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Bill Bolmeier
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billbolmeier.com is a personal technology blog which includes web technologies, social media, internet marketing, operating systems including Windows, Linux and Mac, technology news and anything else I find helpful and interesting.
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Weekly Favorites – November 27, 2009
Here’s this weeks Five Faves. Five favorite sites that offer an incredibly useful tool or two, a stunning design (eye candy) or some thought-provoking thinkery. Feel free to sprinkle some of your own faves that you’ve discovered recently, in ...
In-Stream Advertising with Twitter
Want to make money online with your twitter stream or any other social media stream? In-Stream advertising is the answer, or is it? What is In-Stream Advertising? Using twitter for this example, In-Stream Advertising is placing ads in your twitter ...
Weekly Favorites – November 20, 2009
Here’s this weeks Five Faves. Five favorite sites that offer an incredibly useful tool or two, a stunning design (eye candy) or some thought-provoking thinkery. Feel free to sprinkle some of your own faves that you’ve discovered recently, in ...
Twitter Lists: Public and Private
Twitter lists are here and everyone’s talkin’ about ‘em, and figuring out how to use ‘em. The folks over at twitter are putting the finishing touches on lists and giving access to a lot more people. You can create two types ...
10 Twitter Tools – Part 9
Welcome again to another 10 more twitter tools to check out as well as my twitter series that you’ll find on my Twitter category page. However, I’ve listed nine tools, allowing you and me to fill in more tools in the comments section.Â...
How to Create Screencasts with Screenr
In the article 4 Screen Recording Tools I mentioned TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio to record screencasts because it gives you a lot of tools to get creative, like callouts and transitions to name a couple. But, sometimes you just want a quick way ...
How To Install TweetDeck
Here’s a YouTube video I recorded on How To Install TweetDeck. Although a lot of us can install and use software day in and day out with no worry, some folks don’t always feel so safe because they don’t use a bunch of software or i...
How To Increase RSS Subscribers
If you’re a member of the social networking site FriendFeed, and you have your blog added to your FriendFeed services, and you have your RSS subscribers through FeedBurner, then you just increased your RSS subscriber count. I was pleasantly surpris...
How to Send Twitter Retweets to Your Blog Comments
When you start a new blog it can seem like no one is listening. What has come to be a standard practice in the blogging world is to visit other blogs that are in your niche or blog topic and leave meaningful comments on articles that you really...
10 Twitter Tools - Part 8
Yes, here we are again with 10 more twitter tools in my twitter series that you can check out on my Twitter category page. 1. NutshellMail - Here’s what they say over at NutshellMail - “Consolidate all your social networks and multiple em...
A Social Media Marketing Plan - Part 1
Here’s how to use a few social media services to market a product, service or anything else you’re trying to draw attention to. This is geared for the small business owner or freelancer who wants/needs some direction in how to use social ...
10 Twitter Tools - Part 7
Here are 10 more twitter tools in my twitter series that you can check out on my Twitter category page. 1. Twitter Buttons - Twitter Buttons are free twitter buttons you can use on your blog or website. Quite a few (over 100) to choose from. See wh...
Social Video Sites
Providing videos on your blog or website are a great way to get a point across, offer a how-to, tutorial style video, as well as entertain your readers with your many talents, if you have many talents.  A screencast is a video made by recording ...
WordPress Plugins for March 4, 2009
Here are 5 WordPress plugins that will enhance your WordPress environment and possibly make your blog a bit better. 1. All in One Video Pack The All in One Video Pack by Kaltura, looks like, well, the All in One Video Pack. Â Â I have not used thi...
Blog Stats for February 2009
These are my blog stats for February 2009. Goals and Expectations I continue to write an article a day and my traffic numbers are going up and staying fairly balanced between search engine traffic, referral traffic and direct traffic. My Bounce Rate ...
10 Twitter Tools - Part 6
Here are 10 Twitter Tools from my - 10 Twitter Tools series which you can check out on my archives page or my Twitter Follower Welcome page. 1. TweetMyJobs! - TweetMyJobs! will send you new job postings to you via Twitter. See what others are saying ...
Creating a Social Network Landing Page for Your Blog
One way to drive traffic to your blog is to become a member of a social networking site or forum and participate in the discussions at those sites. Most networking and forum sites have a profile area or allow you to have a signature where you can pro...
How to Find and Promote People on Twitter - #followfriday
Want to find new people to follow on twitter or promote someone on twitter? #followfriday is way to do just that. The rules are - suggest someone to follow and why - per tweet. Well, loosely anyway. The # symbol in front of followfriday is know...
10 Twitter Tools - Part 5
Here are 10 Twitter Tools from my - 10 Twitter Tools series which you can check out on my archives page. 1. TweetGrid TweetGrid Create a Twitter Search Dashboard that updates in real time. See what others are saying on twitter about TweetGrid. 2. Twi...
10 Twitter Tools - Part 4
Here are 10 Twitter Tools from my - 10 Twitter Tools series which you can check out from my archives page. 1. Tweet3 Tweet3 allows you to interact with your twitter feed, manage multiple twitter accounts, track stats on your twitter feeds and much mo...
3 Blog Traffic Building Tips - Part 1
When you start a new blog, there are steps you can take to help drive traffic to your blog. Traffic is people visiting your blog. If you’re blogging for reasons other than sharing news with family and friends, then this is important. Here a...
10 Twitter Tools - Part 3
Here are 10 Twitter Tools continued from last week’s post 10 Twitter Tools - Part 2. 1. TwitterSnooze TwitterSnooze allows you to temporarily unfollow people you follow on twitter. Why would you want to use TwitterSnooze? If someone is tempor...
Blog Stats for January 2009
I registered the name billbolmeier.com in November, 2008 and made a couple of posts. I started blogging in January 2009 with the intention of writing 2-3 articles per week but I took a liking to writing, so I wrote an article a day. Goals and Expect...
10 Twitter Tools - Part 2
Here are 10 more Twitter Tools continued from last week’s post 10 Twitter Tools - Part 1. 1. Mr. Tweet Mr. Tweet is your Personal Networking Assistant. “Just follow Mr. Tweet and he’ll send you direct messages suggesting good people...
10 Twitter Tools - Part 1
There are so many tools and ways to use twitter that I figured 10 twitter tools at a time might be sufficient. More in a future post. If you’ve been using twitter for a while you know that tweets can fly by and it’s easy to start thinki...
WordPress Plugins - Comments and Commenting Strategies for Bloggers
I was listening to Yaro Starak’s interview with Caroline Middlebrook about her blog and how she’s made it popular in a short period of time. One activity they discussed was blog commenting and how Caroline was penned the “Commenti...
The Features of TweetDeck
I was going to write another twitter article about twitter apps, and I’m sure I’ll do one or two in the future, but as I was using TweetDeck I thought I’d write about the features of TweetDeck. And for those folks who just started ...
How to Run a Contest Using Twitter
Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney.com is running a contest. You can win a Flip MinoHD and MacBook AIR. The great thing about this contest is how he’s running it as well as the cool Shoemoney logo on the Flip MinoHD. First, Shoemoney is a highl...
Three Twitter Tools
Twitter is a social networking site where people communicate by sending messages that are 140 characters or less. You answer the question What are you doing? Although you can certainly answer that question in terms of personal status updates, the 1...
