Leafletter – Interactive Mini Website with Rich Content

Leafletter is a web based tool, making it possible for any user with no relation to the web publishing experience to create easily a great-looking micro-website out of any text, images, or video clips, you may want to utilize. The resulting visual mini image portfolio is completely navigable and can be embedded into any web or blog page effortlessly.

A Leaflet can contain one or more pages. Each page can be a single video or present a combination of up to 20 various pieces of media and notes ("Blocks"). Each Block displays a preview of the media and, when clicked, presents the complete media.

The same Leaflet can be used as a stand-alone mini-site with unique URL address, or can be published to an unlimited number of blogs, web sites, social networks, and even desktops. The Statistics panel will tell you about new locations, views, and interactions with your Leaflet. Updating a Leaflet immediately updates it across all locations. Using the Share tab, you can publish a Leaflet to dozens of preset locations with one click, and to any other location by copying and pasting the Embed Code to that location or platform.

The following media files are supported in the Leafletter Blocks: Uploaded Image, Remote Image, Uploaded MP3, Remote MP3, Uploaded Video, YouTube Video, and Note (Rich Text including Hyperlinks).

Website: http://www.leafletter.com/Home.html

Unfortunately, Leafletter is not currently accepting new sign ups. If you would like to be notified when this changes, please send an email to qa@leafletter.com to be placed on the waiting list. 

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All Social Profiles in One Button: SocialFollow

SocialFollow is a cool new web application that combines all of your other social networking and social bookmarking profiles. You probably as many active bloggers, or just social networks customers, have your accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, and many other profiles around the net. It would be nice if your blog visitors will become your followers on one or few sites, where they have accounts as well.

With SocialFollow, you are able to combine all of these profiles into one handy button. These are great for embedding to your blog, sharing in your forum signature, or posting it anywhere around the web!

Through the freely available services, you can create a button that can be embedded wherever you choose on the web, contains personalized links to the social accounts that you use. All your blog visitor has to do is rollover the button to find the links to your accounts. Not only can the accounts that are linked to be customized but the appearance of the button itself can also be changed to some extent. With a Social Follow button, you can consolidate everything one time and not have to think about it again.

You just sign up online and then add the corresponding social links one by one. A string of code will be generated for you to embed at your blog or web page.

Website address: http://www.socialfollow.com/

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Entrecard - virtual business card directory

Entrecard is one of the few blogging networks, which considered being quite useful for the blog promotion by many respected and successful bloggers. There you can buy and sell ad space for credits, which you can use for spreading a word about your own site.


Entrecard is actually a virtual online business card directory. By creating your online business card, you can use your blog as a social networking tool to increase traffic, , reach new readers, or just to make new friends.

How it works

• When you put the Entrecard widget on your blog, your visitors are able to leave you their virtual business cards. All cards received are stored in your dashboard.
• You can find the blog sites you like and click on the "drop" link on their widget. This is how you give your business card to people you want to network with.
• You can communicate directly with people in your network through our private messaging system.
• By giving your business card way, you earn Entrecard credits! It is a virtual currency. You can buy/sell/trade services with other users using earned Entrecard credits.
• The service is free for all users.

For a limited time only, community is offering new users 200 free credits when they become active members of the Entrecard community. The promotional credits will encourage new users to spend their credits and become familiar with the Entrecard system.

There is also promotion for current site users. You can promote Entrecard through the referral program and receive 800 credits for every new referral that joins Entrecard. You can promote Entrecard on blog posts or by putting our pre-made banners on your blog.

Get your unique referral code and pre-made banners here: http://entrecard.com/r/referring

You can access Entrecard site through the link: http://entrecard.com/

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Free Blogs Templates Creator

There are multiple blogs with the same templates on the Web. Does that bother you that the same template you are using, can be found elsewhere? If that does, you might find interesting to take a look on the free web-based templates self-designer.

Psycho is an exclusive weblog template designer for the following blogging platforms: Blogger (Classic), Persian Blog, BlogFa. It will help you to make the following:

• Create your ever-wished template in less than 10 minutes!
• Walk on the edges of template design without any HTML knowledge!
• Have W3C valid XHTML template, which will bring a higher ranking in search engines and eventually more hits.
• Fix the browser's incompatibility.
• Accelerate the loading time and style of your page.
• Have CSS-Based template: The page can never be lighter and cleaner than it!
• Always be capable to modify and share your template easily by saving your format in the PsycHodrama!

PsycHo is

• An Open-Source project: You can read and even modify thousand lines of its javascript codes under terms of GPL.
• Absolutely free of charge: You don't need to pay for anything!
• Based on a single DHTML page: No submission or lag it has!
• Working offline: Just get the page and hang the connection up; it works yet!

Notes:

• As PsycHo's generated templates have absolutely no warranty, it's strongly recommended to get a backup of your current template before pasting new code and making any modifications. Actually, it is a generic advice that is suitable for anything you do with your template code.
• PsycHo generates Blogger templates only for the old Blogger, and they are not completely compatible with new Blogger. Fortunately you can still use them on new Blogger! Just tell it (Blogger service) that you wish to use an old (Blogger says classic) template in cost of losing Blogger's new features like labels and etc.
  To do that, in template area of Blogger, instead of pasting the HTML code (output of PsycHo), click on Revert to Classic Template link at the bottom of the box. Then, when you went to the classic menu (where Change the NavBar menu appears), paste the code and click "Save Template Changes".
• FireFox is a recommended browser, while creating your template.

