How Twitter Makes You A Better Writer
The topic of this post is based on a suggestion from @carlincomm – “101 Reasons that Twitter makes you a better writer. 1-A tweet is a great headline. 2-140 characters builds discipline. 3-more fun”...
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Last Friday, we talked a bit about how Twitter can make you a better writer. While there are hundreds of reasons Twitter can be a fantastic tool, there are just as many reasons it can be detrimental....
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The 10 Commandments of Blogging
Just like every Wednesday before this, today brings yet another list of rules for the marketing world. Although this week, we’re more on the topic of self-marketing (specifically self-branding). Here...
View ArticleElectronic Media
In a world where everyone is increasingly concerned with the ability of media to be personalized, it’s only obvious that we’d start turning to “virtual” libraries rather than real ones. Who wants to...
View ArticleCreative Voice
What tone does your writing take? Are you the all-knowing sage of product advice, or the trendy counter-culture revolutionary introducing a new idea? What does the tone of your marketing copy say...
View ArticleDistraction Free Reading Mode
I’m a big fan of the “distraction free writing mode” within WordPress. For those of you who haven’t seen it – launch a new post in WordPress and click the full-screen icon on the editor. Your mind...
View ArticleHow to Blog More in 2014
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to chat with some incredible people around the WP Watercooler. We were talking about strategies for writing/blogging more in 2014, and I wanted to further...
View ArticleDaily Dogfooding
I am appalled by the number of people who work with WordPress for a living but don’t use it outside of work. To me, it would be like a mechanic who works all day on high-end cars, but rides a bike home...
View ArticleWhy I Write
I love to read. As a kid, I used to bike to the library every other day. I’d check out my maximum of 3 books at a time, bike home, and dig right in. Mystery novels. Horror stories. Historical...
View ArticleHow To: Blog Every Day
Once upon a time I taught a writing seminar that focused on building several “pillar content” articles on a site. The attendees were a diverse bunch: out-of-work marketers wanting to learn new tech,...
View ArticlePick a Topic
When I tell people I write a blog daily, their feedback is often first along the lines of “you’re crazy” and then evolves to “how do you find topics?” In a past life, I wanted to be a writer, but I...
View ArticleTransparent Monetization
I have never made a profit off my own writing. That’s not to say I’ve never made money off my writing. In a past life I worked as a marketing consultant and wrote thousands of words – for pay – each...
View ArticleDaily Habits
For the past several weeks, I’ve made a concerted effort to blog every day. When you do something daily, it becomes an ingrained habit – something you can continue to do without even thinking about it....
View ArticleStories and Bias
I love stories. Reading stories, writing stories, telling stories. They’re a way to recount history and, through fiction, a way to make persuasive points about one thing or another. I’ve always been a...
View ArticleDiversify your Audience
As you progress in skill with one field or another, it’s often important to ensure your other talents don’t rust away. I write on this site daily and often cover WordPress as it’s highly relevant to my...
View ArticleIndie Publishing
The birth of blogging was heralded as the death of traditional publishing. Now anyone could be a writer, and anyone could see their words distributed to any audience anywhere. It also meant that anyone...
View ArticleA Night with Patrick Rothfuss
I’ve read the annual Writers of the Future anthology every year since I discovered it in high school. It’s a fantastic anthology of cutting edge new fiction from yet-to-be-discovered authors. That’s...
View ArticleWhite Hat Documentation
The act of both finding and publishing information online is an interesting one. On the one hand, sometimes I come across information I’m not supposed to have. When people discover I know something...
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