When working in social, economic, environmental systems, we often assume one action has one result that it will happen relatively soon. But experience has shown us that we are managing tightly interconnected, delayed, complex systems where one action has multiple, often counterintuitive, results.

Twitter is one of the best tools that you can use as a blogger to promote your blog posts. Many blogs (including this one) uses Twitter related widgets and badges where you can display Tweets.

Are you displaying excerpts on your WordPress blog without any excerpt related plugins? Do you want to control the length of the excerpts? This method is great if you do not want to use plugins to control the length of your excerpts.

I have added a new feature on My Chatbox Micro Blogging Community where members can now “social bookmark” their favorite links on their profile or on a Chatbox that they have created. Other members can comment and vote on the bookmarks that they have submitted in a “Digg” like style format.

This is quite a nice trick if you don’t like buttons such as Facebook Like or any Twitter counter buttons on your WordPress website or blog. With this method, you can display your Twitter count as normal text and it can blend in quite nicely if you have custom WordPress theme for your blog or [...]

Gary Vaynerchuck and his book Crush It have inspired thousands.

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Widget Logic is quite a nice plugin that you can use to control where your WordPress widgets appear with WordPress conditional tags. Once you have installed the plugin, all of your widgets will have an extra text field where you can use WordPress conditional tags to control where the widget appears.

Have you seen blogs where thumbnails are displayed next to the blog post content usually found on the home page, search pages, categories and archive pages of the blog? Have a look at Mashable’s home page and this blog’s home page to see this in action. If you have a WordPress theme and you would [...]