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The PollDaddy Polls plugin allows you to create and manage polls from within your WordPress dashboard. You can create polls, choose from 20 different styles for your polls and view all results for your polls as they come in. All PollDaddy polls are fully customizable, you can set a close date for your poll, create multiple choice polls, choose whether to display the results or keep them private. You can even embed the polls you create on other websites. You can collect unlimited votes and create unlimited polls.

This short video talks you through the process of putting a poll together and checking up on the results. Although this video is for free wordpress.com blog but it can be used in self hosted blogs as well by downloading the PollDaddy Plugin.

WordPress makes it very If you’d like to save your work and come back to it another time, without putting it out for the world to see, WordPress gives you various draft options. This would work well for both WordPress.com and WordPress Self Hosted blogs. This video talks you through the process.

If you’d like to blog with friends, colleagues or family, you can invite other people to join you in creating your blog content. This short tutorial shows you how to add or remove people, and explains the differences between user permission levels such as Administrator / Editor / Contributor.

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums.

This short introductory video introduces the concept behind and quick-start setup of Gravatar – a free service designed to make your life easier, by associating a free-floating avatar with one or more of your email addresses.

Every blog by default has some blogroll / links in the sidebar. This comes in handy when you want to link out to your friends / family blog’s or reciprocate a link back to another blog. If you’re list of links isn’t showing in the sidebar of your blog, this video will show how you can make it visible.