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Bloggers: Ready for hate?

I came across an article in the online San Francisco Chronicle titled 20 habits of highly effective job seekers.  This was written based on Ford Myers stuff… I have met Ford a few times at conferences...

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Starting a New Blog: Letting Others Know

My friend Brad Merrill took the plunge and started a blog. It has the potential to be an awesome personal branding tool for himself, and I applaud what he’s doing. This is the first of two posts where...

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Starting a New Blog: Blog Post Critique

Monday I gave feedback to Brad Merrill about HOW he let others know about his blog… today I want to write about a blog post (his second post). Brad titled the post What is Ethical Behavior?  It’s a...

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Want to write a book? Kill your darlings :)

I just saw a link to a Harvard Business Review article by Jerry Weissman titled In Presentations, Kill Your Darlings. I’ve talked a lot about being “concise,” but I’m not sure people know what that...

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TOOL: After The Deadline – grammar and spelling

Cleo Parker shot me a note about After the Deadline… looks like an awesome tool for writing better.  You can use it for free, and if you have a web service you can incorporate it there, for free.  I...

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OOPS! Leave a comment on the blog, but we make it impossible!

I just read an interesting blog post, and decided to leave a comment. My comment was really good (yes, I’m biased).  It was highly relevant, and helpful to the blogger as well as to her readers. When...

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Are You Blogging Effectively?

This morning I have written four blog posts, on four different blogs.  Well, with this one, make that FIVE. Why do I do it? Because blogging continues to be an incredibly effective tool for outreach,...

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Robert Merrill asks What is the New Blogging?

Check out Robert’s post here. My answer was so long I thought I’d make it the subject of this post: Robert, thanks for this post and inviting me to comment. This evolution has been frustrating to...

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Tesla vs NYT: Absolutely fascinating

I have been blogging for almost seven years. I remember when journalist (real journalists) hated on bloggers.  Bloggers were naive, they didn’t fact-check, they were sloppy, they had typos, the were...

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Writing Awesome Blog Posts

Excellent blog post (with a killer slideshare embedded) on Windmill Networking.  This was written by Kristi Hines: Composing a Successful Blog Post I’ve been blogging for about 7 years, almost daily...

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Take that, social networking!

Social, including blogging, has evolved so much since I seriously got involved back in 2006.  Eight years ago. First we saw comments go from a blog post go to Facebook… and Twitter… and all of the...

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Adding a Blog page to your blog

I recently set up my newest project, VideoGameClass.com, where I’ll be teaching people how to make video games using GameSalad. The class is going to be super-cool. While setting up the blog I do a...

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