Five years, 517 blog posts. That’s nothing compared to the outpourings of prolific writers who crank out posts daily or even multiple times a day. But as someone who had a hard time keeping a regular journal, as noted last year at this time, I marvel at having kept posting at least once a week [...]
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What are you waiting for? Get blogging!
Pay no attention to the periodic claims that blogging is on its deathbed or that Twitter has taken over. As blogger, podcaster and storyteller Donna Papacosta said last night in a talk to IABC/Toronto, blogging is an excellent way to get known and get remembered. (See Donna’s slides here.) Blogs used to be considered just [...]
Sue’s online life tanks
When I launched the Red Jacket Diaries, I worried that my track record of (not) keeping up a journal would be an indicator of my abilities to keep up a blog. For a while, though, I had a rhythm going, where I paid attention to the world and made a mental or written note about [...]
Who’s into blogging?
You’ll typically hear death notices for blogging (“blogging is dead”) every year or two, but it’s interesting that — like much that’s related to technology — the means of sharing thoughts online just keeps morphing into something new. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, roughly one in 10 adults is keeping up [...]
Happy 4th anniversary!
Four years and 455 blog posts — I suppose for more prolific bloggers, that’s nothing. But for someone who had a hard time updating a journal more than once every couple of months, it’s a pretty significant achievement. So happy anniversary to me and to the Red Jacket Diaries! Happy anniversary as well to strategic [...]
Blogs still going strong
Hobbyists, or people who express their personal musings online as a hobby, make up the “backbone” (64%) of the blogging world, according to Technorati’s 2010 State of the blogosphere, which covered 7,200 bloggers. Self-employeds, like me, make up the next largest group, at 21%. Reflecting our professional nature, we’re most likely to blog about business, [...]
Lurkers, come out of hiding!
I had been mulling over writing here about the times I was surprised, pleased and even floored to discover someone had (secretly) been reading this blog, and I had no idea because they never commented. Just last week, a new IABC contact mentioned that something I had said “inspired” her, to which I could only [...]
Pick four for life balance
After spending three weeks in academia, with no time to read newspapers or watch the news, let alone be active on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and such, it’s been interesting getting (slowly) back into the swing of things. Today, in between researching topics on peer-reviewed journals for a paper I have to write, I caught up [...]
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A peek under the blog hood
Toronto-area independents, join the Halton-Peel Communications Association next week for a peek under the blog hood! HPCA’s social media expert Rob Clark will discuss web analytics, and his colleague Kyle McKeown will talk about inbound marketing and search engine optimization. A couple of HPCA guinea pigs (including me) have offered their web sites for closer [...]
Have you lost your blogging mojo, too?
While countries around the world worry about swine flu (sorry, H1N1), I’m here to tell you there is another insidious virus sweeping at least the blogging world. Yes, some online Dr. Evil is secretly going around stealing our mojo. You know you’ve noticed it. Some bloggers you follow simply don’t post as often. Others have [...]
