Archive for the 'Blogging' Category
Bringing Characters to Life with Blogs!
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006I watch most Monk episodes (thanks to TiVo) and happened to see an ad for their character blogs. What a great concept! The Monk blogs offer a new medium for viewers to continue their connection with the characters.
The blogs of Captain Stottlemeyer, Dr. Kroger, and Natalie Teeger each “sound” very unique. […]
Being a Good Host to Your Blog Readers
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006Liz Strauss has posted a great piece, “10 Reasons Readers Don’t Leave Comments,” at successful-blog.com. It’s a worthwhile read for all bloggers! The article leads us in considering the perspective of our readers, and that’s information that’s more valuable for blog improvement than any batch of blog stats.
I think we all need […]
The Blogging Elves Didn’t Visit!
Sunday, August 6th, 2006When I returned to my blog after being sick for a while, I was amusingly disappointed to find that nothing had changed since I left. Indeed, my blog looked shamefully stale.
I don’t know what I was hoping for exactly. I suppose I had envisioned a real-life, 21st Century, Brothers Grimm fairy tale — […]
Are Blog Posts Considered “Previously Published” Writing?
Monday, July 24th, 2006If you’ve written a great short story and have a blog, you might be tempted to post it and share your words immediately with your readers. You can always enter it into a short story contest later, right? Or get a collection published? Well maybe, but maybe not. If it’s appeared […]
“A Blogger? What’s that?”
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006It’s hard to get excited about a title for yourself, when a lot of people don’t really know what it means. Today I read an excellent article by Liz Strauss at Successful Blog, “What to Do Before They Ask What Do You Do,” that crystallized my concerns.
Just last night, I was feeling like the […]
Ah, Google…You Just Don’t Know Me Anymore
Saturday, July 15th, 2006In the beginning, Google’s AdSense seemed to know me well. I’m a writer, a speaker, an educator, and now a blogger, and my ads reflected all of that.
But things have changed. I wrote humorously about needing a TF hat (I’m using the acronym of TF to try to throw the Google crawlers off the […]
Technical Difficulties Resolved
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006Hello there! I’m happy to be able to greet you again!
If you checked my RSS feed or visited my blog earlier today, you might have noticed that some of my posts and comments had vanished — Gasp!
I’m happy to report now that the technical difficulties have been resolved. And I’m breathing again.
Happy […]
Who’s doing the dumping?
Monday, July 10th, 2006My husband’s friend and co-worker, Anton, wrote an excellent tongue-in-cheek article about his experience with Verizon. That ISP recently dropped him for using too much bandwidth. Hearing that is enough to make any blogger grumble, but Anton flips the story to put power back in the hands of subscribers. A great read!
By […]
I’m Officially an SOB!
Saturday, July 8th, 2006Today I was awarded a badge of achievement by Liz Strauss at her Successful Blog site! Now I am officially an SOB! You can see the badge on the left side of my blog pages.
Basically, the badge is a recognition of bloggers who bring the conversation to their readers, along with […]
For Bloglings (and Everybody Else)
Saturday, July 8th, 2006When you’re new to blogging, just starting to peep, you wonder if anyone’s listening out there and if they ever will. That’s how I used to feel, and now, over the past couple of weeks, I’ve started to see your comments coming in. Thank you so much for that!
Today I found an excellent […]