5 newbie mistakes I’d avoid if I started blogging today
It’s another Blogathon theme day, when everyone writing on the same thing. Our topic: If I started a blog today, what would I do differently? Here’s my answer.
Dear WordCount: How do I set up an RSS feed for my blog?
This installment of the weekly advice column tackles two basics beginning bloggers need to know : RSS feeds and labeling posts using categories and tags.
Take these 4 simple steps to optimize your blog for mobile browsing
In this guest post, writer and web design instructor Sarah Moon shares simple and not so simple tips for making content stand out on mobile devices.
Reading list for April 27: ASJA writers conference, and more
This week’s recommended reading for writers – follow tweets from ASJA’s 2012 Writers Boot Camp in NYC, data journalism, online business reporting class and more.
How freelancers and other writers can use Pinterest
Promote a blog, develop a character, track a subject – writers are using the hugely popular image-sharing site for all this and more. Read on to see how.
Recommended reading for April 8: Don’t act like an old fart
Steve Buttry tells reporters to get with the 21st century and more news and advice on writing and the writing business from the past week.
3/02/2012 recommended reading for writers: McSweeney’s, About.com, the art of the link
To do good writing, read good writing. Here’s the good writing I’ve been reading this week: It’s been too long since I shared a Friday reading list. Blame it on an over-abundance of work, laziness or being out of town. Regardless, I’m back. And here’s my recommendations for good reads from this week: The Official [...]
Out with the old, and in with the new (computer)
If all goes well, this will be the last blog post I write – on my current office computer. I’ve used this eMachines PC for more years than I care to remember; it’s been at least five, maybe closer to six. A new hard drive and a few other essential upgrades have kept her alive [...]
Get paid to tweet
Read a snippet from a Q&A freelance writer April Choi did with me for Ebyline about getting paid to tweet, then follow the link to the original post.
Poll: What web apps do you use for your freelance business?
Take this short poll to help me decide what to include in a panel discussion on web apps for writers at the ASJA 2012 conference next April in New York.
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