Internet Geek Girl v2.0

Blog Design, Clients

ContentRobot relaunched InternetGeekGirl.com today! Once integrated with StephanieAgresta.com, this blog gets its own look and matches the branding set by  Affiliate Karma. The highlights of IGG include: A cool combo of girly-tech with the pinks, oranges, and blacks Web 2.0-inspired fonts Tons of widgets in the sidebar to highlight events, social marketing, and blog navigation … Read More

Today is Unofficial International WordPress Day!

WordPress

WP Candy has announced that July 1st is Unofficial International WordPress Day, and we wanted to celebrate the existence of WordPress along with them! Why Do We Use It? The flexibility of the WordPress software and the ability to extend it is the best. WordPress has the best community of developers out there who are … Read More

Meet ContentRobot at an Upcoming 2008 Conference

Blogging

While summer is just heating up in the Northern Hemisphere, ContentRobot is already looking ahead. We are announcing our conference schedule in the upcoming months – we hope to meet at any of these great shows! Affiliate Summit East 2008 – Boston – August 10-12, 2008 Affiliate Summit was founded for the purpose of providing … Read More

Summer 2008 Reading: The Best Blogging Books

Recommended Reading

ContentRobot likes these blogging books, which were published between January to June 2008. We think they are essential for your summer reading. Secret Power of Blogging : How to Promote and Market Your Business, Organization, or Cause with Free Blogs by Bruce C. Brown How to Make Money with Your Blog : The Ultimate Reference … Read More

News Roundup for 06/19/08

Blogging

ContentRobot isn’t in the habit of blogging about news items, but the last 24 hours has served up some interesting technology tidbits in our industry. Enjoy: MySpace – one of the original social networking sites, has finally treated to a well-needed design update Flickr – the founders of this Web 2.0 photo-sharing site have left … Read More

Tools We Love: Firefox

Tools

ContentRobot loves the Firefox browser! We often tell our clients to use it because it is error-free, speedy, and little things like the spell-checking helps immensely when blogging. Firefox 3 Download Day Firefox is in the middle of its download day and they want your help to set the record for the most software downloaded … Read More

Do You Use External Comment Services?

Tools

Do you use an external blog services? We often encourage our clients to add some to their blogging toolkit (for example, Feedburner for RSS tools, Feedblitz for blog-driven newsletters), but we hadn’t considered outsourcing your comments. We have been reading the debate regarding third party commenting apps, such as IntenseDebate, Disqus, and CoComment. They each … Read More

WordPress 2.5’s Media Manager is Great for Images

Blogging

With prior versions of WordPress (2.3.3 and earlier) ContentRobot often installed plugins to assist with advanced WYSIWYG post tools and better image management. We knew that 2.5 had included a newer version of TinyMCE and also integrated the ability to include media (pictures, songs, video, and other file types) into the Write > Post panel. … Read More