News!! Blogger-Hat Lite: Quick Updates Close Blogger In Addition To Related Tools

Introducing Blogger-HAT Lite - quick notes close changes inward other products that are of import for Blogger users to know about.

Today, I'm officially launching Blogger-HAT-Lite - a novel weblog where I portion quick notes close changes inward production other than blogger, which I intend Bloggers may locomote interested in, or definitely demand to know about.

All Blogger-hints-and-tips readers are invited to visit the site, subscribe yesteryear RSS or subscribe to yesteryear email.

More than only buzz ...

Blogger-HAT-Lite is non close repeating brigth-and-breezy announcements from other services.
Instead, it aims to:

• Filter these, then that exclusively ones alongside (possible) implications for Blogger users are reported
• Suggest questions that demand to locomote asked in addition to issues that demand research close the effect on Blogger integration
• Link to data close related topics - especially ones that utter close consequences that the people making the original changes may non convey idea about.

... but less than fully-researched articles

I started for my ain notes close Blogger, peculiarly  problems that I couldn't uncovering the answers to yesteryear googling.

It was also a test-bed for tools similar Analytics that I wanted to purpose on my principal blog, but needed to endeavour elsewhere first. After installing it, I notice that other people were looking for the same answers - in addition to when they googled, my notes were what they found.

I chop-chop institute that the most interesting topics were close making Blogger "play nicely" alongside other products, rather than Blogger itself.  At the same time, I aimed to pass fifteen minutes/day answering questions inward the Blogger Help Forum - to nation thank y'all for all the assistance I received when I was getting started.

Typing the same answers over in addition to over got tedious, in addition to when I institute something novel after on that would convey changed a previous answer, it wasn't viable to uncovering the before answers in addition to update them. So I started writing articles close things that people were shout out for for assistance with, then I could only link to the article from the discussion.

So I started researching in addition to writing longer articles alongside the background, solution in addition to the wider  consequences (what volition y'all see? what create your readers see? what else create y'all demand to intend about?).

These articles tin kicking the bucket out-dated due to changes the other product, that I powerfulness non notice. So I started reading the official announcements close Picasa, AdSense, Analytics, Gmail, Maps, etc - then that I knew what was changing, in addition to could intend close the effect on my ain blogs, in addition to .

Right now, I convey 230 potential article topics, in addition to 130-ish articles that demand updating for the novel Blogger interface - only every bit the recession has eased in addition to I convey a full-time 24-hour interval job. Simple math shows that I'm non going to locomote able to write articles that encounter my enquiry standards, inward the fourth dimension straightaway have. And I kicking the bucket on seeing novel things that I'd would dearest to explore but know I won't larn around to.

So Blogger-HAT-LITE is:

• A habitation for quick notes close these issues
• A means to keep rails of interesting things I see,and 
• A house to portion interesting-but not-fully-researched updates with my readers.

What's covered

Blogger users could purpose hundreds of other products inward conjunction alongside theeir blogs. Any spammer could fix a feed-based site that searches other sites for the word "blogger" in addition to reposts the results.

Instead, I've selected a grouping of products to monitor: ones that I purpose in addition to recommend, in addition to which I a know a lot of Blogger-users use. So far the listing includes:

Picasa
Youtube
Gmail
AdSense
Analytics
AdWords
Google Custom Search Engines
Feedburner
Google Affiliate Network
Webmaster Tools (Webmaster Central)

And these (currently :-)  non-Google products:

Chitika
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter
Amazon Associates

More volition locomote added every bit I start using to a greater extent than products, or uncovering announcements-blogs for existing ones (eg Google Maps).

Are in that place whatever other tools y'all would similar me to kicking the bucket on an oculus on, then I tin intend close whether changes inward them touching on Blogger? Leave a comment below ...

Stay upward to date

Why RSS is of import for y'all blog

How to portion your posts to a Facebook page (and non an private profile).

Understanding the follow-by-email gadget in addition to Feedburner.

Other products that bloggers purpose alongside their blogs

Tweet

Subscribe to receive free email updates: