I’ve written a lot about writing and creating powerful, effective, and attention-getting headlines and post titles on your blog, but more needs to be said on the subject, especially for blogging teachers and students.
The following are not effective nor attention-getting post titles:
March
March 2006
March 17, 2006
Today’s News
Homework
Today’s Homework
In Class Today
I’m Okay
Today
What am I doing?
What am I [...]
Tonight was the first event of the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) in Chicago at the pre-conference meetup hosted by FuelMyBlog.
It was a great opportunity to socialize with many of the return participants to SOBCon, but also to meet new people. It is clear that SOBCon is going to be the event of [...]
Someone is selling Woopra invites on ebay.
Announced recently at WordCamp Dallas, this new web analytics program called Woopra was the talk of the conference. Word spread like wildfire as it was by major tech blogs and everyone wanted access. Unfortunately, since the program is still in development, while sign ups were overwhelming, approvals were slow [...]
Symbols Dictionary is an online encyclopedia of “Western Signs and Ideograms” which makes the Da Vinci Code look like child’s play.
Your blog challenge this week is to find a symbol from among the thousands of symbols in the Symbol Dictionary and write a blog post that incorporates the meaning and history of that symbol. You [...]
By Rachelle Chase
Last week, I used my Sex Lounge Finding Derek Contest - an online contest where hunky guys competed to be the hero of my book - to show the importance of interactive web sites. I focused on the why and how to make your site interactive. This time, I’d like to get more [...]
By Rachelle Chase
Static content that talks to readers is not enough today, especially with the meteoric rise in popularity of online communities and social networking. Good content is still the key to attract and compel people to return to your site, however giving them more than static content and blog comments for interaction gives them [...]
The Reader Appreciation Project has a transcript of Liz Strauss at WordCamp Dallas, along with the video. Her presentation was about the blog conversation and social networking, her claim to fame. She cemented that fame with the number 60,317. That’s the number of comments on her blog.
One of the points she made resounded with [...]
Weblog Tools Collection has a list of the videos and special interviews of the speakers at WordCamp Dallas, including my presentation on WordPress Tips.
Check it out and tell me if I did okay. And be sure and watch everyone else. They did much better.
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I’m rarely totally and completely blown away by anything, and yesterday at WordCamp Dallas, John Pozadzides blew the whole crowd away with his new blog statistics program, Woopra.
John is a blogger, author of the popular One Man’s Blog, and an experienced web user, web company owner and business man. He understands the importance blog statistics [...]
I’m a huge fan of Tony Hung’s Deep Jive Interests and thrilled that he’s opening his blog doors to guest bloggers, hoping to give them the necessary exposure many want.
In a little over two years, Tony turned his blog into a high traffic site with his insightful and challenging thinking and writing. It lead [...]
In combination with Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon 200 , Chris Garrett, BlogCatalog, and Authority Blogger are working together to offer a $2,000 consulting prize package as part of the SOBCon promotion.
The winner will receive a $1,000 budget for attending SOBCON including travel expenses, a copy of “ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your [...]
One of the most wonderful things of being a blogger among wonderful bloggers is our ability to ask other bloggers for help, and their amazing willingness to help - even total strangers. All because we have blogging in common.
When I spent a long month last year writing about WordPress Plugins, I also asked readers [...]
As part of my ongoing series on blog resources, so far I’ve covered Blogging Resources and Sources to Help You Blog, Blog Resources for English Language and Blog Writing, and Blog Resources: Researching the Research, Finding the Facts, and Seeking Supporting Evidence. Today, I’m offering the resources I use for business and professional sources of [...]
I’ve got three blog conferences I’ll be speaking at, and I want to give you 24 good reasons why you should be at each of these.
March 29-30 - WordCamp Dallas
WordCamp Dallas is going to be one of the hottest WordPress-oriented blog events this year. People are flying in from all over the country to [...]
As part of my ongoing series on blog resources, covering the many online resources I use to help me blog, you can tell that I don’t deal with rumors or guesses. I like facts. I don’t mind a few estimates, but I like being right when I make a claim or statement, so I work [...]
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