WordCount is taking a break this week while I’m on vacation, so I’m rerunning some of my most popular posts. Today: Blogging Basics for Writers 6 simple steps for starting your freelance writing blog – Includes information on picking a topic, choosing software, committing to regular postings and more. How to write great freelance blog […]
The funny side of Twitter
My post about Twitter, or rather why I’m not using it due to social network overload, generated a lot of comments and even more page views. People who use it love it, and swear that it’s helping the promote their books, blogs, etc. Other people – myself included – find themselves distracted enough with everyday […]
Social network overload and why I don't do Twitter
I’m on LinkedIn. I joined Facebook a while back, and Del.icio.us and Technorati. I’m on my favorite message board for freelancers at least a dozen times a day. But I can’t do Twitter. At least not yet. There’s only so many hours one person can devote to online social networks, and only so many social […]
Expert blogger tips: revisiting old posts, previewing new ones
File this under blog maintenance – great blogging advice from two experts. Reading old blog posts – The first comes from a social media expert I check in with often, Tac Anderson, a Web 2.0 manager at HP who I interviewed for a story awhile back and then got to know a little better. Anderson’s […]
Should you put ads on your blog?
Your blog has picked up a decent amount of traffic, enough to make you wonder whether you could actually make money from it. And what’s one of the best ways to make money from a blog? Advertise. That’s the conventional thinking. But when I posed the question to a bunch of freelance writers and bloggers […]
More on blog post comments: be careful what you wish for
Last week I wrote a post lamenting how difficult it is to get people to leave comments on blog posts. The post generated a lot of comments – ironic yes, but a good thing too – because it proved food for additional thought on the subject. The general consensus of the dozen or so people […]