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One quick way to improve blog headlines

If that headline caught your attention, it did its job. There's a nice little tool available from CoSchedule that you can use to check the headline that you intend on using. So for the one that I used here it was rated 72 (I presume out of 100) and was given an A+. It contains a good balance of word types, from common to emotional and power. It also informed me:

Your headline is the right length.Headlines 55 characters long tend to earn the highest number of click-throughs.

Your headline is the right length.Headlines with approx 6 words tend to earn the highest number of click-throughs.

I could also see how it would work in an email, what the keywords are, the sentiment, and what it would look like in a Google search result. 

Nice and simple to use, and it was quite fun as well, trying out different sorts of words and phrases. If you're a blogger, this is a tool that is certainly worth using. 

 

Wibbitz - Text to Video

OK, this is quite a fun and funky little tool - give it a URL or an RSS feed and Wibbitz will take the content and turn it into a sort of quick 'headline news' magazine for you. It does come with a very computerised voice, which doesn't work too well, but well enough. This is what my main blog looks like:

 

You can edit the video to change the size of it, and also the theme, so if you don't like the breaking story concept, you could switch it for urban jungle or piano groove for example.

Grogger: create a group weblog

Crowdsource your Content. Use a Grog - a Group Blog to publish the best content of an entire community of contributors. Increase the quality and quantity of your content. Boost your users engagement. Dominate your topic.

Import content from any feed (RSS, Twitter). Transform ordinary users into powerful publishers with incredibly easy publishing tools. Bring in all your topic’s content from all users and around the web.

Empower your community to filter up the best content through voting on posts. Enable editors and selected users to define your site’s voice by featuring the best content.

Register users easily (with Facebook Connect). Give them all profiles. Let them all compete for status with badges and scorecards. Enable community recognition to drive content contribution.

Add an RSS feed to your page quickly with Google

Dynamic Feed Control Wizard. Type in details on the feed, and this will then create a really nice simply scrolling line of recent post headlines.

Typepad - Micro - Features

Typepad - Micro - Features. A free version of Typepad for you to create your blog.

How To Convert Your Blog Articles Into Cool Videos

How To Convert Your Blog Articles Into Cool Videos. Software you download that takes your blog post and links it to images and sounds. Nice 'how to' article.

Coveritlive - live blogging resource

This is a live blogging platform. When you use  Coveritlive  software your commentary is streaming live onto your web pages or blog, so your readers hear from you immediately after that election result comes in, or that terrible play gets called, or the next time an actor gets bleeped at the Oscars. Because they can instantly get their questions to you as well as participate in polling questions you create, there is a reason for them to stay online for a long time... not just check back in once in a while. Once you add in some pictures and videos all in real time, you’ve created an event worth watching. It's currently free while they work out what sort of pricing model they want to go for.

Soup - Publish, collect, share.

Soup - Publish, collect, share.. This is a tumblelog, a super-easy blog that can do more than just text: post links, quotes, videos, audio, files, reviews and events. Make your personal remix of the web: When you see something cool online, just click a button to add it to your Soup. Soup can aggregate everything you create online into one place, in your own style, at your own address. And it's free!

ShoutEm

ShoutEm - Roll your own Microblogging Social Networking. Like Twitter, only you can use it internally to your organization or website or group of friends. It's not yet been launched officially, but I've been playing around with it. You can take a look at my Internetsearch resource at http://internetsearch.shoutem.com/

Typealyzer

Typealyzer. What type of weblog do you have? This is supposed to tell you. Simply whack in the URL and see what it comes back with. This one is 'The Guardian'. This means, according to the site: "The organizing and efficient type. They are especially attuned to setting goals and managing available resources to get the job done. Once they´ve made up their mind on something, it can be quite difficult to convince otherwise. They listen to hard facts and can have a hard time accepting new or innovative ways of doing things.
The Guardians are often happy working in highly structured work environments where everyone knows the rules of the job. They respect authority and are loyal team players. "

Not really me, but it's a bit of fun I suppose!