If you had to choose 5 blogging tools that were the only ones you could use for the next 12 months what would they be and why?
I’m asking this because I want to put together a short list of recommendations on blog tools for a presentation I’m doing in a couple of weeks time.
By Blog Tools I am speaking pretty broadly and include:
- Blog Platforms
- Desktop Publishers
- Metrics Packages
- Promotional Tools
- Content Sourcing Services
- Design Tools
Basically anything that might help you to blog better (but not advertising networks).
Looking forward to your suggestions.
It seems to be popular the stats on the server seem to prove it, the FREE blog software on this site:- http://www.worldnetsources.info
is downloaded at least sixty times a day!
It is FREE and comes with full instructions and is fully functional, it is freeware.
WordPress (I see a theme emerging here…)
Performancing for Firefox
MS Live Writer
Technorati
Feedburner
Akismet spam thingy
Ok, that’s more than 5.
Nice list of essential blogging tools.
[…] The excellent Pro Blogger has a post up asking reader’s to list their top 5 blogging tools. I started to write my list in the comments, but I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone and make it a full blog post. […]
Being a total beginner I still write my posts in WordPress directly, apart from that do my PHP editing using PHP Designer 2007, and use various SEO tools (like the ones found at SEOBook.com and webmaster-toolkit.com) to try to optimize my blogs for SE visibility.
It’s already starting to pay off as one of my blogs are getting more and more SE hits (a one month old blog).
WordPress
Firefox
Photoshop, Fireworks
MyblogLog
Feedburner
:)
Very easy: Blogger (or any other platform) / I feel like the ugly duckling not using WordPress
All the rest is unnecessary. Bells and whistles that may be used, but should not be abused.
Simplicity.
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StumbleUpon – great way to find new material, surprised nobody else mentioned this
Feedburner
WordPress with Akismet
Technorati
Photoshop – however, if I were to say 1 thing that I needed to be a better blogger, but didn’t have, it would be photoshop skills.
Blogger – Its very basic, but that’s what I started to blog with.
Feedreader – I really need an offline reader.
Pingoat – For pinging multiple sites at one.
Photoshop CS – Bulky, but I am familiar with it.
Addfreestats – to monitor Adsense clicks on blogger. Not perfect and misses many clicks, but haven’t found anything better (to use on blogger).
Blogger – Its very basic, but that’s what I started to blog with.
Feedreader – I really need an offline reader.
Pingoat – For pinging multiple sites at once.
Photoshop CS – Bulky, but I am familiar with it.
Addfreestats – to monitor Adsense clicks on blogger. Not perfect and misses many clicks, but haven’t found anything better (to use on blogger).
1) Firefox
2) Performancing FF plugin (for composing blogs and tweaking HTML before posting to the lame Typepad editor)
3) Feedburner
4) Google Reader
5) Flickr
1) new blogger
2) Firefox 2.0+
3) FeedBurner
4) technorati
5) google reader
6) gimp
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My 5 Favorites (currently) are:
http://www.jaxtr.com/forwardsteps
http://www.google.com/analytics
http://www.google.com/reader
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/life-coach-daily-tips
http://www.squidoosecrets.com/build/?yourlens=7124
Namaste,
Thea
1. WordPress: I love the flexibility, interface and the wonderful plug-in and theme development community. I really want to learn CSS well enough to create my own themes! I am using version 2.1.2 on http://www.digitalchurch.com.au
2. Firefox: This is the best browser ever. especially with all the extensions available. My favourite of these is the spell checker which has improved my spelling out of sight!
3. Scribefire for Firefox: The tool formally known as Performancing for Firefox is a great blogging extension which allows me to write and post directly from the browser.
4. Google Reader: I am a recent convert to Google Reader and absolutely love it! It allows me to quickly keep tabs on everything that is going on in my blogosphere.
5. Media Temple: As a web host these guys are the bees knees. Far better than any of the Aussue Web hosts I have used previously, and heaps cheaper!
