Posted in blogging on 13. Nov, 2009
I’ve spent years reading, studying, and writing blogs to fit formulas in search of the golden ticket. And I’ve recently had my cathartic moment of truth when I realized my bloglife had to change.
Posted in Featured, Jenni Hammit, blogging on 26. Aug, 2009
Sometimes it feels like finding freelance writing gigs is a full time job on its own. I have these grand dreams of having enough gigs to make this writing my full time occupation. I know it will be a long road. I know I will have to keep applying and making a name for myself. I know I can’t give up or “take a break” or it will just take longer. There are weeks where I spend more time on the search than I do actually working on content.
Posted in blogging on 25. Jul, 2008
While random people arriving here after a Google search don’t know me from Adam, I have a few friends and family members who note that they stopped reading CultureFeast.com because I no longer contribute on any regular basis. They don’t really care if what I write is relevant, so long as I write. As sweet as that is, I still don’t want to write.
It’s not that I don’t have anything to say. Trust me, that won’t happen anytime soon. Rather, it’s more a combination of freakishly busy and paranoid that keeps me from weekly blogging. Busy is not something I can change. But there are way around paranoid… namely, the super secret blog or two.
Posted in blogging on 24. Jul, 2008
If you were to have told me, about a year ago, that I would be using social media on a regular basis, I would have thought you were insane. To me, social media was nothing more than Facebook and MySpace, nothing more, nothing less. I thought that blogging was just for nerds and people with just too much time on their hands. However, after one of my PR courses (Strategies and Issues), I found myself slowly getting used to using, and understanding exactly what social media and blogging were. The course was very social media heavy; understanding the use of blogs and social media sites, how to effectively use social media today, and about half way through the course, each student had to create his and her own blog.
At first, I could not be bothered, and my friend Dara and I would just roll our eyes with sheer boredom. As she became less and less interested in the class, I became more fixated on blogging and the Internet. I was one of the very few students who updated their blogs more than once a week because I was genuinely interested in what I was writing about (Public Relations and Popular Culture).
Posted in blogging on 30. Mar, 2008
Today's panel is led by John Pozadzides. Panel members include Matt Mullenweg, Liz Strauss, Aaron Brazell, and Mark Ghosh.
Note: the following are summarizations, not direct and/or complete quotes.
Why do you need a blog?
Aaron: Transparency is key in today's business world.
Matt Mullenweg asks the room, "how many of you read blogs?" Everyone raises their hand. "How many of you read press releases?" Six. Point made. (more…)
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Chris Smith specializes in local optimization. He contributes to SearchEngineLand.com and WebProNews.com.
Optimizing Your Blog
Beef up your internal hierarchical linking structure (more…)
Posted in blogging on 30. Mar, 2008
Aaron Brazell from B5 Media and Technosailor.com:
Categories and Tags can coexist. Aaron exclusively uses tags to help new visitors find valuable older content.
Can you have too many tags? Many tags are more easily picked up by Technorati. It's easier to explore related content with more tags. It's easier to find various formats (podcasts, video, photos, text) with tags. You can't have too many tags.
What is GPL and why is it important to WordPress? (more…)
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