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Are Blog Carnivals Worth the Trouble?
What’s a blog carnival anyway? I read about them in a chapter of Patrick Schwerdtfeger’s book Webify Your Business and so I signed up for one. But it didn’t seem like there was much going on, so I posted the question on LinkedIn:
Who’s had experience with Blog Carnivals?
The Best …
Five Lessons We Bloggers Can Learn From Soap Operas
I remember way back when soap opera fans were not held in high esteem by me . . . until I had two babies in diapers and appreciated the company of the characters and their many problems.
Many years later I learned that some well-respected literary types wrote a book about …
WordPress is Fast Becoming WORLD-Press for Websites & Blogs
WordPress is The Bomb!
You read a lot about WordPress on this WordPress blog and you’ll be reading lots more. I’m convinced that WP is the easiest and best way for most of us to do our online publishing, and so does freelance website designer Todd E. Jones. A blogger and …
Why Your Website Really Needs a Blog
“Blogs provide a dimension to content that you can’t get from your website.”
. . . and that is only one of the insights in a great article I found online in a blog post by Michael Cohn, the Chief Technology Officer of CompuKol Communications. He has over 25 years of …
Teaching with Blogs and Twitter — When “Student Help” Means the Students Are Helping: What are you likely to learn?
My English students are practicing their writing skills on personal blogs for class assignments. A few of the students still “didn’t get it,” i.e. what was this blogging stuff all about?
So I asked them all to write a paragraph with this topic sentence:
“Blogs are a great way for people to …
Will a FREE WordPress Theme Work for Your Blog?
When my WordPress Meetup group discussed the new features of WordPress 3.0, I was gungho to get started. Not only did I download the upgrade, but I also decided to test out a new theme.
Good thing I “tested” it on a training blog . . . because OOOPS my new …
WordPress 3.0 Features “Featured” at Meetup
Meetups are popular social gatherings usually organized around a particular business topic or hobby or other special interest. There’s a meetup.com site where you can learn if there are any events in your area. [Eight ways to maximize your meetup experience.]
As a WordPress Blogger and student of technology, …
How To Do Social Media By The Book
One year ago today, I wrote my first blog post: Follow me along Social Media Revolutionary Road . . . and what a ride it’s been — life altering, for certain.
The lessons keep on coming, especially on how to do this blogging gig. While there is NO one right way …
Social Media Helps Students & Teachers Learn from One Another
One of my greatest teachers these days is my newest student Gregory Stringer, a 56-year-old disabled retiree who has returned to school for retraining, and that includes a heavy dose of Social Media Networking — which is how we met not long ago.
In the LinkedIn group, FUTURE SOCIAL MEDIA, Endaf …
What’s the ROI on Blog Comments, Anyway?
‘If a tree falls in the woods, and no one hears, is there a sound?”
How can I get more comments on my blog?
Wow, what a great question — especially for a couple of million people now writing blog articles!
It’s an even better question for all the bloggers who’ve been writing …
Should You Set Up Your Own Blog?
My most recent blogging workshop gathered together a dozen participants with a wide range of experience and understanding of social media — from some attendees who weren’t quite sure what a blog was to a few people with active, sophisticated websites.
What they all shared, however, was the question about whether …
Just Starting Your Blog? — Meet Lyndit, Who Just Didit
Lyndi Thompson is an M&M peanut-aholic and treehugger-wannabe, but she has also taken her nerdy HTML and CSS skills into the Blogosphere with her new blog lyndit.com.
I met Lyndit in Twitterville after she happened upon my article on 10 Mistakes Made by Social Media Newbies. Apparently Lyndit didn’t want to …
Becoming involved in the Social Media community is the most exciting life change in memory.
Discovering how each and every one of us has an opportunity to MAKE A NAME FOR OURSELVES and share our knowledge and insights with interested readers is tremendously empowering.
As I write this blog, read comments here, and do the same with the blogs of others -- I know that we all can benefit in a host of ways. Let's DO IT!
HOW TO DO SOCIAL MEDIA BY THE BOOK
