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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I blog in English and it behooves me to get it write - okay, at least once in a while. The challenges I face as a writer are not just generating ideas but finding the write way to convey those ideas.
I frequently need to check the spelling or definition of words I come up [...]
It’s been a hell of a day. I’m sure you’ve had them. When every other word out of your mouth should have started with F or S but didn’t because you “grinned and bared it” for the grace of others.
Okay, let’s be honest, you didn’t grin, you bit the bullet.
We all have these [...]
It was late and I needed to repeat the use of an image I uploaded a year ago to the Blog Herald. I know WordPress is working on a new image uploader and multimedia management interface, but it can’t come soon enough for me. Clicking through only a few groups of the hundreds of images [...]
Over the past year, National Public Radio’s blog and radio series called “My Cancer” has been an amazing portraly of life living, and dying, with cancer. Called NPR: My Cancer, it is frank and open, discussing the daily aspect of life with cancer.
A lot of times, I sit at my computer, trying to figure out [...]
Again, I am honored by my dear friend, Edrei Zahari of Footsteps in the Mirror, who continues to take on my blog challenge asking what you have learned this year. He wrote about what he learned in 2006 and continues the tradition with What Have You Learnt In 2007?.
I think it’s a brilliant idea to [...]
I travel. A lot. As I type this, I’ve just flown back from Israel, over 24 hours on planes disconnected from my computer and the Internet and my life after two weeks in one of my favorite places, where every day brought new meetings, interviews, explaining blogging, talking WordPress, meeting old friends, making new friends, [...]
It is my copyright policy to not permit literal translation of my content into another language without permission. And in general, I rarely give permission.
Whoa! Does this sound like it goes against Lorelle’s policy of open, transparent, fair, and equal communication and breaking down the language barriers? Nope. It is within my policies.
Translation is an [...]
Eaton Web offers “How to Become a More Passionate Blogger” and makes a very important point:
Passionate bloggers have advantages over non-passionate bloggers including attracting a higher quality and more supportive readership.
So, how do you become a more passionate blogger?
First of all, enjoy your niche. Blog about something you love. If you don’t like to travel, [...]
Ian of Letters from Home asked me about my article series on the Blog Herald about conspiracy theories and blogs, wondering why I was doing such a series:
…what’s the point of this series on conspiracy theories? Why encourage people to muddy the waters further? Is it all in the name of generating hits, traffic and [...]
One of my heroes, Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today, whom I’ve written much about and love his work on the Blog Herald, has simplified the issue of content theft into two brilliant and understandable articles.
5 Content Theft Myths and Why They Are False deals with the myths that often keep us from responding and reporting [...]
It happens to everyone, including bloggers. You work and work, filled with enthusiasm, eager to embrace each day. Then something happens.
For a blogger, it’s little things. A mistake found in a post months after publishing. You are embarrassed but no big deal. Then someone says something a bit sarcastic towards you, and not your post, [...]
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