WHAT IS WORDPRESS?

If you did purchase Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett's book "Problogger" and have been reading some of the material you will have discovered that they favour Wordpress as a blogging platform rather than Blogger.

In my view Blogger is the easier to use, but it does have some shortcomings that Problogger goes into in Chapter 3. I recommend that you read through this material carefully.

On page 49 their is a very useful chart of the results that ProBlogger.net had obtained from a survey on what blogging platforms that bloggers are using. By far the most popular is Wordpress followed by Blogger.

The ProBlogger book presents arguments on "Hosted versus Self Hosted". Eventually, even though you may start with a hosted blog service, you will come down to following the trend shown in their user chart because self hosted blogging service. This is gone into in some detail on page 53 of Problogger.

UPDATE 22 - STARTING A BLOG TO EARN RETIREMENT INCOME

If you have not checked out our trial blog http://myfishingsecretsblog.com I suggest that you do so as it has evolved with the inclusion of a photo of a fish and the dropping of some of the contextual advertising which wasn't working well.

You will notice that I have inserted some images and text directly into the posting which is fairly simple once have have located the code which you wish to insert. In this case it was inserted from Commission Junction where I had become a member and chose affiliate programs related to fishing. The photgraph of the fish being released was purchased and inserted through the Layout tab above whereas the link image was through the Edit Html button above right.


There were some costs today and our running record shows:

Income Nil
Expenses $128
Result $128 Debit

Regards

Jack


© 2008 Copyright Jack Taggerty http://mybabyboomerblog.com/

DO YOUR KIDS HAVE AN UP TO DATE WILL?

You might not think it is your concern whether your kids have an up to date will, but often nowdays with blended families there are yours, mine and our children from your married children's perspective. However, just suppose there was a car accident or similar tragedy and your child and his partner were killed and they hadn't updated their wills or worse didn't have a will.

In many countries there is no uniform national law on intestacy and guardianship and it varies from state to state. It is important that understand the law that applies to your children and their kids, but I will leave it up to you as to how to tactfully remind your children what applies in your state e.g. I heard about this accident on television and the commentator said etc...


Regards

Jack


© 2008 Copyright Jack Taggerty http://mybabyboomerblog.com/

LOOKING AFTER YOUR OWN FINANCES

I am a great believer in looking after your own finances and trying to generate your own income rather than being an employee. I have arrived at this view over a number of years. At the heart of this view is a belief in innovation and entrepreneurship.

For the baby boomer generation this is going to be a great challenge because many of our children who have recently purchased a home may well find that their home has dropped significantly in value below their home loan. If they wish to move for employment reasons it is to their parents that they will turn to for assistance. Society has to be ready for this challenge and to provide the products that will allow this to happen.

UPDATE 21 - STARTING A BLOG TO EARN RETIREMENT INCOME

Within 12 months you can expect senior citizens organisations across the world calling for a closer examination of how the retirement of their members is going to be funded. This will be a natural consequence of the global financial meltdown. It is foolish to try to block this from happening. The internet will in all probability be the main communication channel for this call. Senior citizens organizations will encourage members to generate some retirement income for themselves rather than be dependent on their savings or government pensions.

If your money runs out late in life how will you pay your bills? This is one of the most important issues to address in your lifetime. If you are baby boomer that has just retired or considering retirement you need to have a strategy for dealing with this issue. If you have a retirement financial plan prepared by a professional go back and read it again. What does it say about your life expectancy and how long your money will last? If it does not address this issue you should go back and talk to him about it. I intend to comment on this issue further over coming posts because I know that is of concern to a lot of people, myself and my wife included.

There were no costs today and our running record continues to show:

Income Nil
Expenses $104
Result $104 Debit

Regards

Jack


© 2008 Copyright Jack Taggerty http://mybabyboomerblog.com/

UPDATE 20 - STARTING A BLOG TO EARN RETIREMENT INCOME

In my last post I asked you how your allocated pension was going? If you have a financial planner you can always ring him up and ask him or wait until your next review. If you don't have a financial planner it is important that you do find one and preferably a Certified Financial Planner. However, I know that most financial service companies' websites throughout the world have calculators as essential customer service tools to allow their clients and potential clients to check their retirement income planning. I suggest you check your companies' website in the country in which you reside. Naturally this allows you to plan your income requirements and what strategies you can adopt to make you account last longer.

There were no costs today and our running record continues to show:

Income Nil
Expenses $104
Result $104 Debit

Regards

Jack


© 2008 Copyright Jack Taggerty http://mybabyboomerblog.com/

UPDATE 19 - STARTING A BLOG TO EARN RETIREMENT INCOME

I have been blogging for about three months and along the way the credit crisis has developed into a financial meltdown and will significantly adversely impact many people. I have refrained from checking my own allocated pension which is linked to the stock market. However, I know from the news reports that many allocated pension that have a balanced fund risk profile (moderate exposure to market linked investments) have declined in capital value by about ten percent in the past twelve months. This means, of course, that for me and other allocated pension owners there will come the realization that drawing the minimum out of the fund will make it last longer. Whether your financial position allows you to do this is the critical issue. To achieve this goal, you can cut back on expenses or you can try to earn money from a part time job. You can now realize that the business owners of Google have done something strategically important for the baby boomer generation in bringing Blogger to the market and making it accessible to anyone with a modest education and resources.

How is the balance of your allocated pension going?


There were no costs today and our running record continues to show:

Income Nil
Expenses $104
Result $104 Debit

Regards

Jack


© 2008 Copyright Jack Taggerty http://mybabyboomerblog.com/