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How to Manage a Complex Group Blog - Interview with Gina Trapani at Problogger

by Sheryl Sisk

Mornin’, campers! I don’t know about y’all but I’m barely able to keep my eyes open this Monday morning. Makes me glad I’ve got a simple little one-person blog here, and not something complex like, oh, say, Lifehacker? However, we can all learn something from Gina Trapani, who keeps Lifehacker going with some killer apps, great editors, and boundless energy. Gina’s interviewed at Problogger - first installation here, second here.

The second part to this interview features Gina’s favorite blogging tools:

What are your top 5 Blogging Tools?

1. Google Reader for RSS feeds. (Here’s why I switched from Bloglines)
2. Gmail for handling the daily onslaught of reader email.
3. Google Analytics and Sitemeter for traffic stats. (Here’s how I use Analytics to constantly improve and tweak the site)
4. Firefox along with some key extensions - like AutoCopy
5. AutoHotKey (Windows) and TextExpander (Mack) for entering post markup. (Here’s how to make blog markup easy with AutoHotKey)

Being a developer I’ve also build a few bookmarklets and Greasemonkey scripts that help us generate post types, like roundups, and search the site archives to avoid posting duplicate items.

Much to be learned from Ms. Gina. Now - sally forth and conquer the world, bloggers!

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Posted in Bloggy Interviews on April 23rd, 2007

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