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 [...]
Tag Archives: Blogging
Keep it closed!
Does anyone else find this a somewhat odd thing to say – “A successful blog kind of opens the kimono and from a brand point of view lets people know who you are.” This is a quote from Rob Frankel, a Los Angeles-based branding consultant, from an article called Business of blogging: how to make [...]
You knew this: Interruptions lower performance
Those who spend large amounts of time online will totally understand when T.J. Larkin, in his weekly Larkin Pages research summary (sign up), says that we’re the ones responsible for half of our own interruptions. Think of all those blogs you follow, keeping up your own blog, checking email, visiting social networks, checking out what’s [...]
One year on
It seemed an incredible cosmic coincidence that I would start blogging on the very same day as the informative, insightful and strategic Les Potter, but as I found out when Les posted his one-year commentary on Tuesday, it was merely close. Well, two days apart is still pretty cosmic, so congratulations to both of us [...]
One-word description
When the blogs I follow reached 57, I went through the list to see what could be pruned out to make a more manageable group. Oh sure, 57 is nothing – colleague Rob Clark said at one time he was following 390! But following them all seemed to be taking up way too much time, [...]
Eat, drink and be merry
Happy New Year! So here we are in the aftermath of the famous “holiday season.” It feels like the last two weeks have been spent doing nothing but eat, drink and be merry, which is great fun but not too conducive to jumping quickly back into a productive routine! After all the Christmas chaos (dinner [...]
When I have time…
I’m a perfect example of (Bob) Bly’s Theory of Blogging and Personal Productivity in action. He states: “Personal productivity is inversely proportional to the time spent blogging…the more time you spend blogging, the less work you get done.” I’ve done a better job this week of being productive, writing and meeting deadlines than posting interesting [...]
Winding down a busy week
Don’t you find that keeping up with blogs and blogging goes out the window when things are busy? I finally have a few minutes to catch up after a “drop everything and do this NOW” project this week that I just completed. This was something I had to quote on, and when I gave a [...]
Another funny blog for freelancers
Here’s a refreshing and funny blog, written by a freelance writer in Pennsylvania. Kathy Kehrli’s blog is called Screw You!, which is what she says to rude/delinquent/hard-to-reach clients, the IRS and more. Of course, it’s not all ranting and raving; Kathy often has useful comments and advice.
Blogs and newsletters – separated at birth
In the latest issue of Nick Usborne’s bi-weekly Excess Voice e-newsletter (about writing online; subscribe here), he talks about the similarity between e-newsletters and blogs: 1. Good newsletters and blogs seek to engage your attention at a personal level. 2. Good newsletters and blogs both deliver timely information. 3. Good newsletters and blogs expand their [...]
