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The Beginner’s Guide to Blog Analytics from Urbanspoon

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I like checking out the Urbanspoon newsletter – it is a great way to learn about new food bloggers in my city.   Today’s newsletter includes a link to a new post on the Urbanspoon blog with 2 things I’m … Continue reading

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Local Beer and Local Community

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David Ackley who is the blogger behind The Local Beer Blog wrote a post on Friday titled  - This is What Local is All About.  Ackley’s post highlights another post by a beer blogger Bryan Roth titled – A Few … Continue reading

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Our Top 12 Posts from 2012

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Inspired by the Best of Tumblr tool we blogged about a few weeks ago – we were wondering which posts were most popular in 2012.  We tested some of the most popular post WordPress plugins – but none of the … Continue reading

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3 of Our Favorite WordPress Plugins

Here is a look at some of the Wordpress plugins that we have installed on all of our Wordpress blogs. Nothing fancy but each plugin is helpful in its own way. What are your favorite Wordpress plugins? Continue reading

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I Heart Denver Owner Featured on Apartment Therapy

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One of our favorite Denver blogs is I Heart Denver – which is a shop in Denver, CO that sell s only items from Denver artists and gives 70% of the sales back to the artists.  We love following the … Continue reading

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Grub With Local Bloggers

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Writing a local blog isn’t just about being part of a local online community, blogging can be a  a great way to connect to people offline as well.  I started writing about Pittsburgh at IheartPGH.com in 2005.  IheartPGH quickly became … Continue reading

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Block By Block 2012 and Recap of 2011

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Block By Block is an online community of independent news publishers that lives online at www.blockbyblock.us and hosts an annual summit in Chicago.  The 3rd annual summit will be held on September 13-15, 2012.  General Registration opened last week for … Continue reading

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Local Starts with Jersey Shore, PA

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Check out the Kickstarter Project for a new quarterly publication  Local: A Quarterly of People and Places (website, blog).  One of the inspirations for BlogLocal is creating away to show off the great places that people live, work and play.  The big cities … Continue reading

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