Hey people, as all you know Yahoo! is the competence of Google, or at least it was for a time, actually I think that Yahoo! is over Google but I imagine someone will critique me for saying that. I usually use yahoo services like the web Searcher and Flickr, but I was taking a look on every service and I noticed that Yahoo! really kick asses! it has too many great services, but in this post I will talk to you only about the services for bloggers.

Ask Yahoo!: this is a great service, if you have any doubt you can ask to Yahoo! for any question you have. Of course, you are able to use this service only after asking me .

Blo.gs: blo.gs lets you keep an eye on your favorite weblogs via the web and email. This is a directory of recently updated weblogs and tools for tracking interesting weblogs, in the spirit of services like weblogs.com and blogrolling.com.

Small Business: this is a great service to start your business, providing you the resources to get online giving you a webhosting service and domains for $9.95/year. If you are already have your website, you can advertise online getting a sponsored search and advertise your site in search results, connecting you with potential customers.

Flickr: well well, flickr is almost the best online photo management and sharing application in the world, at least that’s what they say. Really is a great service, too many bloggers are using it to share their photos. But why don’t they host those images on their own server? they use flickr because it’s free and also it doesn’t overload your loading time of your blog.

Yahoo! 360°: this service is a good one, it’s a place that’s all about you to share with friends and family. Let’s see, that’s very similar to the blog definition isn’t it? certainly, with 360° you can manage blogs, photos, lists, recommendations, and a host of other features, Yahoo! 360° lets you share what’s interesting and important to you.

Avatars: do you want to be virtually animated? with yahoo! avatars you can get an animate image of yourself customizing everything, noise, eyes, hair… changing your look everyday. This avatar can be shared in your IM.

Finance: with yahoo! finance you can calculate how much are you spending with their calculators. Also you will find some answers to frequently asked questions. This service is very interesting, you should check it out closer.

Bookmarks: did I read bookmarks? yes! with yahoo! bookmarks you can manage your preferred websites online and not in your browser/computer. This is very similar to services like del.icio.us, getting a button on your browser to add quickly any website to your bookmarks.

I think we all need to explore with details all the Yahoo! Services. I only look for a couple of them but probably there are more excellent services that all we want to meet, so if you use a non-listed service feel free to comment it giving a little description about it.

Happy blogging!

Hello people how are you today, are you ready for an Entrecard Contest? I suppose that was a stupid question sorry -_-, everybody is ready for a contest!. Because all bloggers loves contests, I will host another Entrecard Contest, and I’m saying another because I already made one and the winner was a lucky girl from The Dollar Heaven.

Prize

The lucky winner will get 600 Entrecard Credits 1000 Entrecard Credits directly to him/her account!. In addition, I will write a recommendation about the winner blog on entrecard.

How to enter to this contest

You can enter to this contest by doing the following listed bellow:

1. Subscribing to my RSS feed. Doing this, you get 1 entry.
2. Subscribing to my RSS feed via Email. Doing this, you get 2 entries.
3. Subscribing to both feeds. If you subscribe to both feeds, you get 5 entries!.
4. Writing a recommendation for me on entrecard. I very appreciate this, if you do it you get 5 entries.
5. Writing this contest on your blog . If you do this, you get 5 entries for helping to broadcast my contest.
6. Dropping your E-card. This is obvious too right? if you do this you earn 1 entry to your contest.

After you enter to my contest by subscribing, writing or dropping, don’t forget to comment on this post. This way, I can take note of your entries. Notice that if you do the 6 things listed above, you are able to get 16 entries to the contest!.

Deadline

This contest will end Saturday 16 February! so you have TWO weeks to broadcast this contest . The winner will be choose the Sunday 17, the next day after the deadline and I’ll transfer the credits as soon I get a winner.

Happy blogging!

PS: I forgot to say that the winner will be choose randomly! In addition, if you are already subscribed to my feeds, just post a comment and I’ll give you the entries .

Hello bloggers welcome back, surely when you going to write a post you need to get prepared, concentrating or relaxing, everybody has a different way to do everything. In this post I will give you some tips that you may consider when you are writing a post, specially to make it nice for reading. In the preview entry I was talking about the post structure and what I think about it. This post is very related so if you like this, you should check the last one.

Once you know a little about the post structure, you need to know the next step at the moment of writing a post. So I will give you some tips, catch them! :

1. Check your grammar: the first and more important thing you MUST to do is to check your grammar. Is very bad to have a post with some grammar errors, the people will understand it but is not fun to the reader. So after you wrote a post and before publish it, check at least 2 times the orthography and look for errors…correct the respective errors ( if you found ones) and then publish your post. Once published, re-read your post directly from your blog and if you find an error, for more tiny it could be, correct it immediately, sometimes you can miss something on the correction process.
2. Check the title: in the correction process, you should read the title and search for another better and replace it if you found one. I change the most of my original post titles when I going to publish a post, and remember, search for the most killer title!.
3. Use an image: to make your post more fun for reading, you may consider to add a image related to your post information to do it nicer. Is good to read something and find a little image in the middle of the information.
4. Adjust the alignment: probably you start to write the post and you forget to set the text alignment. After you wrote, I recommend you to *justify* the text to get a better look on your post.
5. Ask something: sometimes is good to do a kind of question to your readers. This way, the post will be more dynamic and your readers will feel more connected with you, as you were talking directly with them.
6. Greetings: this is part of your education, always is good to say a simple *hello* or *good bye*. I always do it with all people I talk, no matter if they are strangers or not, is nice to receive a “hello/how are you” message. This can open you many doors, also you could catch some readers, just for be social or educated.

