November 21, 2009 – 10:35 am
As I prepare for my meeting with Alan Dean Foster, one of the world’s most prolific and famous science fiction authors, I’m not the only one inspired by the whole concept of making dreams come true.
Robyn Seaton introduced Alan Dean Foster to me after she and I met at WordCamp Phoenix, and PodCamp Arizona [...]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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I just published “Glenda Watson Hyatt: Is Your Blog Disabled?” on the Blog Herald. I summarized the outstanding presentation the famous Left Thumb Blogger, Glenda Watson Hyatt of the Do It Myself Blog, gave at Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) this past weekend.
Glenda is a major fan and proponent of WordPress, and I [...]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging News, WordPress News
| Tags: accessibility, blog event, blogger, disabilities, disability, disabled, glenda watson hyatt, left thumb blogger, sobcon, sobcon09, speaker, web standards, wordpress |
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 27, 2008 – 11:31 am
Part of the magic of blogging is the ability to reach out across the distance and touch a heart. That’s also part of the magic of the Internet in general. It allows us to connect with strangers across the planet and find like-minds.
The first year WordPress.com featured the snow fall effect, WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg, [...]
December 16, 2008 – 4:01 am
At a blog conference recently, I overheard the following exchange over a laptop as part of a blog review exercise:
“For your blog to be successful, you need more comments on your blog posts.”
“I have plenty of comments on my blog. See, this one has 14 comments.”
“That post has only one comment. The rest are trackbacks. [...]
November 10, 2008 – 6:00 pm
How often have you been asked for “two seconds of your time” in purpose, email, or chat? I’m asked every day for those precious two seconds, and every day I struggle to say no.
My day begins at five in the morning. I used to make time for exercise but more and more my work life [...]
October 3, 2008 – 4:50 am
Every once in a while, Lifehack tackles writing tips and tricks. Recently, two great articles caught my eye.
Just Keep Writing! motivates you to just keep writing, inspired with quotes from famous writers on what they believed kept them writing. If you feel the writing spirit waning with your blog, these are some great motivational tips.
If [...]
September 4, 2008 – 3:28 am
With all the negative campaigning and nasty spin by the media wrapped up in election campaigns and conventions, it surprised me to find a connection between a politician commenting on negative campaigns and my continued defense of bloggers attacking other bloggers and going negative. I thought it worth talking about in my ongoing series on [...]
Dr. Johnson’s Cat asks “So: Why Blog?”, a question that plagues many bloggers, wanna be bloggers, and wish-they-weren’t bloggers. Why do we keep on blogging when the fun drains away. And what keeps bringing us back.
Googling the phrase “stop blogging” gets 171,000 hits: Ten Reasons Why I Should Stop Blogging; Should I Stop Blogging? 20 [...]
One of my long time favorite authors, Peter McWilliams, has most of his books online for free. These include:
LIFE 101: Everything We Wished We Had Learned About Life in School-But Didn’t
DO IT! Let’s Get Off Our Buts
How to Survive the Loss of a Love
You Can’t Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
LOVE 101: To Love [...]
Little squares, boxes, lines, and funky symbols are often found in blog comments. A friend new to blogging called me about these wanting to know if her blog had been hacked or her computer had a virus. “It looks like alien writing from Star Trek!”
Those strange symbols and characters in your blog comments are [...]
Hackers are just determined. There are no new security flaws reported recently in WordPress, but that hasn’t stopped imaginative and determined hackers.
The recent security issues concern hackers who work with Google and other search engine results and redirects traffic from your blog or website. The searchers clicks on the link and is redirected to the [...]
As I struggled to determine my blog’s focus, I debated like many about the definition of “narrow”. After all, how narrow is narrow in your niche?
After years of personal debate on this issue, I came up with this answer:
Your blog focus is too narrow when you run out of things to write about.
We often start [...]
Blogging Bits offers “A Beginner’s Teeny Weeny Guide to Blogging”, a simple step-by-step resource list of articles from around the blogosphere covering a variety of blog tips and techniques. The list includes:
Setup
Promotion
Monetization
Miscellaneous good practices
The comments include other recommendations that are worth tracking, too.
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