it allows you to easily put your link on Facebook, Twitter and Mashable or almost anywhere you want.

And you can apply links to the content of your blog, which are mostly definitions from wikipedia or the URL addresses. You don’t need to code them. They just happen.

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Backing up your photos

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While the bushfires were raging in Victoria, Australia, I’m sure many of us were thinking what would we take with us if we were in a hurry and we knew our house would probably burn down. Many think of their photo albums, but these days most of our photos are on the computer. Of course one could run with the hard disk, but rather bulky when you only have minutes to get out. An alternative is to have an extra external hard drive which would be easier to take.

We used to have CDs to back up our photos to and we still do, but how to find them in a hurry unless you are well organised? We also now have USB memory sticks but these items are also ones which cannot be in the house if you don’t have much time to get out.

The answer is to store them on someone else’s server.

If you have your own self hosted blog or web site, you can easily upload them via FTP (Filezilla is free) to your host, depending on the plan you have and how much room is there. They don’t have to link to your web site or blog;  just let them sit there. Create a folder called ‘photos’ on your host’s server. Of course, if you change your host remember to download all those photos to your own computer again. I lost quite a few photos by forgetting that once.

Then there is Flickr You can store as many photos as you like here and you don’t have to show them as public photos.

Everyone has an ISP. Most of these allow you to make a small web page for free. You could use that.

Also there is Google’s picasa - you can upload to this and make your photos private.

Off-site, online storage is really your best bet. Now, all you have to do is upload!

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Social networking sites to which you should belong

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I’m a member of about 11 social networking sites, most of which work in the same way. They also help you get more traffic to your web site or blog if you are a member of them. You might meet some people too.

I’m going to send you to my profile of each of the sites. From there you will be able to jin up as well as see what I’ve done with them. Unabashed self-promotion. What else?

Bloglines is important because you can read other blogs there and put a widget on your blog. Make comments on blogs you read.

Twitter is a simple application mainly for phone contact.

Facebook is a bit different in that you can use many applications there to build up a detailed view of what you have been up to! I’m a bit sick of Facebook and don’t want any more apps!

Flickr is mainly for photos

Squidoo is a place where you can create a web site.

A swicki is a site where you can create as many lens as you like and place the tags on your web site. These lens are on any issue. You can then tag you own web site so it is the first one that the searcher will find for that topic. I get a lot of traffic from these.

Linkedin is more for the professional trying to find old professional colleagues.

Stumbleupon is where you submit sites or blog posts you like so that it is user moderated rather than spidered by a bot. I think we should all use this one a lot more unselfishly unless we want to rely on Google and Yahoo. You should not stumble your own posts

Now ning is my new baby. Here you can add many things: a blog, photos, videos. You can create a group and join groups.

Everyone knows MySpace, but I haven’t bothered developing that one.

Digg is where people submit newsy type stories and like Stumbleupon you should not Digg yourself. I find non-USA sites very difficult to find here. The Australian market is so small that our cyclones are not of interest to the rest of the world.

I haven’t joined the next 2

Workbench is more for the business person.

Mixx is one I don’t know much about. I find I get social networking burn out pretty quickly.

If you join all these and work at them, you should get more traffic to your blog and/or web site. Join me there!