Tag: Blogging

I know, I know, I’ve been missing for almost a month from my blog. Don’t worry, I am still here. It’s summer, I am catching up with my sleep, thinking about my future, reading, savoring the World Cup victory but mostly obsessing over what Marco Materazzi might have said to Zinédine Zidane (some speculations...

How to Blog Series « 2. Start blogging | 3. Writing good posts | 4. Blog Networking » If you regularly visit blogs, you know that blog posts come in all shapes and sizes. Posts can be long, medium, or short (sometimes really short, like Jim Henley’s renowned one-word post that has collected 1104...

How to Blog Series « 1. Blog Basics | 2. Start blogging | 3. Writing good posts » Typically, people get into blogging by reading blogs. Most blog readers are not bloggers, they just enjoy visiting and reading/listening/viewing content that others create. And this is great: blogs need readers. Some people, after lurking for...

Exactly one year ago I bought my domain and started a WordPress blog. It’s been a wonderful adventure. (In case you are wondering:  no, I don’t plan to quit blogging any time soon.) When I started blogging I didn’t have a "blog strategy." I doubt I even knew what a blog strategy was. I...

I frequently receive questions about blogging from friends and through my site. When I was new to blogging I realized that it wasn’t easy to locate basic instructions on blogs and blogging. Most of the articles I found assumed some level of knowledge I didn’t have at the time. For this reason, I’ve decided...