From the category archives:

web writing

Should you Write for a Blog Network?

January 3, 2010

A blog net­work is a group of peo­ple writ­ing together to cover a set of top­ics all as part of the same larger group.

Some blog net­works are writ­ers with their own unique blogs, only con­nected through the net­work as a way of build­ing a com­mu­nity, such as 9Rules.
Another kind of net­work is more like an […]

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Skipping to a Quick Conclusion

December 27, 2009

Peo­ple sel­dom read old con­tent. So you need to think of each post you write as the only post in your blog. The oth­ers are back­ground to show you’ve been here awhile, more like a cre­den­tial than con­tent. With­out an archive you look like some­one who just started. Yet, those posts could all be about […]

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Do You Have a Favourite Word?

December 4, 2009

Have you heard of Word­nik? It’s an online dic­tio­nary which I read about on Web­Work­er­Daily.I like the look of the site, it’s a clean, fresh design. Bet­ter yet, I tested it with some odd words and it passed, had them all listed. It did not give a per­fectly clear descrip­tion for each but it was […]

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Research Away Writer’s Block

December 1, 2009

From Gary Bencivenga’s Mar­ket­ing Bul­lets:
I learned that good copy­writ­ers get to know so much about the prod­uct and the prospect and his or her wants, fears, assump­tions, and lingo that the copy soon wants to burst forth as if a dam is break­ing. I learned that research is the infal­li­ble cure for writer’s block.
Hav­ing something […]

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The 1,000 Word Challenge

November 24, 2009

You may not be doing so well with NaNoW­riMo, or NaBloPoMo or even IComWe­Leave, but… you can do a thou­sand word post on your blog. It’s a one shot deal. Think of it as 5 groups of 200 words, or 4 groups of 250 words and it doesn’t really seem that bad at all, right?
This is […]

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Blogging with Discipline

November 22, 2009

Blog­ging with dis­ci­pline doesn’t mean you have to blog every day or that you can’t ever take a break. It means blog­ging reg­u­larly–what­ever that means for you. It means sit­ting down and try­ing to develop a blog post idea instead of wait­ing until a perfectly-written post is already float­ing around in your brain.
Blog­ging with […]

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Designing Your Own 125x125 Blog Ad

October 26, 2009

You need to cre­ate a small 125 x 125 pix­els square ad for your blog if you want to use ad net­works and link exchanges like CMF Ads, Adg­i­tize, Project Won­der­ful, Tech­no­rati Engage, Yahoo Pub­lisher Net­work (US only), Google Adsense, Blog Ads, Spottt and 125 Exchange. (Pub­lisher Spot will give you reviews of ad networks […]

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Interview Yourself

October 19, 2009

Inter­view­ing is a nice skill to have. It’s more than just being social, able to keep a con­ver­sa­tion mov­ing. There is quite a bit of prepa­ra­tion involved before the social part even starts.
What ques­tions will you ask dur­ing the inter­view? Think about what you want to know your­self, that’s a good place to start. Then […]

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The Awful Silence of Blogging

October 18, 2009

Many years ago I started a newslet­ter for writ­ers online. I called it InkSplat­ters. It ran on the site that is now Yahoo Groups. (Does any­one remem­ber when it was Yahoo Clubs for awhile and some­thing else not even part of Yahoo before that?) The newslet­ter began as a spin off from a site my […]

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Blogger Talks

October 17, 2009

Blog­ger Talks — Inter­views with blog­gers, since 2006. I think I did see this site before but had for­got­ten all about it. Read the inter­views from the per­spec­tive of a blog­ger and some­one who might be writ­ing their own inter­views some day. What are the best ques­tions asked? How do they frame them well, or […]

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Need Ideas for Writing about Climate Change for Blog Action Day?

October 14, 2009

Do you need ideas for writ­ing about cli­mate change for Blog Action Day tomor­row? (Blog Action Day on Twit­ter).
Every­one isn’t per­fectly polit­i­cally minded or caught up on all the envi­ron­men­tal issues. Also, you may think about the idea of cli­mate change per­son­ally ver­sus glob­ally.
That’s how I intend to write about it. So, here are some […]

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When Your Employer Wants your Twitter Account

October 13, 2009

Maybe I’m just being picky but, I don’t feel my Twit­ter account is open for busi­ness to my employer. The fol­low­ing comes from an ad look­ing for blog writ­ers, part of what they expect in addi­tion to pas­sion and expe­ri­ence (expe­ri­ence wasn’t essen­tial):
Blog­gers who actively engage within their online com­mu­ni­ties and pro­mote the con­tent they […]

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Luv Your Blog Lately?

September 13, 2009

Have you vis­ited Blogs We Luv? I was inter­viewed at Blogs We Luv for my per­sonal blog, back in 2008.
Put together your own answers to the ten ques­tions and send it in for your own inter­view. Here are the ques­tions so you can get think­ing right away:

Describe your blog in five sen­tences or less.
Link us to one post […]

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Use Every Colour, Make Mistakes

September 7, 2009

From Ben Spark’s post: Use Every Color in Your Box of Crayons (treat your­self, read the whole post):
I think that we are so afraid to make mis­takes. We don’t take chances with those addi­tional col­ors in the box of crayons. If I took blog­gers, for exam­ple, I’d say that the peo­ple who are mak­ing the biggest […]

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Have You Disabled Comments?

September 3, 2009

This topic (choos­ing to dis­able com­ments on your blog) came up on CMF forums from Ben Bar­den.
I blogged with­out allow­ing com­ments for a cou­ple of years. I was just writ­ing for myself. The blog was just for me to jour­nal, cre­ate back­grounds and play with code. I knew I had some read­ers, some of […]

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