Social bookmarks are every blogger’s friend. It helps us to build wider readership community through submitting our links to these sites (like Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Mixx, etc.). And we all know that having links to these social bookmarking sites below every post is important. So I made this post to help you find the best and the most creative social bookmark icon sets around the web.

Here’s 10 Creative Social Bookmarks Icon Set for Your Blog:

1. 34 Social Bookmark Buttons – SoulVisual

34 Social Bookmark Buttons – SoulVisual

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Thinking of what to post next on your blog is a hard task. You need to consider many things, and be creative. But writing the post itself is even harder. As a blogger, you need to be good in writing to create a better content for your blog. And if your blog has good content, then it will definitely attract more readers.

Aside from good writing skill, you can also improve your blog posts by some useful tools. Right now, I’ll list the top tools that I use in writing a blog post that you can use, too.

1. Microsoft Word 2007. Microsoft’s Office software is indeed a great tool for bloggers/writers. I found it very useful in writing a blog post because of its grammar-checker tool. Yeah, I’m no good in English but I am eager to be good in English. Microsoft Word’s grammar-checker tool warns you if you have a wrong grammar in a phrase or sentence by putting a green line below it. It even gives you the right structure of the wrong phrase/sentence that you entered.
2. Encarta Dictionaries. Microsoft Encarta is a virtual encyclopedia in your PC. Encarta Dictionaries is included in the pack, and it’s awesome. In writing a blog post, simple words are good, right? But nicer words than simple are better. I use Encarta Dictionaries to find a better synonym of a specific word to make my post more like a professionally written blog post!
3. Google Trends. So you want to write an SEO-related post? Then use Google Trends. Google Trends tells you what web users search for and the most active keywords. SEO contains different complicated stuffs (website optimization, link-building, etc.) which are not easy to learn. So if you want to write a blog post that you want to optimize for search engines, then Google Trends is a nice tool for you.

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Last July, I posted here some juicy links where you can find cool Tumblr layouts. But many suggested that it would be better if I post specific layouts here in my blog. Yeah, that’s a cool idea. Tumblr is a great platform for your on-the-go blogs, and of course, it needs great layout, too.

The web is a huge world. And it is so hard to find tiny pieces of precious Tumblr layouts. But, Tumblr itself made the search for you.

In your Tumblr dashboard, hit the Customize link, and you’ll be redirected to their customization panel where you can tweak and edit your tumblr blog’s settings and the layout or theme.

Themes on Tumblr | Tumblr Layouts

In the bar at the top of the customization panel of Tumblr, you have to click the Theme link to show the Tumblr layouts directory. This Tumblr layouts directory offers free cool layouts for free ( and some of them are made by Tumblr enthusiasts, too). And what I did was I picked five cool Tumblr layouts to help you decide what you want to choose for your Tumblr blog.

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Blogging is fun. Yeah, I just proved it to myself. And they say, that blogging with a self-hosted blog via WordPress.org is funner! But, that’s not fun at all. Why? Because, you have to pay this, and that, and this for your “very own” blog. But why pay, if there’s free? Now, that’s what we call fun!

Blogger has been the major FREE blog platform for many blogs today. Blogger is great indeed. But we shouldn’t stick to Blogger. We need to try something new. Something, funner. And here comes the, Tumblr.

Tumblr is a great free blog platform, especially for on-the-go bloggers. It’s like Twitter because of its simplicity.

And of course, as you enter the world of blogging with Tumblr (or any blogging platforms), you’ll surely enter the world of complicated CSS, Javascript, PHP and so many codes, which is the skeletal system of your blog. Without these, you’re blog is a mess.

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As of now, I am blogging since I was a high school student. And now that I am in college, it means that I had been in blogosphere for years. In blogging, you can do almost anything you want. But these things can be possible with the help of some programs both online and offline. And now, I recommend you these softwares which can help you blog easier.

1. Windows Live Writer Beta

In Blogger, you can write your post for your blog online at their site. But for me, writing your post offline is much better than online. Why? You can do anything in online except of something. You cannot edit your post with more helpful tools. But with Windows Live Writer Beta, blogging is a heaven.

Live Writer has a lot of features. You’re like working on a Microsoft Office program when you use this.

• Adding your blog on Live Writer is so easy. You’ll just follow the steps given by the program and the setup will only take minutes.
• As you finish adding your blog, the Windows Live Writer Beta will automatically detect your blog’s theme.
• You can also add effects to your photos. Just like what I always do with my blog photos.
• YouTube is also available for this great software. You can embed your YouTube video to your blog post. (more…)

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