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 […]
How to write blog posts that get comments
Blogs are supposed to be community endeavors. You write something. People read it and respond with their own opinions or experience. But how to get people to leave comments? First you have to get them to your blog. I’m working on that. But once they’ve arrived and read what they’ve come for, how do you […]
WordCount blog: 2008 Q2 report
The end of June marked the end of Q2 of writing this blog, which I officially launched in January to keep track of changes in the freelance writing and online news business. In the past three months, WordCount hit some major milestones. Here are a few: Best month ever – When I decided to write […]
Go online to get business cards in a hurry
I haven’t carried business cards for years. I normally work from home and when I meet people I ask to exchange email addresses, or to add them to my LinkedIn connections. Business cards just didn’t seem important. But I realized I might need them when I went to a Mediabistro.com media networking party a couple […]
If you like blogging every day, try NaBloPoMo
I wish I’d heard of Eden Marriott Kennedy a month ago. Kennedy is the creator of National Blog Post Month or NaBloPoMo for short, a Website for people who’ve taken up the challenge of blogging every day. That should sounds familiar to regular readers of this blog, which I took through my own blogathon during […]
The art of the link
If you’re a writer and you work online, you need to know how to write a lead, nut graph, headline, deck – and how to link. Linking means including live Web addresses or URLs in your story to information related to whatever it is you’re writing about. The art of the link is in putting […]