Monthly Archives: May 2009
Confusing Words and Homonyms: Part 3 “H, I, K, and L”
Blogging This is the next installment of commonly mixed up words. The previous two articles on homonyms and confusing words can be found here if you missed any important tricky words: Part 1 and Part 2. Hair: what grows on your head and body. “You have hair coming out of your nose.” Hare: a rabbit. “Let’s have a hare for dinner.” Hall: passageway or large room. “Down the hall to your left.” Haul: to pull or drag. “When you haul the ...
Continue readingWriting The Subject Line That Captures Readers
Promote your blog Today’s inbox is generally cluttered with many different offers and sales pitches and so it seems strange that more people who are trying to market their blogs through an email marketing campaign or another method don’t take the time to write a great subject line. These are the times when it’s more necessary than ever to ensure that you’ve got a great subject line to help promote your blog but that essential part of any ...
Continue readingWays to Keep Your Focus
Blogging Writing is an activity that requires some form of focus. This holds true for blogging as well. We want to keep our focus to make that post the best it can be. Once we get into that “groove”, we want to stay there. For most, this can is easier said then done. Here are some ways to keep that focus on that next great post: Phones – How many times has the phone rang at an inopportune time? You are having dinner, taking care of your ...
Continue readingBlogging For A Cause
Blogging One of the things I’ve always liked about the blogging community is how quickly they’re willing to step up and help in times of need. Whether it’s organizing disaster relief, calling for the release of political prisoners, or fact-checking election debates, bloggers always seem eager to get involved. For the month of May, there’s a new way we can support the causes we believe in. Zemanta and Social Innovation Greenhouse @ ...
Continue reading5 Reasons I Dislike Twitter
Social Media As a writer, I guess I should have seen it coming. In recent years, we’ve all been learning how to do a new version of The Limbo Rock as we try to fit our written communication into the latest portable gadgets. This led to the popularity of cell phone text messaging, which led to the creation of Twitter, who has now formally lowered the writing limbo stick to a mere 140 characters. Many people think this a wonderful new idea and appear to be ...
Continue readingPublish and Track Videos While Saving Time With TubeMogul
Social Media, Video Blogging TubeMogul is a very powerful online tool for video publishing; it’s basically like Ping.fm except for videos, with an added bonus of in-depth analytics. With TubeMogul, you upload a video and send it to multiple sites at one time. A list of support video sites can be found here. It also allows publishers, both large and small, to gain a better understanding of how well their videos are being received by their viewers via charts and graphs. ...
Continue reading5 Reasons They May Stop Following on Twitter
Social Media, Social Networking Last week I wrote a post entitled “5 Reasons They May Not Follow on Twitter” that sparked a great conversation both on this site and on Twitter. Today we’re going to take a look at the reasons many people unfollow you after you’ve gotten on their list. Though there are many reasons you can’t avoid, such as accounts being closed, people cutting back on their followers or just a general lack of interest, there are at ...
Continue readingWidgetise Your Theme
WordPress Coding & Design If you want to use widgets in your WordPress theme, or you’re a theme developer and want to make your theme ‘widget ready’, then all it takes is a couple of steps to add the necessary code in and your theme is good to go. The Function First we need to register the sidebar in our functions.php file (if you don’t have a functions.php file, create one). At the simplest form this is [sourcecode language="php"]if ( ...
Continue readingSubject and Verb Agreement: Interrupting Words
Writing Recently we discussed that subjects and verbs must agree or else they don’t play very nicely together. Please refer to “Subjects and Verbs Must be in Agreement or They Don’t Play Fair”. In keeping them playing nicely and working together its sometimes difficult to know how to apply the rules. You must know about present and past tense, singular and plural forms of nouns, verbs, pronouns and helping verbs. And if these rules ...
Continue readingStop Reading, Start Doing
Blogging I was planning on writing a few articles in advance last night but I was a little tired so instead, I decided to just lie in bed and read some blogging related articles (I call that being semi-productive!). After reading a dozen or so articles I noticed that many of the people leaving comments on one blog were the same people leaving comments on the others. Which isn’t particularly peculiar except for one thing : they all ran blogs which ...
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