Monthly Archives: August 2009
500 years of Newspapers – How many years of blogs?
Blogging News While the blogging “industry” is still in it’s infancy, I wonder if the blogosphere will have the lifespan of a giant tortoise at close to 200 years in captivity or the less than a decade lifespan of the Betamax videocassette. Will blogs continue to evolve or will they one day follow the newspapers into the world of cold and harsh oblivion>? Let’s briefly consider the life spans of the newspaper and the blog to begin ...
Continue readingHow to Take a Blogging Vacation
Blogging It’s getting toward the end of summer (at least in the northern hemisphere) and many people are either just coming back from their vacation or are looking to take one before the weather starts to cool off. However, time away from work also means time away from blogging, at least ideally, and that can mean an idle blog for a few days, a few weeks or even longer. Once we get into a blogging routine, it’s hard for most to break it. But ...
Continue readingBalancing Mobile Blogging and The Real World
Blogging If you’re using current news as inspiration for your blogging topics, then you’ll want to stay abreast of news while on the go. Using a smart phone is the best way to stay connected, but there are a number of other services that can be utilized with basic mobile web browsers and SMS. Whether you want to use a mobile feed reader in order to keep up with the news, or a mobile blog plugin so you can update an article, you’re ...
Continue readingRespect Your Readers
Writing In the writing world we often speak of targeting your audience and writing for the reader. Another facet to get readers returning to your site to read your material is to respect them. E.B. White said, “No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.” You never want to talk down to your readers. Readers visit sites for entertainment and knowledge. If they are there to ...
Continue readingAdjectives and Adverbs to the Rescue!
Writing Blogs are all about telling stores: true stories, informative stories, fiction stories,and even rants and raves. When you blog about your topic, you want people to be interested in what you say. You want people to keep coming back for more and actually enjoy your site. You are a story teller and one way to make your posts interesting is to use adjectives and adverbs. Adjectives are words that describe nouns and pronouns. They modify nouns so ...
Continue readingGrabbing Readers Means Writing Well
Blogging It’s not enough to know about seo and how links work if you want sustained traffic. It was never just about placing those keywords at just the right density if you were really interested in getting people to bookmark your site. And even just using all the latest technology like website video marketing and social media won’t get people to hang around unless you know how to write and what people want from the reading they do on the Internet. ...
Continue readingHere a tip, there a tip, everywhere a tip tip…
Blogging Okay, a cheesy headline, I grant you. But you’re curious. That makes going cheesy a tip, of sorts. Actually, I’m writing this blog at the behest, and approval, of Bloggingtips.com Head Cheese (though not remotely cheesy) Kevin Muldoon, who is nothing if not a guy who takes good care of his bloggers. He knows I have a new ebook just out, and he’s offered me the use of the site to post this entry to help get the word out. ...
Continue readingWhich CMS do you use?
Blogging I build websites on a daily basis and I am always trying out new software and tools to keep myself and my work on top of the game. At the time of writing this, more from a usability point of view I choose to use WordPress as my favored platform to build upon. WordPress is considered a Blogging platform but with the amount of plugins and the flexibility WordPress gives you, it can easily be used to create websites. Why WordPress? When I am ...
Continue reading8 Sites For Tracking Twitter Trends and Popular Topics
Social Media Are you ones of those people who loves to keep up with the trends on Twitter? I’m not, but everyday I hear at least 10 people mentioning “Twitter trends” in one of their tweets, so I know it’s important to many Twitter users. Well, if you’re one that likes to stay “in the know” on Twitter, here are some useful sites for doing so. Breaking Tweets Here you can see the latest world news Twitter style. You ...
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