• Add to Any (plugin) – Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with Add to Any’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing history.
• TweetMe (plugin) – Automatically shrinks and sends your url to twitter and lets your users share your content on twitter. There is also a non-wordpress version located here
• TwitPress – Submits a user definable tweet to your twitter account notifying any twitter followers or friends that a new blog entry has been published on your blog (or an existing published entry has been edited). Supports inclusion of a permalink to your blog posting in the tweet.
• TwitterCounter – Allows you to integrate TwitterCounter badges on your blog.
• TwitThis – TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website.
• MyTwitter – MyTwitter allows users to display their recent Twitter status updates (tweets) on their WordPress site and update their status through the Options page. Includes customization options including number of recent twitters to display, formatting options, and stylesheets. It can be called as a function or used as a widget.

I copy-pasted some of the descriptions from their original websites, I hope you don’t mind :)

Try’em out, enjoy them, and don’t forget to comment on this post.

Cheers!

For some of us, blogs are their projects for their daily living, as they talk about their life or bring tribute to friends and family. Furthermore, blogs assume a profound meaning to endorse a product, supply information on a topic, post tutorials, and the list could go on. Simply pick a subject and you can find a blog for it on the internet.

Blogs can be written by politicians, sports people, musicians or even kids. The fact that anyone can compose and regarding any subject matter under the sun, complaints about certain write-ups are an issue. A lot of blogs are mentioning names. So, please bare in mind that you have to be very careful and take a lot of responsibility when posting to a blog and avoid saying things that can become controversial.

Why having a blog?

1. Simply as a hobby or daily dairy – You can write about your daily activity, friends, what’s going on with your life or how you feel in a given moment.

2. Topic blogs – these blogs are focused on a single topics, like sports, politics, computer hardware, etc. They are frequently read just like magazines.

3. Marketing blogs – corporations are into blogs as well. A blog can be a very powerful instrument for business communication forming eagerness and anticipation regarding their products and services offered, or used as tool within the company, keeping employees well informed about company issues and news.

Build your own vs. others software

Maybe a lot of software developers will tell you that using ready made sofware packages is pointless. Well, they’re right somehow, because we all have our own needs and requirements and you cannot find a solution ready to meet all of our requirements. On the other hand, the existing sofwares were built after years of research and many of their features aren’t just random picked. Besides, building your own, even if you’re a developer can take a lot of time and resources to build one from scratch and since the blog is the place you need to write, you better focus more on writing posts rather than code.

Where to host my blog?

It’s simple. You have 2 choices: one would be to pick an existing platform that provides a hosted service (like blogger, typepad, live journal etc). You can have it setup really fast and in only few minutes you can start writing. A second option would be to have a self-hosted solution. Of course, there are few advantages and disadvantages. It is better because you don’t rely on anyone and you don’t risk to have your blog shut down for no reason (which can happen on hosted platforms) but at the same time, you’ll be needing some techie skills to be ready to start. The most used platform for self-hosted blogs is wordpress, but there are few more like Movable Type or Textpattern.