I thought that the new FTC rules did not apply to me. I thought the new rules only applied if you sold weight loss products or if you sold “business opportunities” online. I was wrong.

In case you’re wondering what’s going on with your Twitter follower and following counts, Twitter is doing some updates and maintenance.  According to the official Twitter Blog, they are “cleaning up artifacts in the system” and making sure that your follower and following counts are accurate. They’re also getting rid of spam accounts, so you should also see a reduction in “come see my sexy pics” invites among other things.

One of the best features of the WordPress application is that it is almost infinitely expandable. There exist a lot of different plugins and themes, both free and paid, that have been developed by the user community. These plugins and themes combine to allow the application to be almost infinitely expandable and customizable.
After you install the application, the basic structure and functionality of it is fairly limited. Out of the box, with the basic settings you can:

Have multiple users
Get a basic site up and running
Change the main …

Here’s a quick video outlining the steps for adding a Linkedin badge to your website, blog or email signature.
It’s essentially the same process, but here are the specific steps for adding a badge to your website of choice:

It looks like Facebook has done an about face and changed their Terms of Service back to what they used to be.
Yesterday, the CEO of Facebook, went out and tried to explain what they meant by the changes that they put into their TOS.  The thing is, after seeing Zuckerberg’s explanation on the Facebook blog, I can understand what they were trying to do, I just don’t like the language that they used.
Folks, I also agree that if you really want privacy, then don’t put anything on the internets, like …

Over on ezine articles, they have a great blog post to help you write more articles.  I’ve finally figured out that it’s all about the content, so here’s a quick tip about content creation.
Write an article that lists out, let’s say 7 steps to whatever.  Let’s say “7 tips to great vacation photos.”  You write one article that lists all 7 items very briefly.  Then you write 7 more articles, each of them focused on one of the tips that you just wrote out in your first article.  You need …

In my quest to become a better writer, I took it upon myself to look up some words in the dictionary.
I have yet another blog where I post articles that are geared to specifically promote different products that are for sale.  I’ve been using the site as a test bed, so to speak, for some of the articles that I’m distributing to various article posting sites.
By the way, I’ve only found 2 sites where the juice is worth the squeeze as far as posting articles goes.  Want to know what …