Welcome to July! Where will your adventures take you this month? Going on vacation, to the fireworks, to a parade, to the beach, to a conference? Will I see you at BlogHer ’08 in San Francisco? Check out the list of BlogHer ’08 attendees. I had so much fun volunteering […]
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How about you? Do you like to keep this kind of information secret? In 24 months of publishing posts, I didn’t think to let you in on something you might want to know: my most popular posts and my top recommendations. So, here’s my first report. In 30 days, I […]
How do you know when it’s time to stay where you are, forge ahead or turn around? I turned around two times while hiking this week in New Mexico. The prospect of slipping on loose rocks and tumbling down steep inclines made my mind convince me that going up wasn’t […]
If you are thinking of blogging, here are ten ways blogging helps you grow business online . . . .1. Differentiates you/your company as innovative and influential 2. Saves money on website design-maintenance: low or no-cost 3. Simplifies content creation, no HTML or Web design software 4. Makes updates instantaneous […]
One of our most successful PR campaigns was written by our client’s patrons. We asked them to write love letters. With the writing prompt: “Why I Love My Library” and red heart-shaped notes, patrons of all ages penned their own love story. Then, they were free to post their note […]
Hat tips to Gavin for letting me know about My ooVoo Day and to Abraham Harrison for the details.What would it be like to talk to your favorite blogger in person? Thanks to ooVoo, you don’t have to travel to a blog or social media conference to find out.In a […]
3-11-08 Update Workshop rescheduled. Stay tuned! Contact Barbara to set up your web PR publishing platform. When Ray Silverstein [that’s me with Ray in the photo] contacted me to talk about doing a Blogging for Business workshop in Chicago, the power went out and our phones were dead – talk […]
You don’t have to choose between blogging and updating your website. You can do both. If you don’t yet have a blog, get one – now. Waiting another year or two to jump in will put you way, way, way behind your competition. The race for SEO keyword market share […]
Problogger is hosting a contest to win a copy of Web Design for ROI. To enter, you need to leave a comment about a blog theme you love [Darren‘s word] and use the keyword web design. This post is a good place to see what other people find attractive. I […]
If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog [affiliate link], you know how easy it is to change themes. Download, save, upload, extract and click. And, if you’ve checked in here lately, you know I’ve been doing lots of that. Changing looks runs in my family. If we have an outfit […]