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via: Chantal Coolsma

Blogging Group WBII

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At the Women’s Business Initiative International we recently started a blogging group. The aim is to collaborate, share best practices and most important of all to BLOG. We often, me included, neglect our blogs so this is a great opportunity to post at least one blog before leaving the room.

Sparks are flying in the room and idea’s are being shared, one blog post down, 3 to go for me as I have more blogs. Here’s a list of the bloggers who attended, well worth a visit! So far I think all attendees are WordPress bloggers too!

Bloggers:
Melinda Roos – melindaroos.com
Navah Hocstein – tag-on.com
Nina du Pre – ninadupre.com
Natalie Carstens – tigscreations.com
Suzy Oge – suzyoge.com

How to intergrete social media icons into your WordPress website

There are several ways to link to your social media profiles on your website. If you are not handy with html then you might want to go for the easy option and install a WordPress plugin like Social media page that will link to over 100 websites. Simply install the plugin, acitvate and go to the settings page, add your profiles and in some cases additional information. You can then add your list as a widget in the side bar or add it to a page.

The other option is to add icons with html and link them to your social media profiles. A great site is Icon Dock, which recently updated their icon pack with Hyves (Dutch networking site) and FourSquare icons. Komodo Media also has a rich and refined social media icon pack for all major websites.

Maybe you are not yet familiar with html, why not give it a go? There are heaps of websites (like divageeks.com) where you can find links to free icon resources. Why not make your icons look different than everybody else’s! If you are ready to take the plunge into your first html experiment follow the steps after the jump. Continue reading »