With those 6 tips probably you will improve your post quality, by doing simple changes. I have not more to say today, this is basically all what I do when I’m posting. While you write a good post with useful information combined with a *pretty look*, you will catch the most of people reading your post and hence they will go back to your blog the next day just another piece of cake!

Many people at the beginning of their blog career write and write as crazies when they are writing a post, and the result is many lines with no sense. This happens to everybody in the first weeks but then, when they keep going on their blog they follow an ascending line improving little by little their posts content.

Tip:When you going to create a post, you need to organize your ideas before start to write. Once you have all your doubts cleared and you found the right sense of the post, start writing!!

But there is a post structure or manual can you follow to write a post, there is an strict order?

Too many bloggers want their posts be nice for reading, and probably they “follow” a guideline at time of posting. I think there is not a guideline or manual to follow because every single blogger has him/her own way to write him/her ideas don’t you think?. Every person, not only bloggers has a different way to do everything, it’s something own that everybody has and born with it and it’s call personality .

However, I’ll give you the tip to make your posts nice for reading, this is how I think at the moment of posting. I think this is the correct sense, it is to me but I repeat, you and only you have a particular style at the posting time:

1. Title: what’s the first on a post, starting with T and ending with E? Yes! we got a winner, is the Title!. You need to choose a title related to your entry, and try to do it attractive for the public. Is more attractive something like “10 reasons why you should hate microsoft” than “microsoft sucks”, you got the point right? try to choose a killer title!.
2. Introduction: the first paragraph could be perfectly a kind of introduction of what will you talk about in the next lines. Although the title can provide this information, is good to “canalize” the information through the post.
3. Body/Main: in this section you should write the main idea about you want to talk. Here you may write everything you want to say about the post. Notice that this information must be related to the title or your post won’t has coherence.
4. Conclusion/Moral: this is the last step. Here you should to summarize all the post information and make reference to the most important ideas.

This is a great order right , you can’t say the opposite or I will ban you! just kidding, really, what do you thing about it? do you have a similar order or you think I’m skipping something? share your ideas and if someone is looking for a kind of style, he/she can collect or the styles information combining them and get their own!

As conclusion, you need to know that there is not a single structure to post and share your ideas. As programming, driving or simply expressing, there is too many ways to do the things, you only need to follow which you consider the best one.

Oh my god I’m getting too busy all these latest days studying and sometimes I have no time to blog, indeed I hardly can check the statistics, emails, subscriptions and requests that daily I check from my blog. Everybody have other things to do in their daily life in addition of manage a blog unless you dedicate full time to blogging!. As this is not my case, sometimes I haven’t time for blogging, I’m telecommunication engineering student and as you may know, engineering consume your time/life . However, I can organize my tasks to do all my hobbies everyday.

Sometimes, you are so busy and may be it’s impossible for you to write a single post, what to do in those cases? I will give you some tips, it work for me!

1. Write drafts: some days I know that I won’t be able to post the next day. In this case, you can write 2 posts, publishing one of them and saving the other to post it other day. You can do this when you have a free day or just enough time to waste sit down in front the computer.
2. Write reminders/notes: do you never get inspired in the middle of the day but you are not near from your pc to post about that idea? well this is not a problem, I have felt that many times.You may simply write the title and a short idea about your idea on the cellphone or in the last notebook’s page and then, when you be able to post, read that note and you will remember everything. Doing this you should not have problems to post about that thought.
3. Write the post on a paper: if you are not near from a pc and you really feel the need to post, take a paper and write everything you want as you do it if you were front your pc. Then, you can scan the paper and posting it as an image file, or if you don’t like the idea you can retype your post in a digital format, no problem.

Also If you have and iphone, laptop or palm with you, you could also write the post and publish it connecting by wifi, but this kind of connection is not able in everywhere, so you can apply the 3 tips mentioned above .

Do you know what’s post on fire? don’t be alarm, I met it just yesterday dropping e-cards. Post On Fire is a social network site for bloggers & blog readers, very similar to Sphinn, starting because the panel and categories are very similar.

It’s a free online community anyone can join. PostOnFire users discover & share the best blog posts on the net, including a voting system that put their readers in control of which blog posts should be in the front page. When a new link to a blog post is submitted, it will be added instantly to the “just submitted” section. When a blog post link in the “just submitted” section receives enough votes and less “extinguish”, it will move to the front page “hot posts”. “Extinguish” is a feature that let users report a link that is not worthy or it’s a spam. When a blog post link receives too much “extinguish”, it will be discarded.

Why may you use this community?

Why to use it? I don’t know you but I don’t found anything new on this network site, it is like digg, sphinn and others…The advantage you can get using this community is in the fact this one is very very young. It may has 1 or 2 weeks as older online, this mean you could be one of “bosses” if you start to use it from now .

The posts on the hot list has just 3 votes!! and I was looking the network and I found some many bloggers registered on bigger communities like sphinn, mixx, digg…this mean you will not alone , adding all them as friends you could ask them to vote for your posts on this new social network.

In my personal opinion I think is a good idea to join, this community is expanding quickly as I could see and being than young you have the opportunity to be one of top users, getting the most of votes and probably attracting more readers to your blog .

Submit or vote quickly with their plugin for wordpress!. Join to Post On Fire and don’t forget to fire this post !