Most of us get a large percentage of our blogging material from work. Maybe you work with hilarious (intentionally or otherwise) colleagues, or you work in a particularly interesting industry – or one so boring that you have plenty of time to write about it. Regardless, we spend a huge chunk of our time at work, so naturally it gets reflected in our personal blogs.

A lot of companies are starting to develop policies on employees who blog about the company. The best way to find out your company’s policy…

Why in the world would anyone want to write content and give it to someone else to use on their blog? I mean our content is the life blood of our blogs, right? Well keep reading and I will share with you several reasons why you might want to write guest posts for other blogs.

Exposure for your blog - Maybe you just started your blog and your looking to get word out about it. Guest blogging is a great way to tell a larger established group of readers as your post…

In blogging, you need to a little about a lot. Take images in your blog posts, for example: there’s definitely a learning curve. Novice bloggers often don’t take into account how little they know about digital images.

Image File Types

There are three main image file types: GIFs, JPEGs, and PNGs.

GIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format. Its file extension is .gif. It’s pronounced like a word, with either a hard or soft “G”. GIFs can only hold 256 colors, which makes them lousy for detailed photos but excellent for logos and line…

Note: This post is a two-parter, the second half: Five Ways to Hit Your Reader in the Head, can be found at my blog. This is the first part of the article and will focus on affecting readers emotionally with your posts.

Writers make a thousand little decisions regarding each piece we write. Whether it is a song, an op-ed piece or a blog post, there are endless paths we could take to state our case or share a story. Many of these choices are made without conscious though, often to…

I started blogging almost three years ago (February 2005). As a long-time freelancer, I receive a lot of questions from freelances who are just starting out, subscribers to my newsletter, freelancers who knew me when I had my editorial staffing agency in New York, etc.

Blogging made it easy to share information en masse and get immediate feedback. I recall those days fondly because I wrote with a pure sense of, “This is good to share.” Nothing more, nothing less.

So, why am I telling you all this? Well, it’s gotten…