What You Need to Know About the Ghost Open Source Blogging Platform

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A number of interesting social media tools for bloggers have emerged in 2017, but let’s not forget the power of a solid blogging platform. Without a reliable foundation for your blog, maximizing online exposure through social media is like putting the cart before the horse.

Starting and running a blog that can grow into a business requires specific tools of the trade. Many of which are completely foreign to new bloggers. You have something to say, but putting those words onto a web page isn’t always intuitive.

One of the newest publishing platforms for bloggers has been four years in the making, but all that research and development won’t cost you a penny. Ghost 1.0 is the latest free platform to give bloggers a WordPress alternative.

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Call for Minimalism: How the New Wave of Blogging Platforms Gives More by Going Less

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WordPress has become synonymous with blogging.

Over the years, this blogging platform has provided people the opportunity to create their own little online space where they can write whatever’s on their minds. This activity has spread onto others like wildfire, as hundreds and thousands of users have registered for a WordPress account to do the same.

Seeing how effective blogging is, businesses tried their hands at it, producing blog posts catered to their target audience with the purpose of gaining leads and customers.

Along the way, however, WordPress just stopped becoming a blog. In fact, it started to become even more than just a blog, if not better. [Read more…]

Tumblr Reaches 20 Billion Posts, Almost Forgets To Tell Everyone

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Tumblr 20 Billion PostsLeave it to the team at Tumblr to nearly forget to mention that they’ve reached 20 billion posts. The company used a rather casual tweet to its 237,000 followers to make mention of the mathematical big milestone.

In the tweet the company said:

“Forgot to make a big deal of this earlier.”

For a company that just got its start in 2007 they should be considering the feat a big deal, especially when considering that the company’s massive content is almost solely created by users who are not paid or even asked by the company to create content.  [Read more…]