Posts in: Blogging and Metablogging
- How to Blog for Business
- To really work, Sierra observed, an entrepreneur’s blog has to be about something bigger than his or her company and his or her product. This sounds simple, but it isn’t. It takes real discipline to not talk about yourself and your company. Blogging as a medium seems so personal, and often it is. But when [...] [3 Mar 2010]
- On providing valuable content
- Robert Niles tells newsrooms what they need to do to stay relevant in his Online Journalism Review piece, Walt Disney vs. the news industry: How bad management is killing newspapers and their websites. The audience doesn’t care about saving newsroom jobs or keeping journalists in journalism. Nor should it. The people who provide true value to [...] [20 Nov 2009]
- Does your blog have (or need) a content strategy?
- From How to Develop a Content Strategy for Your Professional Blog on Web Worker Daily: Here’s the secret: you don’t have to obsess about your content strategy, especially when posting regularly becomes a habit. You just have to do what feels natural to you. But taking time to prepare your objectives, intentions, schedule and scope allows [...] [16 Nov 2009]
- A complete list of JS-Kit Echo Classes for use with CSS
- I am implementing JS-Kit Echo for a project at work, and I am modifying it to match our design more closely. The Echo wiki has some great documentation on how to modify an Echo skin, but I needed more. Below is the complete list of every Echo-related class, as found in the WordPress plug-in. Notes: Each line [...] [13 Oct 2009]
- Recommended viewing: How NOT to Build a WordPress Plugin
- An amazing video from WordCamp Portland 2009 with tips on how to build a better WordPress plug-in. Lots of nuggets about functions and constants that aren’t covered in the codex. [1 Oct 2009]
- Sort of pro-blogging for my massage therapist
- I’m dipping my toe in the pro-blogging waters for my massage therapist’s web site. I’m not (yet) doing it for pay, but I am doing it to gain some real world experience in running and writing for a successful [read: one that generates business] blog on behalf of a client. Below are links to a [...] [9 Mar 2009]
- Giving this IntenseDebate business a try
- My comments are disabled right now. Why? Because I’m trying to install IntenseDebate. Apparently it takes a few hours to import existing comments into the IntenseDebate services. In the meantime, y’all can’t say nothing bad ’bout me … not here at least. UPDATE: It looks like comments were broken because something went wrong during the import [...] [9 Dec 2008]
- My love life. Online.
- I know this post is a bit disjointed. I wrote it in a bit of a rush this morning because I wanted to put it out there while I felt inspired to do it. I learned this lesson the hard way. I blogged about my breakup that started in February 2007, here, on Vox, and on [...] [8 Sep 2008]
- WordPress 2.6 released today
- The big new features? Edit tracking: Tucked way down at the bottom of each post is a revision history. You can see who changed what and when. SSL support for your administrative panel, plus the ability to force SSL logins. That’s critical if you frequently blog from public WiFi spots. Press This: Post links, YouTube and Yahoo! Videos [...] [15 Jul 2008]
- Recommended: “Ugly Violet”
- Quoted from the piece: I just write and talk about sex. But every woman on the Internet gets called slutty and ugly and fat (to put it lightly) no matter what; all we have to be is female. In dinner conversation, my friend Lori reminded me of the Oscar Wilde quote, “Give a man a [...] [29 Mar 2008]