DiTesco’s Weekly Echo #18

Hi everyone. It is once again time for sharing with you all the post that I have enjoyed reading this past week. As you all know my recent move to WordPress has been giving me a lot to do and the pressure for writing the technical part of the migration process is warranted:) Hopefully tomorrow or next, I will be posting the “technical” part of the migration from Blogger to WordPress, so stay tuned.

Meanwhile, here are the articles I found to be very useful and informative. As usual, in no particular order:

Gravatar Adds Full Profiles: Gravatar or globally recognized avatar has gone a long ways and now supports the addition of full profile information, upload a bunch of your favorite photos to your profile, and verify your ownership to secure you are the real deal and not an impostor. If you use Gravatar (almost everyone does), gotta read this.

21 Time Management Tips For Bloggers: Pressured with time? These useful tips will get you back on track and make you more productive. While you are at it, you might want to check out this guest post on How To Increase Your Blogging Productivity, in case you missed it.

How to Optimize Google Buzz for Social Network Benefits: See why Ching Ya is giving Google Buzz a second chance. If you have not yet figured out the benefits of G Buzz, this might change your mind.

5 Foundational Plugins, Critical Infrastructure for Your New WordPress Blog: This is coming in early. I wanted to let you guys know about this after completing my tutorial on the migration process. But hey, why wait. There are a lot of you that are already running on WordPress, right? Here are the pillars of making your blog rock solid.

Blogging is not a Single Player Game, Why you still Competing with Me?: Hesham of FamousBloggers never ceases to amaze me and this post is yet another proof that the man knows what he is doing. Being a team player is what it takes to “survive” the online jungle. Find out why?

17 Traffic Building Tips from Some of the World’s Most Popular Bloggers: Still looking for ways to increase your traffic? Corbett gives you 17 ways on how to do it, properly. Just jump over there and check it out for yourself.

A Secret Source for Writing Great Headlines: Do you think headlines are important when writing your article? If you are one those who thinks it is (and you better think it is), here you will find some tips on how to write those killer headlines, the simple way:)

Best Linkedin Groups for Bloggers: If you are on LinedIn, you should know that there are plenty of groups that you can join to further reach people with the same interest as you do. Dan shows you which one of them is worthwhile the trouble. Its great, I joined.

And for the other roundups, that will send you to even more fantastic articles:
Sunday Smash Late Night Blogging and Social Media Tips
Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, April Fool’s Pranks & Rainbow Bridge