Tomorrow, April 23, 2009, I’m the keynote at Real Estate BarCamp, in Portland, Oregon, at Cubespace. The event is free but sold out. If you are interested in attending, check first.
I’ll be speaking to Real Estate agents, brokers, and related industry members about blogging, social, media, WordPress, and Woopra – though not all at [...]
I’m working on a series of articles about personal blogging, but I wanted to share with you a perfect example of a personal blog. It’s by my cousin, Duke DesRochers.
You may remember Duke from the story I did on him called, “Future Social Media Renaissance Man,” on Lorelle on WordPress or the one on the [...]
In October of 2008, I started a series called “Exploring Social Media” on the Blog Herald. The challenge was to dig into the myriad choices and options to dance the social dance online, to network, share, inform, and educate with the various tools available.
I began by asking people to define social media, since it [...]
January 27, 2009 – 5:56 pm
Before and after WordCamp Whistler 2009 in Whistler, BC, Canada, I took advantage of the good graces and lovely home of Glenda Watson Hyatt of Do It Myself Blog (@GlendaWH) and her husband, Darrell Hyatt of Enabling Abilities to Appear in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Spending time with Glenda and Darrell is filled with laughter and [...]
January 21, 2009 – 4:45 am
Part of my joy in being an advocate for WordPress is showcasing how WordPress is used around the world. In a fascinating discussion with Darren Hoyt, Interviews with Church Designers looks at web design and WordPress blogs from a unique perspective: Christian churches, specifically American Christian churches.
Like me, Darren admits he didn’t understand the market [...]
December 29, 2008 – 4:27 am
By DB Ferguson of the No Fact Zone
Now, if you’ve been following my series on The Art of the Fan-Based Blog, you’ve got a blog, you’ve got readers, you’ve got content. Have I forgotten anything? Oh, yeah. Burnout and how to keep fighting the good fight for your celebrity, readers, and fellow fans.
Here are some [...]
December 27, 2008 – 4:14 am
By DB Ferguson of the No Fact Zone
If you’re building a fandom blog to create a cash revenue stream, you’re better off getting a second job or setting up an Etsy account. Money can be made, but that should not be a priority for you when it comes to being a fandom blogger.
As part of [...]
December 23, 2008 – 7:46 pm
Snowbound outside of Portland, Oregon, I welcomed a change of pace with an interview with Justin Smith of Searching Solutions in “Podcast Interview: Lorelle VanFossen – WordPress and Blogging Expert.”
Justin and I talked about some WordPress history, where WordPress has been and where I think it is going. Want a peak into the hottest [...]
December 23, 2008 – 4:07 am
By DB Ferguson of the No Fact Zone
Another treasure trove of knowledge from my series on The Art of the Fan-Based Blog that can help you to be a successful fan blogger is to reach out to your peers, fandom webmasters. You’ve build the community, now it’s time to make those connections pay off.
Common Interests [...]
December 22, 2008 – 4:58 am
By DB Ferguson of the No Fact Zone
Anyone who has ever spent time in any fandom for any length of time realizes that there are two inevitability types of fans. The first is that there are always going to be fans who take their enthusiasm about the celebrity or hobby to an unacceptable extreme. The [...]
December 20, 2008 – 5:45 am
By Amir Helzer of ICanLocalize
With your help beginning in the first post on how to build a tourist community website with WordPress, I’ve been so honored by your collaboration and help to improve my community’s new tourist site, Baripedia, representing my town, Bariloche in Argentina.
With your guidance, you helped me determine which WordPress version [...]
December 20, 2008 – 5:41 am
By DB Ferguson of the No Fact Zone
I can promise you, your site won’t be much fun at all unless you start building a community of loyal readers to interact through comments and help enrich the blogging experience for all of your readers, not just yourself. A huge part of the fandom site experience is [...]
December 19, 2008 – 5:02 am
By Amir Helzer of ICanLocalize
In Building a Tourist Community Website With WordPress: Content Rules, I described how our new tourist community website, Baripedia, has made the decision to hire a writing professional to rewrite and edit all the content on our site to make it professional, web-friendly, SEO-friendly, and easy to read. My decisions have [...]
December 18, 2008 – 4:37 am
By DB Ferguson of the No Fact Zone
I know I just recommended aggregating news stories from sources outside of your blog in my series on The Art of the Fan-Based Blog, and that search engines were your friend. They are. However, I cannot stress this enough, be extremely mindful of every single word or picture [...]
