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Twitter 132: Creating a Twitter Search Widget

By Lee Aase | Published: November 9, 2009
[ratings] In Thesis 33, I invited those interested in helping to spread the word about the #wristpain Twitter chat to retweet this: @mayoclinic: Know anyone with mystery #wristpain? Discuss a common cause Thurs on Twitter w/@RABergerMD http://bit.ly/dBlMH post to their Facebook and/or (if you’re really motivated) embed a Twitter search widget in your blog in [...]
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Blogging 123: Customizing Your WordPress Profile

By Lee Aase | Published: January 31, 2009
When you create your username in WordPress or WordPress.com, it has to be all lowercase letters (or numbers) with no spaces. That doesn’t look very professional when you username is associated with a post or a comment on your blog or someone else’s.  Fortunately, you can customize how you want your name to appear on [...]
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Blogging 363: Embed Facebook Videos in WordPress

By Lee Aase | Published: January 28, 2009
Here’s another advantage of self-hosted WordPress over WordPress.com, particularly as Facebook has extended the functionality of its video player. For each video you have uploaded to Facebook, you have an option to embed it in your blog. When you click Embed this Video, you see a window pop up like this: And then, when you’ve [...]
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Blogging 116: Writing a WordPress Blog Post

By Lee Aase | Published: November 12, 2008
When writing a blog post in WordPress, as I will demonstrate in the video screencast that accompanies this course in the Blogging curriculum at SMUG, you can format your text in many ways, similar to what you do in Microsoft Word. And the toolbar is much like what you are familiar with in Word. You [...]
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