#AD Have Great Digital Skills? You Could Make Money Teaching with Pluralsight!

Pluralsight Seeks Digital Teachers to Create Online Courses!

Pluralsightt, dedicated to providing great training for Digital Developers since 2004 has been growing by leaps and bounds. If you have great digital skills and a passion to helping others improve their skills, you could make money developing online courses with Pluralsight.

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What types of courses does Pluralsight offer?

Pluralsight Digital Online Courses

Plurarsight Helps Take Your Digital Skills to the Next Level

Pluralsight offers a wide variety of online courses to help people increase their digital skills. Want to teach kids computer programming? Improve your Photoshop skills? Create Apps? Sell Video Games? You name it, they have it.

With over 4,000 online courses, you might think Pluralsight has all bases covered, but as we all know, the digital world is constantly changing, and your skills are needed.

How Does Pluralsight Pay Teachers? 

Plurasight works collaboratively with teachers to help them develop their online digital courses and curriculum. When you've completed a course you're paid for completing the course, plus residuals for as long as people are taking the course.

What are the courses like?

Courses can be taken on a wide variety of devices including laptops, desktops, and even phones, so courses are available whenever and wherever web developers want to increase their digital skills.

Pluralsight courses offer free previews, and consist of several modules.

Take advantage of a free 10 day trial at Plurasight to check out their courses, and contact Plurasightt with your course ideas.

Wishing you success,

Suzanne.

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About Suzanne Sholer

Suzanne Sholer BA B.Ed

Growing up a daughter of serial entrepreneurs, gave me an appreciation for small business marketing.  Add to that  a passion for empowering others, a B.A. B.Ed with undergrad courses in psychology of marketing gained through media studies, and you get Blogged Tips - A DIY file of Social Media Tips where I blog solutions to Social Media questions.
Need help implementing this tip or with another Social Media conundrum? Drop a confidential comment with your email address on any post.

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Google Plus Profile Picture Size - Free Template!

Setting Up Your Google Plus Page? This Free Template May Help!

Setting Up your G+ Page? Wondering about Google Plus profile picture sizes?  Here's a free template that may help.
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So what size should a Google Plus Profile pic be?
Glad you asked.

Creating Your Google Plus Profile Icon

Google Plus profile photos must be at least 250 px x 250 px. When setting up our latest G+ page we experimented with various picture sizes, and developed a free template you might find useful for creating your G+ profile photo.
If you upload a 250 x 250px  to be your Google Plus Profile photo, you'll find it shows the edges in your G+ Profile pic like this.

Google Plus Profile Photo Size Example

In the example above, we used a 14 pt font in Lobster and Arial.
If you upload a 275 x 275 pix photo for your G+ profile picture, you'll get better results, as shown in the Google Plus Profile pic upload screenshot below.

The Google Plus Profile Pic upload cropping process removes the outer edge making a cleaner profile photo. Here's the screen shot of the 275 x 275 pix image used for a Google Plus profile photo - No edges showing!

Google Plus Profile Image 275 x 275 px

To help readers of Blogged Tips make  Google+ Profile images more easily, we're sharing our Google Plus profile picture template.

How to Use the Free Google Plus Profile Photo Template

This Free Template is in Google Drive. and has an invisible inner square 250 x 250 px to help our readers align the most important parts of their Google+ Profile pic in the centre of the 275 x 275 px Google Profile Photo.

Free Template G+  Profile Photo Screen Shot

Using the Free Blogged Tips Google Plus Profile Picture Template is as easy as 1-2-3.

1. Copy the Free Blogged Tips Google Plus Profile Picture Template.
2. Add your own image or words.
3. Download your new Google Plus Profile Pic as a  png file, and upload it to your Google + Page.