Author: Aideen NasiriShargh

Website: http://psyc.horm.org

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Better Tracking of Visitors Interaction on your Blog

Do you mind, if somebody uses the content posted on your blog or website pages? I personally do not mind. However, it would be nice if there will be ability to track all the cases, when content is copied, and the proper credit will be presented. The Tynt Tacer free service for web masters make that wish easy to achieved.

What does Tracer do?

Tracer secretly tracks when users copy content from your web site and automatically adds a link back to the original page when your content is pasted. So, why do I need Tracer?

Tracer is a brand new way to:

• Generate more visits and page views
• Get credit when content is copied from your site
• Measure and understand user engagement
• Improve your search engine ranking

Generate more visits and page views

The automatically added attribution link provides return traffic to your site when your content is shared without your knowledge.

Get credit when content is copied from your site

The automatically added link back ensures you get credit for content that you have created. You can’t stop users from copying from your site but you can improve the chances of getting credit for your content.

Measure and understand user engagement

Tracer allows you to view statistics on how often content is copied from your site, what that content is and what keywords are being copied most. This helps you better understand which content is most interesting to your users.

Our data shows that those pages that users engage with most are not necessarily those with the most page views.

Tracer allows you to identify the most popular content on your site so you can:

• Provide high quality data to your advertisers, over and above page view stats.
• Learn which stories users forward most using our copy/paste technology.
• Produce content more closely aligned with what your users are interested in.
• Optimize your search terms or keywords.

Improve your search engine ranking

The number one signal that search engines use to determine how relevant your site is, and therefore how high your site ranks, is the number and quality of links that link back to your site. Tracer automatically adds a link back to your site when content is copied and pasted. When your content is pasted onto a blog, Twitter, or another web site it has a direct impact on your search ranking.

By seeing what words and phrases users are copying from your site you can better understand how you might select your keywords, meta-tags, tags, and even ad-words.

Also, Tynt.com is an increasingly popular place for people to find interesting web sites and content and generates visits to your site when content is copied.

Who needs Tracer?

• Sites that would like to increase traffic and page views.
• Sites that would like to better understand what content is most engaging.
• Writers or content creators that would like credit for their work when it is copied.
• Writers or content creators who would like to see which content is the most engaging and/or the most popular. Keep in mind that page views alone don’t necessarily mean that the user engages with content.
• Sites selling advertising who would like to find out which pages can drive higher advertising rates.

How to Install

First, you need to register for a free account, to register for an account and as soon as your request will be processed, you will receive an email including:

• A single line of java script to add to your web page html code.
• A link to your personal Tracer Statistics Dashboard giving you valuable insight into what is being copied from your site.

Sign for free and get tracer for your pages: http://www.tynt.com/tracer/home

Video Presentation:

Tynt Tracer

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Free E-cards System Embedded in your Blog

Competition for the readers’ hearts and minds in the world of blogging is quite severe. Every blog owner asks himself multiple questions on how he can differentiate his site from other and gain competitive advantage over the rivals. There is no single way to become a winner, each one choose the trail that fit the site owner personality, expertise, site character and content.

KangarooCards free services might be a great assistance for some sites to provide additional incentives to their visitors.

At KangarooCards it is possible to add a free e-card design and delivery system to any website. You need to set up your own e-card account at KangarooCards.net, install the provided unique scrip, and your visitors will be able to send e-cards from your website all around the world. Because it is fully customizable you can integrate it perfectly into your website.

Main Features:

• Good integration into your website.
  
• Add your own e-cards.
  
• Add cards from our public e-card database (25000 e-cards).
  
• Services are free of charge. You can use this system on your own website and send as many cards as you like to as many people as you want without any costs at all.

See an example of the KangarooCards system use - make your own sample card.
I created the card through this guest link - click to enlarge:

KangarooCards

Developers website: http://www.kangaroocards.net/

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Embed Documents in your Blog with Scribd

In one of the previous publications Embed Documents in your Blog with DocsToc I have presented the opportunity to embed the entire documents in your blog posts for easy viewing. Now, I had an opportunity to test it myself, but, for some reason, my Blogger editor crashed and refused to accept the code. It is possible that the problem is just temporary, but as all of you “I need it now!” So, I went back on the market searching for the good alternative. And, there it is - I found a good one! It is Scribd!

Scribd is allowing to anyone for free to upload any documents on their website, to view them later with online viewer iPaper, and to share with community members and with anybody you like. Built with Adobe Flash, iPaper will display documents in the same way regardless of whether you’re using Windows, MacOS, or Linux. Your readers no longer have to download files or extra software to view your documents.


You can convert just about any major document format into iPaper, including Word docs, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, OpenOffice documents, and PostScript files. Supported formats include:

• Adobe PDF (.pdf)
• Adobe PostScript (.ps)
• Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps, .pptx)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls, xlsx)
• OpenOffice Text Document (.odt, .sxw)
• OpenOffice Presentation Document (.odp, .sxi)
• OpenOffice Spreadsheet (.ods, .sxc)
• All OpenDocument formats
• Plain text (.txt)
• Rich text format (.rtf)

Once you’ve uploaded your documents and converted them to iPaper, you can publish them to Scribd - the world’s largest library of user-generated documents. Scribd documents are indexed by major search engines, so you can broaden your audience and share your creative works with the world.

Scribd’s iPaper document viewer is embeddable in any website or blog. Get your HTML code, embed it in your post, and… see how it looks like:

Inside Your Computer - Upload a Document to Scribd

Read this document on Scribd: Inside Your Computer

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