[…] The credit for today’s inspiration comes from ProBlogger in What are Your Top 5 Blogging Tools?. He poses the question: If you had to choose 5 blogging tools that were the only ones you could use for the next 12 months what would they be and why? […]
I took the bait in your most recent edition of speedlinking, and wrote up a post of my own:
5 Blogging Tools Not to Live Without:
1. WordPress
2: StatCounter
3: Problogger
4: StumbleUpon
5: Amazon S3
Explanations and reasoning abound in the post.
1. Blogger (coz thats the blogging platform I use, and frankly speaking, it sucks big time… wish I could switch to wordpress)
2. Google Reader
3. Gmail
4. Google Search
5. Last but not the least – Google Analytics
Seems like I am addicted to google.
I still can’t survive with just 5, I need more:
6. 103bees
7. Statcounter
8. Flickr
I neglected to mention http://co.mments.com. It enables me to track conversations on other blogs without having to explicitly remember to revisit them.
1. Blogger
2. Ad sense
3. Google Toolbar
4.Google Analytics
5. Gmail
I hope you like these?
I have just 4 tools:
1. WordPress,
2. Firefox spell check plugin,
3. Notepad++,
4. my own head
=O)
Google Alerts is priceless for me. I setup a very detailed list of search strings once, and it puts web and blog content in my mailbox every morning. Feeds and news are nice, but this picks up anything they might miss. It also allows me to easily find where my content is being re-used.
A few more that didn’t get much mention;
HitTail – Phenomenal!
ConstantContact – for non blog/feed marketing
WorkSpace Macro Pro – Automate ANYTHING
MyGoogle – To get my day started
Please publish a rolled-up summary of the responses!
Cheers!
1. Drupal. It just does everything, not only blogging, so well.
2. gEdit
3. Google Analytics, Firestats
4. Hmmmm, visiting other sites and blogs that would be interested in my blog/site, and being constructive and informative
5. RSS. Gregarius
6. Bluefish and reading loads of APIs/guides
[…] The credit for today’s inspiration comes from ProBlogger in What are Your Top 5 Blogging Tools?. He poses the question: If you had to choose 5 blogging tools that were the only ones you could use for the next 12 months what would they be and why? […]
wordpress – for my weblog it self
firefox – for reading news and blogging itself
google reader – for fetching news
google analytics – for the stats of my weblog
flickr – for posting my own photos
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1. Blogger
2. My Own Code *
3. Video (also my own)
4. Ping-O-Matic
5. Friends.
* If you visit http://www.keything.com/blog , you’ll find my company blog living happily there… it’s actually residing on http://keything.blogger.com, but pulled in on-the-fly to my website. It’s a great tool for increasing relevance and your overall footprint.
Sophia…
awesome blog keep updating and you will see us comming back and back….
1. Google Analytics
2. Technorati
3. Google News
4. Blackberry – to type up blog entry ideas on the fly
5. WSJ – To keep a pulse on what people want to read about or are not getting through mainstream media
Hi my best blog tools are:
W.bloggar 3 – can be found in http://www.outyard.com/product/Wbloggar-303,70001,28110.aspx
Pico Blog Software – http://www.outyard.com/product/Pico-Blog-Software-10,70001,27535.aspx
Iblog – http://www.outyard.com/product/iBlog-05,70001,61985.aspx
Bloglines Browser Plug-In 1- http://www.outyard.com/product/Bloglines-Browser-Plug-In-1,70001,32627.aspx
Sharon,
Love you mom :-)
I am new to the blogging word (make money online) and found the articles and comments very educational. Great post.Blogging tools can be the difference between the top or the welfare line.
I am also new to blogging but have been developing web sites for a couple of years now. Quite a few great suggestions here in this post.
One tool I have found to be very useful, especially for importing material and information from other web sites to your blog, is Clipamrks
Very handy. Posts to your blog seamlessly and provides links back to the original site.
1) Blogger
2) WordPress
3) Technorati
4) Drupal
are good one!
1) WordPress
2) Keyword tool
3) Notepad
4) Feedburner
5) Spell Checker
Here’s mine. From Start to Finish
Top 10 Blogger tools you can count on”