Tips for driving traffic to your first WordPress blog

I recently agreed to start doing some guest posting at the Georgia Straight’s Website. My first post went up today and is titled Tips for driving traffic to your first WordPress blog. Make sure you check it out.

79 Awesome Twitter Apps

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79 Awesome Twitter Apps

Twapps.com is a Twitter Apps directory boasting 79 awesome apps. The website is divided into 4 categories: Desktop Apps, Firefox Plugins, Mobile Apps, and General Web Apps.

If you are a Twitter app developer, you can also submit your app to the directory. I’d recommend picking up TwitThis, TwitterFeed, and TweetDeck to get you started.

Get Your Questions Answered on Twitter with Twttrstrm

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Get Your Questions Answered on Twitter with Twttrstrm

Twttrstrm allows you to ask a question to your Twitter followers and easily gather all their answers in one spot.
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Useful Twitter Stats With TwitterFriends


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Mr.Tweet Your Personal Twitter Assistant

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Mr.Tweet helps you easily build meaningful relationships on Twitter by looking through your network and tweets.
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Finding a Job Online – Part 2: Twitter.com

Are you on Twitter? If you have been holding out for a reason to join, you now have one. In part 2, of this 3 part series, I’m going to provide advice and resources for finding a job on Twitter.
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Finding a Job Online – Part 1: Linkedin.com

Are you out of work? I know many of my friends have been losing their jobs and/or having their roles changed recently. The days of reading the want ads in your local paper are over. If you want to find a good job, you need to have a strategy. For part 1 of this series, I’m going to show you how to setup a profile on the LinkedIn network. Next I will provide some tips for optimizing your profile for finding a job. This post is kind of geared towards tech and design people, but the information rings true across many fields.
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Most Popular Posts From 2008

Have you recently discovered Cardeo Design Blog? If so, here’s a great way to jump into some of my best content. Below are a list of the most popular posts from 2008. It’s also a great resource if you are a returning reader. Happy New Year to everyone!

Most Popular Posts on Cardeo Design Blog for 2008

#1 Cardeo Minimal WordPress Theme
The free Minimal theme has been my most popular post and WordPress freebie for 2008. Make sure you go download it, if you haven’t already.

#2 Cardeo Minimal Website Template
So you guys like Minimal websites eh? The #2 post for 2008 is a website template based on the Minimal WordPress Theme. Also a free download, go and get it!

#3 How To Create a Single Image CSS Navigation Matrix
This is a tutorial on how to create an image based navigation with only CSS and 1 image. Check out www.apple.com or the demo to see this baby in action.

#4 Cardeo Mini WordPress Theme
This is another free Minimal WordPress Theme that is available for download.

#5 Free Christmas Vector Pack
This was the second of two vector packs I released in 2008. It was a great success and I plan to release more free vector packs in 2009!

#6 How to Add a Twitter Badge to Your Website
This tutorial is a quick explanation on how you can add a custom Twitter badge to your own website.

#7 Cardeo Public WordPress Theme
Public was the second free WordPress theme released in 2008. Like the most of my themes, it features a minimal layout, twitter integration, and flickr photostream integration.

#8 Barack Obama T-Shirts
2008 was the year of Obama. I tried to do my little part by designing some shirts and selling them on zazzle.com. I plan to donate the proceeds of the sales once a check is requested.

#9 Free Music Vector Pack
The first of two free vector packs I released in 2008. A rock n’ roll theme for all the Cardeo readers.

#10 Cardeo Standard WordPress Theme
Last but not least, my first WordPress theme. Cardeo Standard is a free theme based on Swiss graphic design and typography

10 Best RSS Feeds for 2008

2008 was the year of RSS for me. I’d checked out RSS feeds a bit in the past, but I never really got into them until January of 2008! Now it feels like I’ve been reading them forever. I don’t know how I lived without it feeds the past. Anyhow, to mark this “grand” occasion, I thought I would give you guys a list of my top 10 RSS feeds for 2008.
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Twitter Alerts In Your Inbox with Twilert.com

Twilert.com is a great little Twitter service. It’s free and it allows you to create keyword searches on Twitter. The results of the searches will be emailed to you on a daily basis.
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