blogging
You Are Never Alone as a Blogger
I had a discussion last night with a long-time prominent blogger. During our conversation, we naturally strayed towards writing and community building, topics with which we are both very familiar. This is someone who puts out extremely high-quality content on a daily basis. He is constantly pushing the limits, drawing in new people with his [...]
Punctuation Abuse is on the Rise
It’s a well-known fact that I tend to become a tad upset when people do not obey the rules of PUGS. Blame the English teacher in me. Point the finger at my upbringing. Taunt me if you will, but it drives me completely batshit crazy to see the lack of proper punctuation floating around these [...]
Rick Calvert from Blog World Discusses Blogging
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Rick Calvert, CEO and Co-founder of Blog World and New Media Expo, was on hand at CES 2011 talking about blogging with me in the Reese’s booth. We briefly talk about the history of blogging, discuss the nuances of naming within [...]
How to Write a Blog Post
For everyone out there who has a successful blog, there are twenty others who struggle trying to figure out what to write. Coming up with several interesting topics per day isn’t an easy feat. Even if you are regurgitating news, you still have to put a fresh perspective on things. You need to inject your [...]
Best Free Blogging Platform
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Someone asked recently which free blogging platform is the “best” one to get started with. This question is pretty impossible to answer. There are many decent free blog providers out there. As with anything, you have to research what they offer [...]
Social Media SEO
During my time in Texas at OpenCa.mp this past weekend, I reconnected with an old friend. Lee Odden used to write about Marketing on Lockergnome back in the day, and it’s great to see all of the things he has accomplished since that time. Not only did both of us go skydiving with the Army [...]
New Year’s Resolutions with a Twist
While you’re making your list of resolutions this year, why not add in some of a different nature? If you’ve been “meaning” to have more of a presence on the various social media networks, why not turn that into a resolution? Resolve to send out a particular number of thought-provoking tweets per day. Decide how [...]
What Role Do Blogs Play in Your Life?
Even if you’re not a blogger yourself, chances are you read a few of them. It seems like everyone is blogging these days, including my mom on occasion (so ok, maybe not recently). Heck, even when you aren’t intending to read a blog, you may end up doing so after following a link from a [...]
What does it Take to Drive Traffic to your Videos?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I recently uploaded a one-minute video of my laughing hysterically. In three days’ time, that video has had over 10,000 views on YouTube, and received more than 300 comments. What does it take to generate this kind of traffic? Jeff sent [...]
Are Bloggers Journalists: Are Blogs new Journalism?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Is blogging the new form of Journalism? Should bloggers be held to the same standards as the media? Those questions were asked of me recently in an email, and raise a lot of food for thought. I don’t know that I’d [...]
Is your Blog Usable, or a Jumbled Mess of Information?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed When someone visits your blog, can they find their way around easily? Is everything neatly organized on your site… or is it more of a jumbled mess of information, links and text? Here are some excellent tips to help you get [...]
Are you the only Person who Isn’t Blogging?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Thomas is a 14 year old who recently tried to start a Tech blog to make money via AdSense. He didn’t do so well, but learned a lot along the way. He is passing along his tips for starting and maintaining [...]
How to Start (and KEEP) a Blog
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed It happens to the best of us. We start a blog with every intention of keeping it up, and then things get in the way and we forget it. Maybe you don’t know what to write. Maybe you just don’t have [...]
On BlogHer
No, I didn’t go to BlogHer – for a few good reasons. It has nothing to do with me being a “him,” though. Largely, I stayed at home for Ponzi’s benefit. I didn’t want to take away from her experience at the event, as the BlogHer conference is ultimately about women in blogging – and [...]
Tagging Technorati
In his latest “State of the Blogosphere” report, Technorati founder Dave Sifry finally conceded defeat to spam from BlogSpot and .info domains. His team of developers will be issuing Technorati 3.0 SP1 within a few weeks to address this climate shift. The impending update will transmogrify Technorati.com from a hub of live Web content into [...]