To see all the steps in our Google + Profile Photo Experiment check out the file on Google Plus .
Note: This link will open with a 3rd party ad. Click "Skip Ad" in the top right corner to proceed to the file.
G+ Profile Photo Experiment http://adf.ly/4009826/g-profile-photo-experiment-file
Wishing you success,
+Suzanne

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About Suzanne Sholer

Suzanne Sholer BA B.Ed

Growing up a daughter of serial entrepreneurs, gave me an appreciation for small business marketing.  Add to that  a passion for empowering others, a B.A. B.Ed with undergrad courses in psychology of marketing gained through media studies, and you get Blogged Tips - A DIY file of Social Media Tips where I blog solutions to Social Media questions.
Need help implementing this tip or with another Social Media conundrum? Drop a confidential comment with your email address on any post.

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Free Embeddable Online Character Count Tool by JavaScriptKit! 5 SEO Tips Using JavaScriptKit Tools!

How Many Characters? Great SEO Tool!

Need Search Engine Optimization? Long tail key words in your first 150 characters for meta descriptions are essential. Count your characters, and find out how embedding this tool on your site could help increase your SEO.

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Sure You Want to Use an Alexa Tool Bar? [Review]

Alexa Tool Bar Tips!

Installing an Alexa Tool Bar Increases Alexa Ranking! Wow! pretty nifty right? Maybe,or maybe not.Here are some tips and a caveat to consider about using the Alexa Tool Bar.

How Does an Alexa Tool Bar Work?

Alexa Tool bars or Alexa  Extensions once installed, collect data on the user's browsing behaviour which is transmitted to the Alexa Website where it is stored and analyzed forming the basis for the Alexa's Web traffic reporting. Alexa Toolbars are the equivalent of the Neilson TV rating system,they don’t record all consumer behaviour,only the behaviour of the users,therefore the accuracy of an Alexa Ranking is sometimes questioned. There is much speculation over whether using an Alexa tool bar will help increase Google Page rank. Some say using an Alexa tool bar helps bring Google bots to your site more frequently,and others say using Alexa tools does not affect Google ranking at all.Despite the controversy about Alexa's Ranking system, Alexa Ranking is a very popular standard for many advertisers deciding whether to purchase advertising on your site.

Alexa Tool Bar or Alexa Extension?

Alexa offers its Free App as a tool bar for Mozilla Firefox,

and a Tool Bar for Internet Explorer, but my favourite version is the Alexa Extension for Google Chrome.  Nice,compact,circle - simple elegance. Just one more reason, many people choose to use Google Chrome as a browser.

Alexa Tool Bar Features

The Alexa Tool Bar and Alexa Extension offer the following features:

• Alexa Traffic Rank: See how popular a website is with other Alexa users- useful when trying decide whether to advertise on a site.
  
• Related Links: Find sites that are similar to the site you are visiting -great for comparison shopping.
  
• Wayback: See how a site looked in the past- this can give insights into a site's performance as well.
  
• Hot Pages & Searches: See what's popular on the web right now -helpful for determining useful keywords and trends.
  
• Website Reviews: See what other people thought of this site or write your own - see if you can persuade others to write a review of your site!

Caveat -A Word To the Wise Regarding Browsing with Alexa

Since the Alexa Tool bar,or Alexa Extension records all your browsing activity,there may be some times,you will not want it activated. Think for a minute about what you might not want Alexa to record...that's right-your competitor's website. Just as you do not want to arrive at your competitor's website by clicking a result in a search,unless you want to increase competitors Alexa ranking,you will want to deactivate your Alexa Extension or Alexa Tool bar when browsing their site.

How to Deactivate your Google Chromes Alexa Extension

Deactivating your Alexa Extension for Google Chrome,is easy-just follow these steps:

1. Click the wrench in the top right corner of Google Chrome
   
2. Mouse over the Tools Menue
   
3. Click 'Extensions'
   
4. Look for the Alexa Extension and remove the Tick from 'Enabled'
   
5. Now Your Alexa Extension is Disabled.

When you want to add Alexa points to a site,simply go back and tick the 'Enabled' box again. Ready to install an Alexa Tool Bar or Alexa Extension? Here is the link: http://www.alexa.com/

Now it's your turn-What do you think about the Alexa Tool bar and Alexa Ranking system? Leave a comment saying you reviewed Blogged Tips using our Alexa reviews gadget,and I'll be please to pop over and return the favour!

