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Rather than placing external links throughout a blog which give your reader the opportunity to become sidetracked, Trailfire allows you to instead place an external link which you can control. You can extend your blog to other web pages while still maintaining your narrative. This control is not only helps maintain readership, but also increases your reader's understanding.

Put your comments directly on the pages that you link to. Don't just put a link sending your readers off your site, put a link that sends them to a page where you've already added your own comments.

Rather than placing external links throughout a blog which give your reader the opportunity to become sidetracked, Trailfire allows you to instead place an external link which you can control. You can extend your blog to other web pages while still maintaining your narrative. This control is not only helps maintain readership, but also increases your reader's understanding.

Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow and Small is the New Big:

Bullets Are For the NRA
Here are the five rules you need to remember to create amazing Powerpoint presentations:

1. No more than six words on a slide. EVER. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
2. No cheesy images. Use professional stock photo images.
3. No dissolves, spins or other transitions.
4. Sound effects can be used a few times per presentation, but never use the sound effects that are built in to the program. Instead, rip sounds and music from CDs and leverage the Proustian effect this can have. If people start bouncing up and down to the Grateful Dead, you’ve kept them from falling asleep, and you’ve reminded them that this isn’t a typical meeting you’re running.
5. Don’t hand out print-outs of your slides. They don’t work without you there.

Post you comments directly on the page you link to. Instead of just linking off your blog, link to an article with your comments posted directly on top of it.