Follow my musings about painting in an old farm house in New York, being single and living with a teenager, working for a living, driving a Subaru and social networking.
If you think about blogging, and the reasons why people give it up, you can start to see that blogging is really a community thing and without community, it starts to get pointless, lonely, and feels like a waste of time.
This is the same for both business and personal blogs.
This topic generated a lot of interest on my blog and it's a great one to get people talking. Suggestions for developing the conversation:
Too many people are taking the idea of "fake it 'til you make it" to extremes, and doing harm to themselves and others along the way. Is it time to reconsider the wisdom of this philosophy? And is there an alternative to "faking it"? Join in the debate at the Motivation 101 Blog!
How to get FREE books!! If you are like me, someone that likes to read, then having an opportunity to get books for free is a huge plus. If in addition to expanding your library you get another topic to blog and talk about, well that's an even better added bonus isn't it?
I talk about how to get free books and why you would want to do it also how and what you should write in your review.
In the context of a recent spate of posts about social media experts and their titles, I explain the name of my blog and try to give some rationale for why I chose the title "Social Media Wannabe."
I'd love to get feedback on the whole phenomena of social media experts and will be looking foward to checking out others talking about the same subject.
If you follow me and have a blog, chances are I follow you back and try hard to comment on posts that you make... because I love knowing more about you, keeping up with recipes, your kids, the family drama, the pets etc... and I also try to enter your giveaways and contests when it's a product or service that I could really use... I also am one of those people who actually read product and book reviews regularly - because I know that honest, well thought out opinions will help me be a better consumer and a better shopper...
We live in a hyper-connected world where information is accessible at any time and any place. And it’s spawning a whole generation of consumers that are more intelligent, more conscious and more aware than ever before. Consumers have surpassed traditional marketing attempts to influence their behavior, and are reshaping the landscape to fit personal values, goals and objectives.
An attempt to talk about Internet social networking culture,behavioral expectations and social capital in terms that are simple and easy to understand. This post examines the "when in Rome" aspects of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
I love writing poetry. Sometimes the ideas and words form sultry webs in my mind for me to unravel and put back together again for others to understand. For me, that is the key to my poetry. My thoughts, though tangled they may be for a time, must ultimately be understood by others for it to have value and meaning.
Ever stop to ask yourself these simple questions when your blogging? Maybe your a newbie who has considered writing a blog, but didn't really know where to start? This blog will get you started, and help more experienced bloggers evaluate themselves.
I wrote this blog entry about ShopKick and what they are doing to monetize their iPhone application with facebook users. I blog about Facebook apps, and the ways to monetize them, basically because the future of personal interaction is changing quickly, and they way people spend their disposable income is vastly different than it was only 5 years ago.
Know you need to utilize social media for business or personal use and just not sure where to start? This blog is about sharing usable information to help you navigate your way through social media. This specific blog post is part 1 of a series on online conduct. Online conduct being the way you or someone on behalf of a company should act and react when using social media. Getting down to basic, almost common sense topics, the blog is designed to help beginners and give experts a new viewpoint and a few tips they might not otherwise have known.
There are many products out there for cats and dogs, and I do purchase them from time to time. However, it doesn’t matter how many cat toys I buy, the favorite has been and probably always will be the ring from the milk carton. The cats know the sound of breaking the seal on the milk carton; they all come running to see who can catch it first when I throw it in the air. They spend hours taking it from each other, playing hide and seek with it and killing it.
For the pets who have everything… how about the idea of a Trust Fund?
Americans own approimately 68 million dogs and 73 million cats, not everyone can leave trust funds, but most are likely concerned about what happens if they aren’t around anymore, and how they are cared for.
After this month’s monsoon season submerged one-fifth of Pakistan under water, I began to wonder if maybe we’ve got it backwards...it seemed apparently the best way to help those who have suffered is to drop as much cash as possible into the humanitarian collection plate every time it’s passed around... http://dkkingwriter.blogspot.com/
how do you communicate the “essence of you” online? your online identity becomes the sum total of the information you share online. sharing information, forming relationships, and allowing your personality to show through creates an interesting & authoritative online persona that can truly market your business and grow your network.
A hard question to answer, I know! But let’s get a collection going, I am eagerly anticipating to hear yours, and I think that this could make for a really amazing and original project - not your average " classic famous quotes collection", but an expression of our uniqueness as writers and readers. If you’ve got a tie (or two, or three…) feel free to post them all! If it's a success, other fabulous collections of lines from poetry or song lyrics could come next, on your blog or mine.
One topic that bloggers and webmasters always seem to debate about is Alexa ranking. In case you do not know what Alexa ranking is, it is a ranking system that is based on traffic to your site. I relate it to the Nielsen ratings for TV. Alexa makes their determinates by looking at traffic from those users that have the Alexa toolbar installed. Many folks in the web world will make a judegement that the lower your Alexa scorte, the better your site. For example, Google has an Alexa ranking of 1. It seems that bloggers are split right down the middle with s
A review of the impact of social networking on communication and conversation between members of the general public. It considers the mass and wealth of information that is placed on websites such as Facebook and Twitter whilst it concedes the usefulness of the technology for promoting stronger relationships between distancing parties.
If your one of those people that think you can’t learn anything from blogging, then you are absolutely wrong. You can learn a few things from blogging because even I learn things every so often. So, what can you learn from blogging?
If there was a class on procrastination – I would get an A+. Currently, through my five years of university thus far, I have learned how to write an essay, how to study, but most of all, amazing ways to procrastinate!
Procrastination is often thought of as being a bad thing; however, in reality, this is not the case. If you procrastinate the right way, it can help you get your schoolwork done and improve the quality of your life.
It’s not like you need any help, but just in case you’re struggling, I have decided to share some of the best ways to procrastinate.
