Last week my friend @lucretiapruitt clued me in, as is usually the case, about a great new reach multiplying tool I needed to know about- Triberr. I spent the better part of this am checking it out and figuring out what it is about and why I should care. As this moves more out of beta and into the mainstream you are likely to start getting twitter dm's asking you to join a triberr tribe. So consider this your heads up-a quick and dirty explanation of what this is all about. What is Triberr: What is Triberr? Simply put it is a way to have your blog post links retweeted via twitter Who retweets my links? People in your tribe. Who is in my tribe? You start off in a tribe of the person who invited you. It's up to them who is in the group. Can I make my own tribe? Once you are invited into a tribe you can then create 3 other tribes that you lead. How many people are in a tribe? The default is 7 (free) but the tribe leader can expand the group by paying 'bones'-triberr currency (which you can earn or buy through paypal) Do I have to retweet other peoples links? Yes. That is how the love gets spread. You can set your mode to not auto tweet your tribal stream if you are the ...
My WordPress
I am a busy mom so I am always looking for things to make my life more productive both online and off. Since lots of my friends are bloggers, I thought today I would share my favorite plug-ins for an installed wordpress blog to pass along what works well for me. I hope that you find a useful plug-in or two here and if you have one not listed, please leave me a comment. I am always looking for things to make my blogging life easier!So, first off, all four of my active blogs use the Studio Press Lifestyle Theme. I use Studio Press because of the ease of customization, excellent support and because they are both well coded and ahead of the curve.Because I use that theme, three of the blogs use the Featured Content Gallery plugin to make the scrolling pictures box at the top. On this blog, I replaced Featured Content with the Whrrl Widget so that as I take pictures from my iPhone, you see them. I also recoded this one to show my latest full post on the home page.So, what else do I think is blogorific? Add Graphical Signature-This one is old but still works well on my blogs. It is how I get the nifty little signature to show in each post. Comment Luv- Adds a line to each comment ...