How to automatically archive a blog R...

UPDATE:  Unfortunately, JoliPrint – the service mentioned in this post has now shut down.  What a shame. Ever wanted to archive blog posts to PDF?  No?  Well, me neither until recently.  But my sales team like to send blog posts to prospects from time to time to support a pitch.  They used to copy and paste them into Word or simply email the link.  But here’s a way that every blog post could be automatically printed to a nicely formatted PDF and archived to Dropbox (or alternative) – available moments after the blog is published; ready to send. This...

How to Link and Tweet Sections of your B...

Do you ever write blog posts or web copy that are chock full of useful snippets of information?  Wouldn’t it be great if you could make it easy for your readers to tweet them in isolation – as opposed to the entire blog post? Something like this perhaps: 60% of B2B marketers improved their search ranking with social media [tweet this] 42% of iPhone purchasers in April 2012 were switching from another smartphone [tweet this] Google has paid out over $30B via adsense, Apple has paid over $5B to app developers to-date [tweet this] Roughly 250 million users have...

Blogsy – the blogging app for the ...

It’s a beautiful late-spring morning and I’m writing this blog while sitting in my garden. And that’s the great thing about the iPad – it goes where you go, more easily than so many other devices. Originally, when the iPad was first released – everyone said that it was purely for consumption; you won’t be used for producing anything. I think that view has changed now – especially with the iPad 3. If you blog, there are a few app choices for you now. I wrote about DraftCraft a few months back, WordPress has its own app.. but the...

Blogging with Evernote Tip

Evernote is my second brain now.  I use it to store all kinds of things – meeting notes, useful blogs and other sites, goals, every book I have read in the past 10 years.. and more recently, I’ve been using it for blogging. I use Evernote to keep a growing list of blog topic ideas, but I also sometime use it to actually write the blog posts.  Sometimes I start one.. and then leave it alone for a bit and writing “offline” gives me a better user experience sometimes. The Problem Once I have written the post, I then open up WordPress and copy and...

iPad app for writing blogs: DraftCraft

  The wordpress iPad app is nice, but does not provide a pleasant environment for writing blogs in my opinion. And so when I read about a new app called DraftCraft designed for doing nothing else but writing.. I thought I’d download it and give it a go. In fact, I am writing this review using the app now which seemed the most appropriate method to test it. Just write First impressions are positive. It really provides you with a nice clean UI in which you don’t need to think about issues like HTML, templates, etc. The idea is the you just focus on writing....