Markdown para blogger

15 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Sarah Santiago

Escribir Markdown no suele ser un requisito para trabajar como blogger, sobre todo, porque es algo que se aprende en cosa de un par de artículos que escribas. Pero sí lo recomiendo encarecidamente para evitar esos típicos fallos de formato cuando copias de Word un texto y lo pegas sobre el editor de WordPress (por favor, nunca lo hagas). Se trata de una forma limpia y rápida de crear textos para una página web.

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Screenshorts: ¿La siguiente alternativa a los blogs?

15 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Screenshorts alternativa a blogs

Hecho 1
La mayoría de la gente prefiere no leer textos largos.

Hecho 2
A la gente le gustan más las imágenes que los textos.

Siendo asi, parece que una nueva tendencia de compartir textos cortos, los screenshorts, como los llamó Matt Honan, son la conclusión lógica de estos dos hechos. Y lo extraño es que hacen bastante sentido en la situación actual de los medios sociales.

La definición de un Screenshort es: Capturas de pantalla de textos que se comparten como imágenes en Twitter.En un mundo donde lo visual es preferido sobre el texto, era casi obvio que la única manera de poner un mensaje escrito frente a la gente y esperar que fuera leído fuera a través de imágenes de textos, por contradictorio que parezca. Es una manera muy personal y rápida de compartir que además fue completamente creada por los usuarios.

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The Top 10 Reasons Your Business Needs a Blog

15 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Thoughts from the Flying Carpet

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Seven years ago a friend of mine, a traffic manager (his job is to funnel Internet traffic to websites) told me I needed a blog for my Tae Kwon Do studio. I didn’t really believe him, but tried my best to comply. My thought was, “Just one more thing I don’t have time for, added to my To Do List. But I guess I can use it to promote new products and classes.” For a couple years I updated the blog, but it never got me anywhere. Eventually I gave up.

Since then I’ve learned a great deal about marketing my businesses over the Internet. Now I am a regular guest contributor to two different blogs, have been featured in many others, and have even started my own: Thoughts from the Flying Carpet.

What’s made the difference between then and now? Knowledge and experience have taught me to use a…

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Kids Poetry Month: Rhymes & Rhythms!

15 Wednesday Apr 2015

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When most people think of poetry for kids, Shel Silverstein often comes to mind, and rightly so since his poems are a silly and delightful right-of-passage for any child. April, being National Poetry Month, offers the perfect time to take a look at the variety and scope of poetry for children beyond the Silverstein collections. We’ll be taking a look at classics, rhymes & meter, and novels & nonfiction in verse. Today, we feature books that have a great read-aloud rhyme, rhythm, or both!

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Round Is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes
by Roseanne Greenfield Thong, illustrated by John Parra
“Stone metates inside our casa
help us ground our corn to masa.

Rectangles are flags that fly
above the scoreboard, way up high.
How many rectangles do you spy?”

Counting Crows
by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by Rob Dunlavey
“One, two, three,
four, five, six
crows in a nest

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