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The Shortest Lesson Ever
~Haiku Lesson~ Inspiration rains At any time, any place Share your source today Today’s Assignment When and/or where does inspiration for blog posts strike you? Feeling creative? Share your answer in the form of a Haiku . P.S. The inspiration...
Sexy Bookmarks, Toolbars & Time Savers
Since I call this “your blogging classroom on the web”, I decided it was time we talk about homework; or that behind the scenes stuff we often put off. Today’s Lesson As many of you have noticed, I decorated my blog for the holidays...
Requesting Two Minutes Of Your Time
The title “Is Google Making Us Stupid” intrigued me. Nicolas Carr authored this post which implies we may be dealing with a population of people whose reading habits, both online and off, are changing. Our audience might be so preoccupie...
If I Said It First, Is It Mine
Millions of people go online each day and share their brilliance. We see it in blogs and comments alike. With the click of a button, those ideas are ours for the taking. But who do those ideas belong to? Today’s Lesson Suzen of Erasing The Boa...
Save Time – Copy & Paste A Post
No, I’m not saying to plagiarize another blogger’s writings. What I am saying is sometimes we write what could be a post and don’t even realize it. Today’s Lesson As I was reading the comments on The Battle Over Comments &#...
The Battle Over Comments – Part 2
In the comment section of “The Battle Over Comments – Part 1″, many of you mentioned 50 + comments would be a dream come true; a time for celebration. However, once the celebration is over, how to deal with dozens of comments raise...
The Battle Over Comments – Part 1
I don’t know of a blogger who doesn’t love getting comments. Comments can give us validation, be the start of a cyber friendship, make us laugh, make us cry, build up our ego and/or give us warm fuzzies. One comment can be the reason a b...
I Don’t Get It
One thing I notice about people, whether in the real world or online, is each one of us has our own unique talents. You know how it goes. Some are very artistic and can make a stick figure look like a work of art. Others can take words and spin them ...
What Does Your Blog Say About You
Dot over at Deeper Issues and I must be blogging sisters as we both enjoy looking at, experimenting with and/or changing our themes. In the beginning days of blogging, I changed the theme to this blog quite regularly, but now use my test site to pla...
Blog Yourself To A Smaller World
Anyone who has been blogging for any length of time soon finds out blogging can become addictive. So addictive, it can begin to rule our life. Some bloggers stop socializing with their real life friends. Others spend so much time in front of their ...
Let Your Blog Work For You – 25 Ways
The topic of how to make money with a blog gets beat to death. You’ve read it. I’ve read it. We’ve all read it. Truth be told, not all that many bloggers are making money WITH their blogs. What’s happening instead is people a...
If He Can, She Can
I’ve been wanting to use this photo for a long time. After rereading the comments on the “Large Gender Gap Evident In Blogosphere” post, today is the perfect day. Many who commented on the gender gap post were surprised the ratio o...
Large Gender Gap Evident In Blogosphere
Bloggers come from all walks of life. In fact, many people enjoy blogging as it is nondiscriminatory. It doesn’t matter if you’re a man or woman, rich or poor, old or young, educated or not; the door to blogging is open. However, it ...
How Branding Works In Blogosphere
In November of 2008 I wrote a post titled Are Domain Names Over Rated which included a fun “test” where the readers were asked to match the blog name, the name of the author and their avatar (or gravatar -globally recognized avatar). It ...
Would You Wait 17,520 Hours?
Many of us have read we can have some kind of success with blogging. Maybe it will be a book deal. Maybe it’s the fact money can be made with a blog. For some, just being able to share their knowledge is enough For others, success is measured d...
Seize The Opportunity – A Pro Speaks
In his post titled, A New Way To Find Work That You Love Tom Volkar of Delightful Work states, We agree that to be authentic means to be genuine, open, unpretentious, honest and forthright. We also agree that authenticity is good for us. But we tend...
Words For Sale
One thing about blogs and what’s written in them, is they are free. Blogs are free to read and full of free ideas. In fact, some feel because the content is on the web, it’s free to steal. And us bloggers, because we love this hobby so ...
Pajama Blogging – Fact or Fiction
For the second time as I’ve been listening to the news, I’ve heard what I felt were derogatory comments made about bloggers. For the second time, the word bloggers and pajamas are closely joined together. What the story is about isn’...
Pajama Blogging – Fact or Fiction
For the second time as I’ve been listening to the news, I’ve heard what I felt were derogatory comments made about bloggers. For the second time, the word bloggers and pajamas are closely joined together. What the story is about isn̵...
Blog Your Passion
In the comments of the When Real Life Friends Don’t Get It” post, Sara Healy of A Sharing Connection said, “…I love blogging. I love every bit of it…” I echo Sara’s sentiments. I can truthfully say, blogging ...
Blog Your Passion
In the comments of the When Real Life Friends Don’t Get It” post, Sara Healy of A Sharing Connection said, “…I love blogging. I love every bit of it…” I echo Sara’s sentiments. I can truthfully say, blogging ...
Does The Party Ever End
“I’m late for the party”, is how many will start a comment if they are commenting a day or two after a post is published. It almost sounds like an apology. To a blog author, the “party” never ends, but person commenting...
Does The Party Ever End
“I’m late for the party”, is how many will start a comment if they are commenting a day or two after a post is published. It almost sounds like an apology. To a blog author, the “party” never ends, but person commenting...
Caution – Read At Your Own Risk
Many people start blogs as a way to make money. For some it’s a little extra cash which they hope will cover the cost to maintain a blog, whereas others are going all out and are making blogging a full time job. And, as the popularity of blogs...
Caution – Read At Your Own Risk
Many people start blogs as a way to make money. For some it’s a little extra cash which they hope will cover the cost to maintain a blog, whereas others are going all out and are making blogging a full time job. And, as the popularity of blog...
Blogger – The Unintentional Expert
In the comments of Write Responsibly Right From The Start, Nadia of Happy Lotus wrote (in part) … when my blog started to get more popular and people started to ask advice or leave comments, I realized that I had a responsibility because even ...
SEO and Blogging – Keeping It Simple
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a HUGE topic. So large in fact, many blogs are dedicated to just that. Books are written about it, and some businesses are built around it. In the comments of the Readers vs Bots, Making Everyone Happy post, Pat...
Blogging Etiquette – Write The Wrongs
The term “blogging etiquette” might suggest we HAVE TO follow some type of rules when we blog. That’s not the case, at all. A blog can be anything we want it to be and we can act however we choose while online. To me, blogging eti...
When Real Life Friends Don’t “Get It”
Bloggers are very proud of what they post. Being a published author makes their heart sing. Bloggers travel through blogosphere, leave comments, tell their cyber-friends about their latest article, Tweet their work, link to it on Facebook, ask for ...
Write Responsibly Right From The Start
Most of us still remember those first days of blogging. We believed no one would be reading our first attempts at blogging so we either envisioned an imaginary audience or proclaimed “we’re just writing for ourselves and for our friends a...
