Widgets
On a blog, lots of valuable information is contained in the sidebar and usually blog software comes with some content already in the sidebar, like links to your categories, archives, and RSS feed. But you can include much more than blog content in your sidebar: you can put widgets onto your blog in this space!
Many blogger use widgets to have a little fun by recommending books they like or letting folks know what music they're listening to. And there are more widgets than you can imagine out there.
In this session I show you some of my favorite widget tools, and walk you through how to put them into some of the common blog software. And before you go crazy, I'll tell you about what the impact of loading all these widgets will have on your blog's performance.
A few of the widgets I'll discuss: photo feeds, blog rolls, books and music, surveys, and instant updates!