So with some help from my friends at The Portland Internet Company, I think I’ve got some resource links in a fixed position on the left side of my blog. (Check out what they’re doing for MySpace profiles).
I added links to resource pages about tagging tools and Attention Streams.
Perhaps most interesting, I added a page that contains my working definition of Web 2.0, some key resources on the topic and an automated dynamic news wire of recent definitions of Web 2.0 from around the blogosphere. I like that page.
I’ve added more visible links to my introductions:
- Blogging Basics
- Tagging (both social bookmarking and adding tags to the ends of your blog posts)
- What is RSS?
I hope that these links will increase the usability of my blog, especially regarding the kinds of introductory information that tends to get the most traction with readers. I believe that sidebars don’t get looked at as much as they could, so I hope that by putting some key links outside my full sidebar and putting them in a fixed position they will be seen and used more.
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