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Website: http://www.qumana.com/
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QumanaLE Strong Points

• Installation and account set up was a breeze.
• • When you add your blog’s URL, it automatically detects your blogging software and inputs the necessary information for you.
• All of your accounts can be accessed from a drop down menu which means you can easily switch between blogs.
• Their “DropPad” allows you to copy text/images and “drop” them onto the drop pad and save them there until you’re ready to post it.
• You can have more than one editor window open at a time allowing you to edit more than one blog post.*
• Built in thesaurus. Pretty much all desktop blogging applications have a dictionary, but you don’t find too many that have a thesaurus. (more…)

This is just a quick entry to let you all know that WordPress 1.5.1.3 is now available for download. If you haven’t already upgraded, it’s highly recommended in order to fix a security issue that was discovered.

If you don’t want to upgrade, they suggest deleting the XMLRPC file, but if you blog with a desktop application, deleting that file is not an option and it’s highly recommended that you upgrade.

Installation of plugins/extensions is quite simple, but the process may seem foreign to someone who doesn’t do it very often and doesn’t know what’s to be expected during the process.

These instructions are applicable if the extension is saved to your hard drive. I prefer to save the plugins directly to my computer just in case the plugin website goes down or to save time if I need to reinstall a plugin (i.e. no hunting down the website where I originally found it). (more…)

Sometimes internet marketers (and people in general) don’t know when they should keep a secret. We all have our own proprietary trade secrets on how to do one thing or another, but sometimes, some of those secrets should remain a secret. (more…)

Sometimes it’s inevitable that we must step down from blogging at a certain point and time, but you should abandon your blog with some dignity and grace.

A couple of months ago, Rick Bruner announced that he would be taking a hiatus from the Business Blog Consulting blog to further evolve his career and as a fan, I was a little sad to see him go, but I was happy to hear of the new opportunities that came his way.

Following a link to his blog, I quickly realized that he had made the one mistake when leaving his blog that no blogger should ever make: he didn’t turn off comments or trackbacks. The warning signs of spam to come are there and a great source of information is starting to turn into a seedy spam playground. If left untended, the problem will worsen.

Spam can discredit a site faster than lightening. If you would still like to have your blog online for posterity and feel the information would be a great resource for people although it won’t be updated, make sure to turn off the commenting system, or if you’d still like to hear what people are saying, use comment moderation and clean up the comments every once in a while.

Abandoned blogs are what keep spammers doing what they’re doing. Abandoned blogs are the 1% rule (i.e. the 1% of the blogs that it will get through on so as long as the 1% exists, spammers will continue). Please don’t become one of the 1%.