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How to write a news story

By Romy Cayabyab March 29, 2010 8 Comments

Writing news stories for The Filipino Australian or for other news sites isn't difficult. You will not become an expert news writer overnight, but with practice you should be able to create effective news items. Here are some suggestions which you can also use if you are preparing a media release: Remember the 5Ws and 1H Even in the current blogging and microblogging era, this news-story writing rule formulated many many years ago still … [Read more...]

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How to correctly show off your WP blog stats

By Romy Cayabyab November 19, 2009 Leave a Comment

When a WP blog shows off on its sidebar the following: Blog Stats • 3,000 visits or worse, Blog Stats • 3,000 hits without any additional information, I start asking: "What exactly does that mean?" If a blog stats are presented in this fashion, the numbers look like a block of meaningless information. I know this may be hard to swallow, but that is the truth. Let me just backtrack a little bit and elaborate … [Read more...]

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Tweeting from your WP blog

By Romy Cayabyab October 22, 2009 Leave a Comment

If you have a WordPress.com-hosted blog and you also have a Twitter account, how do you tweet from your WP blog? Easy, there is a plugin installed in your WP blog. All you need to do is activate the plugin in your WP blog and authorise the connection in your Twitter account. Each WP post that you write can easily be connected to your Twitter account. But how do you customize your tweets? That is where the problem lies. Well, at least from … [Read more...]

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Using PicApp images is like picking apples

By Romy Cayabyab October 18, 2009 Leave a Comment

I am testing on this post the PicApp feature in embedding images for self-hosted WordPress blogs. I did a similar test for WordPress.com-hosted blogs yesterday, and you can view the results of that test at my Working and WordPress-ing blog. … [Read more...]

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Customizing your WordPress blog with widgets

By Romy Cayabyab October 6, 2009 2 Comments

I am surprised to see a number of my friends' blogs using the ready-to-use sectional links on the sidebar of their blogs like calendar (useless for new or not frequently updated blogs), archives, etc. when they have so much to display. Either they don't have time to explore the functionalities offered by WordPress.com to change the looks of their theme (at least on the sidebars) or they are not into experimenting. As we wrote in an earlier … [Read more...]

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When waiting for a hardware upgrade

By Romy Cayabyab July 12, 2009 Leave a Comment

Some technical problems with our server during the last few weeks had distracted me from issuing my updates on this site. I could only find small gaps in my schedule which are just good enough to issue SMS-like updates in our Twitter account. The issue with the server was more related to upgrades than anything else. While waiting for the completion of this upgrade and in between email exchanges with our remote-based technical support, we … [Read more...]

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