52 Nights Unplugged

By: Virginia DeBolt Topics: Social Media Health & Wellness Politics & News Technology & Web

Back in January Ariel Meadow Stallings of Electrolicious announced her intention to unplug everything with a screen in her life once a week for an entire year, hence, 52 nights unplugged.

Should you add Google Friend Connect to your blog?

By: Virginia DeBolt Topics: Social Media Politics & News Technology & Web Pop Culture

Yesterday Google announced a new social network tool called Friend Connect. Google suggests that every blog owner in her right mind will want to add Friend Connect to her blog. What is Friend Connect, and do you want to use it on your blog?

Here's Google's PR about Friend Connect:

How Do You Like Your Wordpress Archives?

By: Virginia DeBolt Topics: Social Media Technology & Web

I don't find blog archives that list posts by dates—either weekly or monthly—very helpful. Unless you're trolling through rereading everything in a stroll down memory lane, seeing archives by date doesn't provide much information.

A Good Book for Bloggers

By: Virginia DeBolt Topics: Social Media Entertainment & Books Technology & Web Writing

I just reviewed a book called "Building Findable Websites: Web Standards, SEO, and Beyond" on my Web Teacher blog that I think many bloggers would find very useful.

Here's the review: Review: Building Findable Websites