A freelance writer acquaintance recently asked how she could quickly and easily boost comments on her new blog. The good news is it is possible to get more people to leave comments on your blog. The bad news is may not be quick or easy. In the 15 months since I started blogging, I’ve seen […]
Dear writer, please don't stop blogging
Dear Michelle, Yours is a wonderful site. I’d started a rather lame attempt at a blog for freelancers, but yours is so thorough and engaging that I’m taking mine down. Congratulations on a really first-rate blog. Dan Baum Dear Dan, Thank you. But please reconsider your decision to take down your blog. I looked and […]
WordCount weekly digital news biz recap week of Feb. 20
In the news this week – the best blogs, the best newspaper websites, the best story on the mortgage crisis, content worth paying for, and a digital news conference to attend. Read all about it: Time Magazine names its top 25 blogs for 2009 including Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, Lifehacker, MetaFilter and The […]
The plugged in president
It’s not surprising that the man who ran an unprecedented Internet campaign, a man who lives on his Blackberry would kick things up a notch when it came to the White House’s online presence. As soon as Barack Obama was inaugurated as the country’s 44th president earlier today, his IT staff flipped the switch on […]
Twitter true confession: I was wrong
Pass the crow. Five months ago I couldn’t be bothered with Twitter. Now I’m here to say: I get it. Last fall I started hearing more writers talk about using Twitter for work, so in December I signed up. It’s easy: you pick a user name and password, write a brief description of yourself, upload […]
Sex sells, and other blogging lessons learned
Made you look. In the blogging world, a catchy title will make people click through to read your post. That’s just one lesson I learned since starting this blog a year ago. I still consider myself an advanced beginner, but I’ve picked up enough over the past 12 months to want to share. Here’s what […]