Nov
06

Marketplace Community WordPress Theme – Nice for Bloggers!

marketplace-theme

I just ran across the Marketplace WordPress Theme on Themeforest, and it’s NICE! It’s clean, very easy on the eyes, and is conducive to a great blogging layout. The demo is for a photography blog, but it would be great for any kind of blog. It has good (but limited) adspace, a very nice flow…
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Nov
06

What I Do When I Read a Good Blog Post

I get excited when I read a good blog post. And I react, which is exactly what you want me to do if you’re the writer. That’s the point, in fact. Get me to react, respond, interact, promote… you want me to act. So you’ve endeavored to make your post actionable for that very reason.…
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Nov
05

Subscribe to We Blog Better’s (Future) Mailing List

I’m going to publish a newsletter chock-full of blogging tips, links, and resources… eventually. It may be January 2010, but rather than issue a guaranteed date just yet, I’ll just tell you that when the content of this blog is ripened and matured to just the right point, you’ll be the first to be notified,…
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Nov
05

Blogging Won’t Kill You, It Won’t Even Make You Weird

People who hang out online, whether on those things called “blogs” or those other things called “social networks” (especially Twitter and Facebook) are all really weird, right? They’re socially out-of-touch recluses who are damaging their psyches? Well, apparently NOT.

Nov
04

Great Online Hangouts for Bloggers

When I was a kid, I hung out in the woods and baseball card stores. When I was a teenager it was the mall and the movie theater. Now? It’s bookstores like LifeWay, Borders, and Barnes & Noble. But online, I have some places I like to hang out as well. Call them time bandits…
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Nov
03

Why the English Language Stinks for Blogging

English is all I know. I tried Spanish 101 in college – crawled out with a “C”. I do know some Greek, but it’s Koine Greek, which nobody speaks anymore. So I’m stuck blogging in English, which is challenging. Why? Well… I didn’t write any of what follows – came to me in one of…
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Nov
03

Via Fuel Your Blogging: How to Run A Successful Series of Articles

How to Run A Successful Series of Articles

Have you ever considered running a series of posts on your blog? I’ve just written some tips about this over at Fuel Your Blogging. Go check it out…

Nov
02

The Benefits of Preview and Review Blog Posts

I remember hearing in speech class a long time that a speech could be condensed to three segments… Tell’em what you’re going to tell them. Tell’em. Tell’em what you told’em. I’ve heard the same principle apply to writing also, but I’d like to apply it to blogging on a slightly larger scale (even though I…
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Nov
02

Obox Introduces Premium Micro-blogging Themes – Awesome!

Micro-blogging, as in Tumblr and Posterous, both of which are excellent micro-blogging platforms. The beauty of both is in the ease of posting stuff from anywhere by email, bookmarklet, or the web, and in aggregating feeds from multiple sources into a kind of fused micro-blog. Now Obox has released their first (hopefully of many) wave…
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Nov
01

If You’re Not On Twitter, You May Not Exist

I’ve said for years that if you can’t be found in Google search results, you may not exist. (I also heard this from Phil Cooke.) I don’t mean that about people – just websites. Now I’m beginning to say the same thing about Twitter. If you’re website’s feed isn’t fed to Twitter in some way,…
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