Most people nowadays blog, we write about anything and everything, we like to share our stories and ideas.
Computers are the way we use to blog; well, not for me! Thank god I have and iPod Touch and some cool apps that help me blog anywhere, anytime!
So, here is the apps that I think will give you the best mobile blogging experience:


1) First you need something to write and post with; BlogPress will do that. It's easy to use, let you write, edit and manage posts from ( Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, Drupal, ...etc ). The app problem is that you can't change font color, size and such stuff! you can only write and post pics; but you can always edit them later on pc.

2)  Sometimes you need to make simple sketches and hand drawings, for fun or to explain something; while there is many apps to do this, free and paid, I recommend autodesk SketchBook! you can do everything with it. and export pics as PNG or photoshop file ( Yes, you can make and draw in layers ).




3) Who doesn't put images in his post?! images make posts come alive. To get the image you want, use Flicker app or Google Image Search.
For editing images, there is three apps I like; Photoshop mobile, which is free but lacks some features, Photogene, very good for editing and 101 Photo Effects for applying filters ( more than 100 filters ).

4)  For podcasters, try iTalk, the free recording app from griffin; it's very good for recording in high quality.
Cinch is another free recording and podcasting app, but I haven't tried it yet.

5) If you have a blog, then you probably want to tell people about your blog and what you write about. One of the best ways for marketing your blog posts is Twitter, and the best tool for using Twitter on iPhone is Twitterrific! free, beautiful interface and easy-to-use.


6) As blogger, I bet that you like to always keep an eye on your blog, how many visitors come by and what they read; chances that you are already using Google Analytics. There is many apps for iPhone that shows GA results, but may favourite is a new simple app called Pocket GA; here is some pics for it:




Hope you find this useful!
If you have any app that you think it worth adding, please leave me a comment.

The world is becoming more complex day after day; to cope with this complexity, we need to learn, adapt and change; but this continues learning leads to a big problem, stress.
Stress is affecting both our personal and work life negatively, so we need to manage and control it.
Looking around and reading about stress management, I found three interesting ways:


1) Time Management
2) Predictable and Required Time-offs
3) Self-Assessment

In this post I'm going to talk about the self-assessment method.
What you need to do here is find and identify what is important in your life, the things that you value and you care about; here is a sketch I made to help you easily understand how to identify these things:

So as you see in the sketch,  identify the important things in your life with self-assessment; meaning you take a look at yourself and the world around you:

• Look at yourself and think "what do I value most?"; you can do that by looking backward to your past and see what in the past made you the man you are now, the experiences and stories that made you reach this point. Another practice is to imagine yourself in the future; what do you want to be? and how you want to achieve that? what difference and effect you want to make to people around you?
•  After having a look inside yourself, think of people who matter to you most in three domains: in family, at work and people from the community you live in, and ask yourself "what these people expect of me? how do I affect their lives?", and even go and ask them what do they expect of you.

Now that you had a look inside and outside you, you know what is important for you; knowing this help and let you experiment! and try different ways to do things, which in return help you save time and focus more on things that matter, reducing the pressure you face.


If you are a worker, then try to do the method above, identify what is value and important, experiment and find new and better ways of getting things done. If you are a manager or leader, encourage your team members to do this, give them more space and empower them to do their tasks in the way they find better for themselves, let them think and try different ways of getting task done, which in return will improve their efficiency and effectiveness! this will improve the work and tasks done, and will let them find time to focus in their personal lives.


This was a simple method for managing stress by Stewart D. Friedman, from his book "Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life" .... note that you can find more methods for self-assessment on his book; I haven't read it yet, but I will soon.

Hope you find this useful.

Engaging visitors is the holy mission for every blogger and website owner, because engaging them would improve your site, your content and increase your visitors.
A new service that takes engaging visitors to new way is TweetBoard, which is an instant Twitter-powered forum for your blog or website.

"Tweetboard pulls your Twitter stream in real-time, reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting"; with this tool you can have a conversation with your visitors in easy intuitive way, and visitors can see recent activities in your blog.

The beauty of this small tool is it's placed in blog as a sidebar, which expands on-demand, so you don't have to worry about taking out space of your blog.

"Each time your webiste visitors post via your Tweetboard, a link back to the corresponding conversation is appended to their tweet, creating a viral stream of traffic proportional to the volume of tweeting performed via your Tweetboard.


I should mention that this service is free, but still in alpha, so you have to request and invite for now.


I have TweetBoard installed in my blog, you can see the tab on the left side; go check it out and tell me what you think

I was looking around for some twitter tools, and I found this tool for twitter that can tell you "How much is your twitter profile worth"!; The creator claims the value is calculated with a Ph.D algoritm that is based on the public information available on your Twitter profile.


http://tweetvalue.com/


I don't know if this is true or not; but if it is, I think this tool would be for much value for marketers who use twitter as it would help estimating followers values!
By the way, my twitter profile is worth $9 till now :) 

so go check it out and have fun

Do you like social networking?
Do you like to have the same username for all accounts? Then this small website is for you:
www.usernamecheck.com
Just go to the site, enter the desired username, and it will show you if it's available or not in more than 65 sites!


Hope this was useful :)