There’s a new WordPress plug-in we just began using, and it’s pretty slick, called Tweetmeme.

On the surface, after just a couple of days on several sites, I’m finding that it’s improving user interaction and participation, adding more traffic, and increasing readership on the blogs, besides the obvious addition of new Twitter followers.

SEO For Wordpress Session with Jordan Kasteler - Search & Social, Rick Turoczy - Silicon Florist, and David Wallace - SearchRank. Moderated by Scott Hendison. These blogging pros discuss different tools and plugins that can be used to optimize your blog for Search Engines, but also maintain a social media friendly blogging platform. The Q& A section discusses the scalability of WordPress for a web site’s blog.

Todd Mintz posted a YouTube video a couple of days ago and complained of “embedding issues” so I thought I’d do the same, testing for myself. Todd’s right… Although it showed in Firefox, it wouldn’t work in IE… What a a pain…

Sorry Todd, but here’s the fix - Before embedding the Youtube code in a Wordpress post, go to Users - your profile - and UNcheck the box for “use the visual editor when writing”. It’s stupid, but that all it takes to fix the issue. Sorry - blame Microsoft I guess…