by Sue Horner | Oct 1, 2012 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
When IABC/Toronto asked to interview me the other day for a newsletter article about blogging, my first thought was that it was because I don’t do a very good job of it. To my surprise, that wasn’t the case, so I shared some thoughts about blogging and how...
by Sue Horner | May 14, 2012 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
I seem to have misplaced my blogging mojo again. It started slipping away during a busy few weeks leading up to a week’s vacation. Then, between my writing business, and school, and networking/volunteer activities, and family, the blogging momentum just slipped...
by Sue Horner | Jan 24, 2012 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
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...
by Sue Horner | Sep 28, 2011 | Most popular posts, The Red Jacket Diaries blog
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 in a talk to IABC/Toronto, blogging is an excellent way to get known and get remembered. Blogs used to...
by Sue Horner | May 29, 2011 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
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...
by Sue Horner | Feb 26, 2011 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
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...
by Sue Horner | Jan 24, 2011 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
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...
by Sue Horner | Nov 16, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
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...
by Sue Horner | Oct 19, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
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...
by Sue Horner | Aug 26, 2010 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
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...
