WordPress is possibly one of the best blog tools available for your websites.
It is very well supported has widgets and tools which makes it a very complete package.
Once installed on your site you can write blogs for it directly from your webpage, write your blog as an email and email it to your site, or do as I am doing now – blogging from a smartphone.
What makes WordPress so powerful is how it can be either integrated into an existing site or you can base your entire website around it. If you don’t have any web-design skills you can find copious amounts of free themes to start with and easily change the themes at any time.
WordPress also has built in comment feature allowing you to Interact with your audience.
What’s really awesome about it is that it’s free and most good webhosts provide an easy way to install it automatically.
For more info on WordPress go to their website
social networking and micro-blogging service
I’ve recently been playing around with twitter, downloading a pile of applications for it – both for my mobile phone and computer, trying to find what works best and what doesn’t work well at all!
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I’m not mad, just talking to myself
“The second sign of madness is finding hair on the palm of your hand … the first is looking for it.” Anon
Society like to tell us what’s not acceptable, but I like to question what’s acceptable and ask why?
But that’s not how I started talking to myself.
I wanted to overcome some personal issues, become a better husband, be a better leader, but I was struggling with issues of self-esteem and belief – that’s when it clicked and I started talking to myself.
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The Secret to Effective communication – The Personality Profile
We have found that this tool to be the most helpful, of all the personal development tools around, in creating channels of communication with others. The problem we have is that everyone is different in their approach to life, and when trying to communicate we miss the mark – because we don’t understand the other persons “angle”.
Understanding this will help you identify areas of your life that need to be improved, encourage you in areas where you are already strong and allow us to step out of our insecurities and realise that we are all the same really!
On purely practical terms you will be able to apply this to every area of life, work, family and any place that you have a social interaction. You will find that where you didn’t’t understand some people and found them frustrating, that now you have an increased grace towards them.
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