October 25, 2007 – 4:43 am
We all know people who have changed our lives. Some we know well and intimately, like good friends and family. Others, we know only through their existence on the planet, fame, fortune, or infamy. Yet, their lives influenced our thoughts, decisions, and feelings about ourselves and the world around us.
Writing a biography is different from [...]
October 18, 2007 – 4:40 am
While this might be easy for some, it will be a real challenge for others.
Your blog challenge this week is:
To blog about something you know nothing about.
Not just anything, but something you really know nothing about. It doesn’t have to be interesting to you, since you know nothing about it or never wanted to. [...]
October 11, 2007 – 4:20 am
Your blogging challenge this week is dedicated to the holidays which fall, for most cultures, in the last month or so of the year. Be it Thanksgiving and Christmas, Hanuka, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, or whatever holidays occur for your culture, religion or nation.
Your blogging challenge is:
Blog about a traditional holiday ritual, habit, memory, or aspect [...]
September 7, 2007 – 3:35 am
As part of this ongoing celebration of the second anniversary of WordPress.com and this blog, this month is dedicated to blogging about WordPress Tips. This week’s blogging challenge is:
Blog about your favorite WordPress tip.
Think back to when you first started experimenting with WordPress. What tip was the most important for you to learn during those [...]
August 21, 2007 – 3:03 am
What did your first blog start out to be about? Did it have a plot and plan?
What is is now?
Did your blog take off in a new direction from your intention when you started blogging? Where did you start, and where did you dawdle along the way, and where have you ended up [...]
August 14, 2007 – 5:40 am
I have a horrible habit. It’s not really a habit as much as a constant boo boo. I type exceptionally fast and frequently hit the space bar before the letters slip off my fingers, creating memorable combinations of letters to spell “the” like hte, t he, theo, and eth? I’m also quite renown for quiet [...]
Sometimes I find a post that “sings”, that makes my heart glow with gladness because someone got it.
It’s fun to help people discover where their passion lies. I guess it appeals to the a teacher in me. Just let me start with a question. Then I get to do go looking for relationships while [...]
This week’s blogging challenge is designed to push you out of your comfort zone. I want you to do some research on who is blogging about what subjects and blog about the most unusual blogger and blog topic you can find.
I call this the “blogging going to the birds post”, and if you think blogging [...]
Have you heard the anonymous quote:
Everyone’s tombstone will have two dates separated by a dash. That little dash is your time on this planet measured against eternity. How do you plan to live out that dash?
Your blogging challenge this week?
Blog about your dash.
If the above quote is truth, how do you plan to live out [...]
How do you determine the success of a blog post?
Is the number of comments on a post indicative of the post’s popularity and success? Is it the traffic that comes to that post? Is it the number of trackbacks? Is it the fact that the post got dug by Digg or linked to from [...]
Everybody has a story. About their life. About their work. About how they got their current job. About how they want out of their current job. About their parents. About their childhood. About their schools. About…well, everything.
This week’s blog challenge is to blog your blog’s story.
What is the story behind your blog?
I want to know [...]
You might blog from home or an office, but if you take your blogging on the road, how much crap is in your blogging bag?
While the stuff you carry around with you to do your blogging may or may not have much to actually do with your blogging, this week’s blogging challenge is to list [...]
I’ve heard a lot of people make jokes about trying to describe blogging to their mother, grandmother, father, and even to co-workers and bosses. Even a best friend’s eyes glaze over when that slogging, logging, grogging, flogging, whatchamacallit - oh, yes, B-L-O-G-Ging thing comes up in conversation.
This week, your blogging challenge is to describe blogging.
Think [...]
Who are you counting on to give you the news you need for your blog? To help you find stories to write about and things to comment on?
Who are your guides? Mentors? The blogs and sites stuffed into your feed reader that help you understand how this blogging thing works or how the industry [...]
Where do your favorite bloggers live? Do you know? Does it matter? Well, for this blog challenge it does.
This week’s blog challenge is to research your favorite bloggers, usually the ones you read through your feed reader or bookmark and return to repeatedly, to find out where they live and work.
The answer might be [...]
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