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Blogging Challenge: Travel Blog – Adventure in Your Back Yard

August 30, 2006 – 9:57 pm

Your Blogging Challenge this week is to take a high adventure. To fill up water bottles, and pack your backpack full of film, digital cards, batteries, note pads, pens and pencils, snacks, digital recorders, and your camera, and head off into the wilds of your back yard. That’s right. You are off on a travel […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: advice, blog, Blog Challenge, blog exercises, blog writing, blogger, blogging, blogging advice, blogging help, blogging lessons, Blogging Tips, help, how to blog, lessons, tips, web writing, Writing | Comments (13)

Blog Exercises: Prepare for Summer

May 17, 2013 – 4:04 am

It’s Editorial Calender check-in and check up time. May is the shift from spring to summer. From blossoming flowers to green leafed trees casting shade, the weather is changing, bringing warmer days to the northern hemisphere and colder temperatures down under. For those of us living in the Pacific Northwestern United States, we are experiencing […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blog writing, Blogging Tips, content, content management, content organization, content strategies, content structure, editorial calendar, how to blog, how to write, organization, planning, schedule, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (4)

Blog Exercises: Dissecting Post Categories

May 13, 2013 – 4:17 am

In a recent article, Noah Weiss shared his struggle to figure out categories and tags on his personal site. I know many of you following these Blog Exercises have also struggled to figure out your categories, so I thought Noah’s site would be a perfect example, He has gratefully given me permission to rip his […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips | Tags: blog categories, categories, categories and tags, categorization, content, content management, content organization, navigation, post categories, site organization, structure, tags, web writing, what do you blog about, wordpress, Writing | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises for April

April 30, 2013 – 4:40 pm

April seemed to fly by in this Blog Exercises series. Have you been able to keep up now that we are done with month four of improving your blog? A lot of the blog exercises this month deal with interactivity and links, tips for building a community with your site. One of my favorite exercises […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, Blogging Tips, month, monthly summary, summary | Leave a Comment

Blog Exercises: The Royal We

April 17, 2013 – 4:14 am

People who refer to themselves as “yours truly.” What kind of grandiose crap is this? Some even speak of themselves in the third person. Athletes and entertainers are big on this demented shit: “I’m going to do what’s right for Leon Spinks!” I think people like this are mentally ill. And you can include those […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, comments, inclusive, interaction, interactivity, pronoun, royal we, social web, voice, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises for March

March 29, 2013 – 4:06 am

March was a busy month in my Blog Exercises series. Wow, are we already done with the third month in this year long series? The participants explored a wide variety of blog exercises on editing, blogger identity, content organization, and web writing. There were exercises to motivate and inspire you, and help you inspire your […]

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Blog Exercises: Check Your Site Title Tag

March 14, 2013 – 4:40 am

Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is required to have the <title> tag in the <head> of the source code HTML structure. […]

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Blog Exercises: The Editorial Calendar

January 14, 2013 – 4:13 am

Throughout these Blog Exercises you will be building your own editorial calendar, a schedule for content. Consider these as blog planners and self-deadlines. There are many calendar types, traditional and electronic. I recommend starting simple by printing out a 12-18 month calendar, one month per page, right from a free template in your word processing […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises | Tags: activities, blog exercise, blog exercises, blog planner, blog planning, Blogging Tips, content, editorial calendar, events, exercise, holidays, months, planner, planning, schedule, web publishing, web writing, weeks, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (24)

Happy Holidays and Onward!

January 8, 2013 – 9:16 pm

We survived the Mayan Calendar. We’ve survived planets lining up. We’ve survived attacks on our person, our community, our faith, and our country. Just another year. As we charge forward this coming year, here are some things to look forward to here on Lorelle on WordPress and on my other sites, and many things to […]

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Welcome to the New Blog Exercises

January 3, 2013 – 5:37 pm

Your doctor tells you to exercise. You tell yourself you need some exercise. You play Sudoku and other mind games to flex the brain. We all need exercise, even bloggers. In the past, my Blog Challenges have been well received but its time to update them. I used to call them challenges, then prompts, but […]

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Banned, Blocked, and Censored Bloggers

October 4, 2012 – 2:25 pm

According to the American Library Association, September 30 through October 6, 2012, is a salute to Banned Books week. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together […]

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Tips for Blogging September 11 Ten Years Later

September 9, 2011 – 10:45 pm

Over the past few weeks I’ve listened, read, watched, and pondered a quilt of stories around the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, as the world celebrates/honors/remembers the event 10 years later. There are first hand stories of those who were in the buildings, rescuing people or escaping; stories by watchers, waiters, victims, […]

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Have You Lost the Human Element in Your Blog?

December 2, 2009 – 1:46 pm

As I catch up with all the backlog of my life and work after a solid month on the road, I’m still stoked by my amazing time spent with Alan Dean Foster. While preparing for my meeting, I found a fascinating quote by Alan Dean Foster in an interview with Science Fiction and Fantasy News. […]

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WordCamp Toronto Raising the Bar This Weekend

May 7, 2009 – 1:50 pm

Of all the WordCamp events to track, WordCamp Toronto this weekend, May 8-10, 2009, has been one of the most product and prolific. The Schedule is three very packed days of events, speakers, and…everything. Starting at 8AM on Friday and closing Sunday afternoon with an awards ceremony, it’s going to be a packed weekend event […]

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The Art of the Fan-Based Blog: Community Wins

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 […]