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Guest Posts Boom Now Bust

July 3, 2011

Writing guests posts was an excellent way to have someone else give a voice to your blog and be able to take a day off from writing something yourself. it also let new writers break into new blogs, new topics and get some attention/ promotion for their own sites in return. But, like so many [...]

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Don’t Be Afraid of Bold

September 9, 2010

I’m kind of a shy, quiet person. When I was a teenager and had my first real job I was so quiet the other women thought I was a Mennonite. It wasn’t a comment on my fashion choices, I was just quiet. I’ve always second guessed anything I do that puts me into a spotlight [...]

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Is HTML 5 Real?

June 13, 2010

I found a link to HTML5 demos through Twitter. I lost track of the original link to whoever posted it on Twitter. The post says: So you’ve heard all rumors about HTML5 would take over Adobe Flash. While most web community argues that it’s possible or not, you must be wandering what makes HTML5 so [...]

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Keep Yourself in Your Blog

September 5, 2009

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” – Cyril Connolly Part of running a blog is promoting it. It is easy to cross the line from promoting into spamming. At that point most bloggers also lose track of the content in their blog, [...]

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Choosing Web Scripts, Gadgets and Widgets

August 3, 2009

One thing I have learned to watch for when I look at free web scripts, gadgets, widgets and such are hitchhikers. Before you paste the code into your HTML paste it into Notepad first. Read the code. Do you see a link to a third party URL? A site not your own or the one [...]

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Pretty Simple Site Promotion Ignored

July 28, 2009

It bugs me when I go to a business or charity type of site and find they have nothing extra to offer me. Not only is it harder and harder to find a real way of contacting anyone online but they are often really skimpy on content too. What are they saving it for? Why [...]

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Simple SEO for Your Site

June 16, 2009

Have a look at URL Appraisal for fun, mainly. See what it says your domain is worth. I think anything not on it’s own domain is already going to score low from this SEO based site. WordGrrls was appraised at $512.80. I had a look at what they recommend for simple things you can do [...]

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Especially Special Events

December 2, 2008

Do you know enough HTML code to change your site for the holidays? Try it! I know we are supposed to bow to the gods of branding but take a break from worshipping at Christmas time, Halloween, Valentines Day and other events. Even if it’s just for one day. Brighten up your site with a [...]

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Choosing Web Scripts, Gadgets and Widgets

December 11, 2007

One thing I have learned to watch for when I look at free web scripts, gadgets, widgets and such for adding to my blog are hitchhikers. Before you paste the code into your HTML paste it into Notepad first. Read the code. Do you see a link to a third party URL? A site not [...]

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Get FAQ’ed

February 19, 2007

Try this: Consider your website (or your computer if you don’t have a site) and put together a FAQ (frequently asked questions) page all about your site. Don’t forget a guide to how to use the site as well as the purpose for it being there. Study a few other FAQs to get ideas. This [...]

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Members of the Media

January 22, 2007

In the columnist message boards at BackWash, someone said “Don’t you just love the media.” They meant it sarcastically in reference to how an interview was handled. But, what they didn’t consider is that WE ARE the media. I think a lot of writers take shots at ‘the media’ and forget to count themselves among [...]

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Blog for Fame

October 9, 2006

Want to be famous and trendy on the Internet? Join the personal publishing era – get blogging. Weblogs are part scrapbook, part magazine, part journal, part soapbox, part obligation and part fantasy. Anything that can be typed on a computer keyboard or made into a digital file (images, sounds and scanned items) can be part [...]

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Handling Fanmail

July 10, 2006

I started reading “Guerrilla Marketing for Writers”. One thing that struck me as was this: “You can show your involvement with your fans by being cordial when you contact them, by being helpful to them, and by asking about them.” Almost no one does that any more in the great big, fast, condensed world of [...]

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A Writer’s Website

May 15, 2006

Here are my ideas about making a writer’s site an asset to you and a resource for others to come to. It’s a bit scattered as I am leaving for Ottawa tomorrow and have some family stuff ongoing. But, I wanted to share the ideas while they were brewing around in my brain. I think [...]

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