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One of the things I want to start doing here on FansiteBlogger.com is to share the awesome plugins that I find useful on the various fansites that I run. In doing so I believe it will help you as a fansite owner or community manager to improve your fansites. Today I’d like to point you [...]

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I’ve been considering a premium video sharing solution for my video files. Currently I use Youtube to host my videos but I’m looking for greater control, particularly in terms of video statistics.

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I’ve been interested in using Disqus comment system on my blogs for a while now. I’ve tried it out on a few different occasions (twice on FlashForwardblog, where it’s currently installed), but I’ve never been completely satisfied – especially since the native WordPress comments does a good enough job. But is good enough, good enough?

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Can Apture Capture Reader Engagement?

by admin on November 30, 2009

I’m always looking for ways to add more interactivity to my blogs – useful methods of engaging readers and making content more relevant. While there are tons of products that promise to enhance content, very few deliver. Most just add clutter and detract from the focus of a blog or fansite. However I recently stumbled [...]

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WordPress Worm Attack – Upgrade Now!

by admin on September 5, 2009

Earlier today I was shocked to discover that all of the links on my Dollhouse fansite – WatchingDollhouse.com were broken. After doing a bit of digging I soon found out that my entire permalink structure had been reset to the default setting, resulting in none of my post links working. I quickly went about re-applying [...]

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To Disqus or not to Disqus?

by admin on September 1, 2009

I’m currently deliberating whether or not to move all of my WordPress blog comments over to a third-party comment system called Disqus. I have to admit, I was totally against such a thing a few months ago – I couldn’t understand why sites like Mashable, and many others, would choose Disqus over the perfectly functional [...]

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Fansite Platforms – Blogs

by admin on July 7, 2009

Blogs

In my experience blogs are effective and user-friendly platforms for creating and managing fansite content. Over the years blogs have incorporated many of the features that make other platforms successful – from social media integration tools, to threaded comments, to content management features – blogs can be argued to be the meta-platform for almost limitless [...]

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