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The Easy and Hard Way to Start a Blog
July 21st, 2008 |In all these years, I don’t think I’ve ever posted anything about starting a blog. Someone emailed me asking how to get a blog and start blogging. So here you go. There’s an easy way and there’s a hard way. The Easy Way Here you just fill out a form, make a few choices, and you’re in business. [...]
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Do You Own the Rights to Your Site?
July 10th, 2008 |I can’t help but hear… “You’ve gotta fight… for the right… to own your site” in my head. I can’t help but have that ’80s group Beastie Boys who remade You’ve Got to Fight for Your Right to Party playing in my head from time to time. {Taps head to try to get the song [...]
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Google Me!
June 16th, 2008 |The winner of Seth Godin’s $800 DVD set from How To Add Colour To A Grey Day entry as selected by Random.org … Yvonne Russell! Congratulations, Yvonne! And the winner of the addicting First Class Flurry from Assorted Blogging History Lessons entry as Random.org went to work again… Karen Swim! Congratulations, Karen! No, no… I’m not asking you [...]
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Do You Own Your Web Site?
June 5th, 2008 |This entry’s prize: Two copies of Big Kahuna Reef 2: one for Macs (!) and one for PCs. Comment by June 9 to be eligible). Leave a comment with at least 30 words (to ensure they provide value) by June 9 to get an entry. Our guest blogger today is a chick, and a very talented [...]
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7 Things You Must Know Before Moving Your Blog
June 2nd, 2008 |Today we have our first guest post in the blog birthday bash celebration to give Meryl almost a month off from blogging (well, someone has to post the entries and the prizes as I have no fingers). Yuwanda Black of Inkwell Editorial and Meryl have lightly crossed paths, but they finally connected when she interviewed [...]
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Links: 2008-05-16
May 16th, 2008 |Small Business Administration Free Online Courses Language Is a Virus: Cures for writer’s block, poetry generator, character name generator, and many more cool tools for writers. 11 Irresistible Reasons to Write Everyday SOBCon08 recaps: Long list of entries related to SOBCon, event [...]
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Links: 2008-04-04
April 4th, 2008 |Can’t get the media to do a write up? Perhaps, guilty of one of these angry journalist complaints? Work on a site with a team [Google edition] [Yahoo edition] [Microsoft Live edition]. This tool comes in handy when you’re working with a team on a Web site and [...]
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Question Your Work
April 3rd, 2008 |37signals asks eight questions before, during, and sometimes after working on a project or task. These questions work well for writers and other freelancers. Those of us who work solo rarely have anyone to check with us to make sure we’re on the right track. So we need to help ourselves figure out if we’re on [...]
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Short Introductions on Web Pages
March 31st, 2008 |Jakob Nielsen’s Blah-Blah Text makes an important point that web site visitors want to cut to the chase. They don’t want to waste time with a welcome message or any of that. We writers have learned that we need to have an opening, body, and conclusion. But we also know that writing for the web breaks [...]
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Usability Testing Cheap and Fast Part II
January 31st, 2008 |Dennison asked excellent questions in response to How to Do Usability Testing Cheap and Fast: Tell me if I follow correctly: Do you do the test only on users that have their own PC with them? So if you happen to be in a store where nobody has a machine or is willing to take the [...]
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