Blogger's tools

Like an e mail id, blogs are fast becoming an essential requirement for organizations and individuals.an offshoot of this trend is the mushrooming of tools that add more value to a blog.i am putting up few such tools for you people.

1. when a visitor reads a blog post and finds it useful , he/she may develop an urge to immediately update his/her friends. A blogger should exploit this potential enthusiasm of the reader as it might funnel more relevant traffic to his blog. This necessitates your blog to have the required tools that enable a reader to contact his/her friends via the channel of his/her choice (IM and e-mail) with ease. The ‘Tell-a-friend’ widget from Socialtwist http://socialtwist.com/ is developed to meet this requirement. The widget allows a blog’s visitor to invoke a mail service (like gmail, yahoo mail) or an IM service (like GoogleTalk and MSN) without leaving the blog and send a message to selected friends in one shot.

2. Though English is a global language, a large share of netizens is from non-English speaking countries. This means, if a blog or web site can provide some means to translate the web page content to other languages, it could attract more readers. The free web translation widget, ConveyThis ( http://www.conveythis.com/), ably serves this need. Once embedded on your blog/site, ‘ConveyThis’ helps the site visitor translate the blog’s content to any language with the help of popular language translation services like Google and Babelfish.

3. Another tool worth embedding on your blog is the real-time site traffic stats feed provided by Feedjit (http://feedjit.com/). Once placed on a blog, the tool displays the details of each of the visitors to it (like the page visited, visitor’s geographical location and the like).

4. Yet another service worth a look in this context is Wowzio ( http://www.wowzio.com/), which provides a variety of slideshow widgets.Some or all your blog posts may have photographs attached to it. If all these photographs can be combined into a slide show (with each slide linked to its corresponding blog entry), blog readers would easily get an overview of its content by just watching the slideshow. Wozio’s slideshow widget helps one easily accomplish this.

u can find all this in my blog now..hope u find this information useful n make use of it.