5 Ways to Get (Re)Motivated about your Blog
Remember writing your first blog post? Â The nervousness, the thrill? Â That moment you realized you could share your message from the tallest mountain, for all the world to hear? The moment you realized that this could be really fun? Yeah. It’s pretty heady stuff. One […]
Is Your Blog an Introvert?
Well, well. Now, this is fun. Doug over at AVeryFineLine introduced me to an uber-hip new web tool. It’s a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)… for BLOGS! And, according to many bloggers, it’s pretty accurate. I typed in Lisa Call’s blog, for example — and the […]
If Copywriters Wrote Song Titles…
I love ad copy. And I love writing magnetic, catchy headlines on my blog. But it makes me wonder… What if copywriters wrote song titles? This is a snapshot of what the Rolling Stone Greatest Songs of All Time would look like… #1 – Rock-Solid […]
Bloggers are from Mars, Songwriters are from Venus
My last post was called A Crash Course in Blueberries. It was inspired by an overheard conversation in a grocery store. It wasn’t about blueberries exactly. It was about delight. My title was a veiled reference to Catie Curtis’s CD, “A Crash Course in Roses.” […]
Bake Sales or Blogging: What’s your Paradigm?
A year ago, I picked up an injured cardinal on the side of the road. I took it to a wildlife rehab center in my city. I wrote a post about it. On a whim, at the end of the post, I accepted PayPal donations […]
A Blog of One’s Own
Here’s the deal: This is a list of women bloggers. It’s called The W List. (As opposed to The W Hotel – where the music in the elevators is at Abercrombie & Fitch levels.) I’m thrilled to be on this list. (And not in The […]
BlogHer07 Begins Today
Conferences and conventions are intense. There are echo-chamber rooms that resonate with so many loud noises that you have to shout to the person you’re meeting. There are people dressed in tuxedos with trays of tiny food offerings that combine such an unlikely group of […]
SOBCon07, or My First Blog Conference, or “Dude, There’s a Druid in the Lobby.”
This past weekend, I performed at (and participated in) the First Annual Successful & Outstanding Blog Conference in Chicago, IL. About 125 bloggers descended upon the O’Hare Sofitel. I was one of them. Here are a few of my snapshots of the weekend’s events: FRIDAY […]
18 Stupid Mistakes Bloggers Make in their First Year
My blog is one year old today. I’m no longer a blogling. I have matured. Pretty soon my blog will need Botox. Or Viagra. Or both. I’ve learned more this year about websites, blogs and the internet than I ever thought I’d want to learn. […]