Category | Blogging

Tumblr Adds Video to Their iPhone App

Posted on 22 November 2009

If there wasn’t enough reasons to love Tumblr over Posterous, they finally sealed the deal with me when they released their latest addition to their iPhone app – video blogging capability!  For those of you that don’t know what Tumblr is, it’s a quick blogging platform that aims to allow you to blog your life [...]

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Support a Catholic Speaker 2009 is Over, Done, Finished!

Posted on 13 November 2009

If you are deep into the Catholic blogging community, then this post will be of no surprise to you.  So, over at Fallible Blogma, Matt Warner had a really cool idea about Catholic bloggers supporting Catholic speakers by writing about who they were. At first I was like, meh. I’ve heard a lot of Catholic [...]

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Build a Blog and Impress Your Friends

Posted on 12 November 2009

I got a question from a fan named Laura – who also happens to be my cousin – about her need to express herself.  Her question goes a little something like this: “Dean, I need my own blog…….STAT! I have things on my mind that I need to get out! Help a sista out!” Needless [...]

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Why I Chose Tumblr Over Posterous

Posted on 02 November 2009

I recently started another blog that will basically act as the hub for all of my blogging and entrepreneurial ventures.  The site is www.deansoto.com and it’s a place that I can let my hair down (so to speak) and be a little less formal than I am on this blog and at Pro Sulum. Anyway, [...]

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Learn How to Use WordPress from the Pros

Posted on 30 October 2009

Makeuseof.com has a great article that displays some of the latest and greatest tutorials about WordPress.  If you don’t know what WordPress is, it is basically only the best blogging platform out on the Interwebs.  If you are a blogger and are not using a self-hosted WordPress blog, you are seriously missing out.  There is [...]

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Support a Catholic Speaker Month: Michael Cumbie

Posted on 26 October 2009

Matthew Warner over at the Fallible Blogma is sponsoring a cause to support various Catholic speakers.  Essentially, bloggers from around the world are encouraged to support a Catholic speaker and help them to get their name in the spotlight so they can better share their message.  Please head over to Fallible Blogma to check out [...]

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With Friends Like These. . .

Posted on 23 October 2009

Within the past few weeks, I have had the pleasure of meeting some really great people over a variety of social networks. I’d like to introduce you to them and their respective blogs (they are really good), because without them this blog would not have the readership that it has today. In essence, this is [...]

Write a Blog Post in Under 15 Minutes!

Posted on 27 September 2009

Okay, it’s late, but I wanted to see if I could write a blog post in under 15 minutes.  I have been pretty close in the past, but I’ve never really tried to time myself.  Anyway, if you are new to writing or blogging, there are a couple of tips that will help you write [...]

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Make Your Own Holy Day of Obligation Reminder Widget

Posted on 20 September 2009

Tim Bartel from the fantastic Golden Arrow blog asked the following question on one of my WordPress plugin posts: Do you know where i can find a widget for inserting a U.S. Holy Days of Obligation reminder on my blog? Well Tim, I think I have just the thing for you.  Unfortunately, there wasn’t a [...]

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Who is the Best Catholic Speaker of 2009?

Posted on 17 September 2009

Matthew Warner, over at his blog Fallible Blogma, is having a poll to determine who is the best Catholic speaker of 2009.  Of course, it’s no contest that Peter Kreeft and Christopher West are the best. But for some reason they are running behind in the race.

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