Suzanne 

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Try Picnik - Powerful Free Photo Editing App!

With Picnik's Free Options Why Upgrade? [Review]

Update: Picnik, unfortunately was discontinued, but many of its functions are now integrated into Picasa.

Picnik has to be one of my all time favourite free apps available on the internet both for taking screenshots and working with photos. Picnik also offers a reasonably priced upgrade - only $24.95 a year,which you may want to take advantage of, but personally I've been using the free App for about 4 years,and only occasionally thought of getting the upgrade. This is a brief overview of what you can,and can't do with Picnik. Here are just a few things that this Powerful free App has allowed me to do.

Picnik Screenshots:

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Automatically Publishing Your Blog To Facebook?: RSS Graffiti!

RSS Graffiti Beats Networked Blogs -Review

While Networked Blogs helps bring higher Search Engine ranking,and can bring more followers to your blog,than RSS Graffiti , when it comes to increasing the sharing of your posts, RSS Graffiti beats Networked Blogs hands down. While I highly recommend registering your blog at Networked Blogs, I am in the midst of switching al my blog feeds to RSS Graffiti.  Want to know why? Leave a comment,and I'll answer.

I;m writing this on the fly,and hoping to finish it tomorrow.After I reset my feeds to RSS Graffiti When I get a question,I’ll know someone wants the answer,and I’ll finish this post.

Suzanne

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Twitter Tool-Read this Before Using FollowFriday Helper

FollowFriday Helper Tips

Using Twitter? #FollowFriday or #ff, may be something you're familiar with, or quite new. Follow Friday is a way of recommending certain people as worthy of following, but how do you decide whom to recommend or follow? What is the best way of recommending someone? What do yo need to watch for when you are using this handy tool?

Why Do You Recommend A Twitter User?

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PrintFriendly Button Add it Today!

Environmentally Friendly PrintFriendly Saves Trees

Difficulty level: Easy to Intermediate

Help your blog or website visitors save paper and ink when printing things from your blog or website by installing a free PrintFriendly Widget.  Usually web pages do not look the same on printed and will sometimes take reams more paper as well.  If you are uncomfortable with fiddling with html code, you might like to simply add a link to the PrintFriendly site  so readers can input your page url themselves. Here are the details from their site:

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iGoogle,Gmail Blogging Tips

Quick Blogger Posts : Blogger Posting Gadget
Find out different ways to blog directly from email  or your iGoogle home page to a Blogger blog.

The Blogger Posting Gadget is meant to save people time by allowing them to post directly from their Gmail account and iGoogle home page. I love time saving gadgets, but I think there are better, more versatile solutions, As alternatives, I suggest using the "Add this" browser extension for posting online content and setting up the option to email to Blogger. The "Add This" browser extension allows you to blog online content to a multitude of sites, thus it is much more versatile then the Blog Post Gadget. Emailing directly to a Blogger blog can also be done from any email client, thus giving more versatility once again. See the directions below for using "eMail to Blogger" , "Add This" , and "Blogger Post Gadget".

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Handy Twitter Tool Tweet Spinner

TWEET SPINNER HELPS MANAGE Twitter Followers

TWITTER Tuesday Tool Profile

Tweet Spinner just popped onto my horizon through a Tweet from “@georgeclegg” who apparently uses it to manage his followers. I am starting to really see the value in having a utility like Tweet Spinner as my followers are starting to climb exponentially, and I want to be sure I follow people back who take the time to follow me. At the same time, I’m getting a little tired of tagging after some of these accounts that want to send me spammy DM messages, and don’t even have the courtesy to follow me back.
Tweet Spinner Features List
Here are the features available in Tweet Spinner:

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