Have you noticed lately that the bloggers you follow are posting a little less frequently? For me, there’s a direct correlation between deadlines looming and a slowdown in both reading and posting to blogs. I’m disciplined about working when I have to be, and time online is the first to go when I have a [...]
Tag Archives: Blogging
Everyone’s trying to be Twitter
Everyone is trying to be like the shiny new toy, Twitter. My Internet service provider, Bell Mail, has launched their new “enhanced” mail service, and it wants me to invite people to join my network and update them on what I’m doing. LinkedIn and Facebook want me to invite people to join my network and [...]
Watch out for these scams
Akismet has stopped more than 36,000 spam comments from being posted on my site over the two years I’ve been blogging, a milestone reached yesterday. (Happy anniversary to me!) I scan through the “holding pen” every once in a while, and usually the spam is obvious. But recently one of the stopped messages took a [...]
I’m learning
Digital natives won’t be impressed, but it was big news for me when I launched my web site, started a blog, got settled on Facebook and LinkedIn and even downloaded a ringtone (I’m not a big cellphone user). So believe me when I say there is LOTS for me to learn. I had wondered before [...]
Message in a bottle
Hello, all you lurkers! Over the past couple of weeks, I was pleasantly surprised to find out about several people who are following my blog. Even if you aren’t necessarily saying anything, it’s nice to know you’re out there. When my friend Gloria launched her Escarpment Views blog, she said, “Publishing a magazine is a [...]
Blogging not dead yet
Mitch Joel says there’s never been a better time to start your own blog. Technorati says in its State of the Blogosphere/2008 report that “blogging is not dead” and “blogs are here to stay.” The report also notes that bloggers have been at it a average of three years and are collectively creating close to [...]
Sharing the love
A colleague in one of my networking groups, Rob Clark of The Elusive Fish, once likened social media to being at a party. He suggested that just as we would at a party, we need to get out and talk to people. Jean Gogolin (in her WordTales blog, found through links from other bloggers), suggests [...]
3 flies walk into a bar
What a great exercise in telling a story and setting a mood, in a tight framework too! I’m talking about the Copyblogger‘s Twitter Writing Contest. The goal: Write a story in exactly 140 characters (the length of a post on Twitter, aka a tweet). Not more, not less; exactly. The contest is over now, after [...]
Keyword analysis inspires writing sample tips
If you are a blogger, consider yourself patted on the back by Anne Holland, Content Director of MarketingSherpa. She encourages bloggers in the May 12 newsletter (see #9) thusly: “Starting a blog is easy. Keeping the blog going for more than a few months is hard. If you are one of the relatively few, the [...]
When your words inspire
After “Bitter Waitress” posted a comment on my rant about a restaurant not taking reservations, I asked her how she found her way to my blog. Her reply indicates, as if you didn’t already know this, that you just never know who is going to find you and why. My commenter (who confesses she’s not [...]
