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Guest Blogging is Like Helping a Friend Move
Blogging Bear with me on this one. I was helping my good friend move yesterday and in the tedium of moving box after box of their stuff into “the room” made my mind wander. While it was wandering I hit upon guest blogging as akin to helping a friend move. Let me illustrate. It is not your house No matter what you think of the house, remember that it is not your house. You do not have to live there but you do have to be a good guest. So, as ...
Continue readingHustle like ‘Shanky’
Blogging I’m not a sports guy and I hardly ever go to sporting events. However, I did have the chance to go to a special event with my Dad and Grandfather to see the hometown team play an away game. That was a once in a lifetime trip for me because I had never gone on a trip with just my Dad and Grandfather before. We went a baseball game and what was most entertaining for me wasn’t the action on the field but the hustle in the stands. ...
Continue readingListening to the Voice of the Audience
Blogging I was just reading Patti Stafford’s post on Staying Motivated when you are not seeing results and I had to chuckle to myself because I’ve just recently changed things up big time on my own blog. For seven years I’ve written about myself and my life through my blog. I started doing a photograph a day in 2005 and would post the photo and write something about it or about my family. I began to wonder why I wasn’t getting ...
Continue readingBang! Pow! Blog like a Comic Book!
Blogging I’ve been reading a ton of comic books lately. Okay, scratch that, I’ve been reading a lot of comic books my whole life but now I am reading a ton of them on my iPad (apps like Graphic.ly, Comixology, Marvel and DC). As I read through them I see that there are some great themes that you should be using for your blog posts. And I’m going to attempt to go and break it down for you. Establish Your Story When you pick up a comic ...
Continue readingWhy Hosting Your Photos on WordPress is a Bad Idea.
Blogging, Promote your blog Last Week I wrote a post titled 4 Must Have Photo Plugins for WordPress. It got a pretty good response from people who were excited about what I mentioned. One comment however sparked my mind for today’s post. Here is what the comment said. The problem with some of these plugins is the fact that you are hosting photos off site and giving these other sites the traffic that you should have. From www.bloggingtips.com (share this quote) I ...
Continue readingIs Your Blog A Sharktopus?
Blogging Sharktopus is a new SyFy movie that is helmed by Roger Corman. The movie is about a crazy cross between a shark and an octopus. Not only does it swim through the water, propel itself out of the water or grab on to ships and people in the water but it comes out of the water and onto land wreaking havoc everywhere. From the trailer it looks like this killing machine was genetically created and is radio controlled. Of course the control gets lost ...
Continue readingEmbed Screenshots and Quotes easily with Clp.ly
Blogging, Productivity You come across a blog that you really love, say like this one or BenSpark.com (shameless plug) and you want to grab a screenshot of the blog to post in your own blog post. Or maybe you are reading a blog post and you want to snag a quote. You can certainly do it by hitting print screen and then editing the image in a graphics editor. For quotes you could copy the quote and put it in italics and be done with it. However you could do better. ...
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