Tag: Blogging
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An elevator speech for my blog
The first exercise in 31 Days to Build a Better Blog is to write an elevator speech for my blog. This has been a little challenging for me because I never though of trying to describe my blog to someone in an elevator speech before. But this is a great exercise to try and put in words…
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Expanding my horizons with 31DBBB
Familiarity breeds contempt – an idiom that basically says, the better you know something, the less you respect it. A simple example is like when you first learn that knives are sharp, you’re very careful not to cut yourself. After using them for many years, you sometimes get careless and misuse or abuse them. The…
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No more PUI (Posting Under the Influence)
Yesterday I thought I had written a great post about where I was going with my WordPress powered blog. In my minds eye I knew exactly what I was saying. I thought I had written a complete post. The problem was that I was Posting while Under the Influence. It wasn’t under the influence of alcohol. It was…
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WordPress in my future
During my first 100 posts, I have been getting used to the routine of blogging. I have been mainly focused on the content and not worrying about the presentation. I have been kind of taken for granted the software called WordPress. WordPress provides a consistent and feature rich user experience for bloggers and blog readers. I just…
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ProBlogger book review
I just finished reading the book called ProBlogger by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett. I actually heard about the book through Darren’s website http://www.problogger.net I recently saw Darren in a video commenting on their book. He said the book was a compilation of information blogged about over the years. They took all that information and made it current with…