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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 (4)

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: Sex Changes and Age Matters

March 27, 2013 – 4:19 am

I often get comments that say “Thank you, sir” or emails through my contact forms addressed to Mr. Lorelle. In France, “Lorelle” is a last name as popular as Johnson in English countries. I understand that “Lorelle” is a tough name to identify with a sex. Not the point. I live online in a world […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: age, age identity, blog exercises, sex, sexual identify, sexuality | Comments (3)

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. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blog title, Blogging Tips, code, html, html title, html title tag, post title, seo, site title, tags, title tag, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (10)

Blog Exercises: Taking a Risk With What You Blog About

February 1, 2013 – 4:26 am

In 2006, I spent three months thrashing, not sleeping at night, agonizing over what I had written and desired to publish. I knew it would be received with resistance at the least, revenge at the worst. I had already tested the waters and found out that the subject could get me in very hot water […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blogging dangers, Blogging Tips, content theft, copyright, copyright violation, defend yourself, fear, hacks, intimidation, jonathan bailey, plagiarism, risk, risky blogging, victim, web writing, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (19)

DuckDuckGo: The Search Engine You Need to Meet

September 19, 2012 – 11:18 am

Recently, DuckDuckGo has been turning up in my referrers list. Curious about the name, and thinking it was a spam site, DuckDuckGo needed investigation. Seems I’ve been missing out on what could be the major competition to Google as a search engine. Here is a quick summary of what I learned about DuckDuckGo. It is […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging News, Web Browsers, Web Wise | Tags: analytics, anonymous, browser add-on, browser plugin, browsers, dnt, do not track, duckduckgo, filter bubble, google, google search, legal, mobile apps, pagerank, policies, privacy, privacy statement, privacy violation, search directory, search engine, security, seo, serp, tracking, web analytics, web browsers | Comments (9)

201 WordPress Books

April 26, 2012 – 12:01 pm

As part of my project to bring WordPress into colleges nationally, I did a quick survey of how many books have been published about WordPress. I was asked by several major publishers to publish the first book in English on WordPress but had to decline due to my traveling schedule and work load, so it’s […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Tips | Tags: books, books about wordpress, books on wordpress, how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress advice, wordpress books, wordpress codex, wordpress design, wordpress development, wordpress help, WordPress Plugins, wordpress techniques, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress writing | Comments (23)

Prove It: Kym Huynh Exposed

January 16, 2012 – 1:08 pm

After reading Prove It: It’s Starts With Defining Who You Are as part of my Prove It Campaign, one of my best friends volunteered himself for a bio tearing and ripping as he is now involved in several startups that are gaining the attention of investors, which means everything he does online is now subject […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, Web Wise, Writing | Tags: about, about page, australia, bio, biography, experience, family, history, kym, Kym Huynh, life, native tongue, proof, prove, prove it, welcome page, weteachme, who are you, writing your about page, writing your biography | Comments (9)

Managing Multiple Authors: Managing Writers in a Multiple Author Blog

August 18, 2011 – 4:31 pm

In this series on managing multiple bloggers in WordPress, I want to now focus on the content, specifically managing the editorial voice and purpose of a site with multiple bloggers. There is a huge caveat to this topic. Every blog is unique, as are all the voices within it. It is often that uniqueness that […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog contributors, blog management, blog writing, bloggers, Blogging Tips, contributors, editor, guest bloggers, managing a blog, managing multiple authors, managing multiple bloggers, multiple bloggers, multiple bloggers blog, multiple contributors, multiple contributors blog, Web Design, Webvisions, webvisions2011, wordpress advice, wordpress development, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress research, WordPress site development, WordPress Theme designs, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips with tags blog authors, Writing, wv11, wv2011 | Comments (14)

The Most Powerful Life Changing Conference Event, SOBCon, Comes to the Pacific Northwest

August 8, 2011 – 5:58 pm

I’ve been tortured the past few weeks on how to convince you that attending SOBConNW 2011 on September 16-18, 2011, will change your life. As usual, when it comes to my favorite annual conference, I find myself wordless. It’s that profound. If the SOBConNW Program and descriptions at the SOBCon site doesn’t convince you, maybe […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging News, Blogging Tips | Comments (3)

Security and Protection: Understand the Social in a Crime Network and How to Protect Yourself

June 15, 2011 – 4:16 pm

While the following is a bit off-topic, my head is spinning with all the layers and networks I’ve uncovered within this recent experience. A friend of mine called this a combination assembly line meets Wikipedia of crime social networks. It begins with my car being broken into and my purse stolen a few months ago, […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Wise | Comments (12)

Taking Your Blog Off Topic

April 30, 2011 – 2:13 pm

What happens when you take your blog off track and publish an off topic post? Do you ever take that risk? When you do, why do you do it and what’s the benefits or harm? In a two part series, Sam H, Editor of Football United, shared his insights on working with “hundreds of football […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog writing, Blogging Tips, how to blog, off topic blogging, web publishing, writing tips | Comments (12)

Lorelle Interviews WordPress Rock Star Andrew Nacin at WordCamp Developers

April 29, 2011 – 10:33 am

The secret is now out. I’m putting on the gloves and taking on Andrew Nacin at WordCamp Developers in Vancouver, BC, on May 5, 2011. As described in the announcement on the WordCamp Developers site, I’m going to put Andrew Nacin, the new rock star of core WordPress development through a ringer to let the […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordCamps, WordPress Events, WordPress News | Tags: andrew nacin, vancouver, wcdev, wordcamp, wordcamp developer, wordpress, wordpress development | Comments (7)

How You Can Give Back for WordPress Birthday Month

April 26, 2011 – 2:09 pm

As many of you know, one of the things that has long been near and dear to my heart is the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. I’m so pleased to be part of the drive in May to get everyone to contribute to the Codex and to celebrate the 8th birthday of […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordCamps, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress Tips | Comments (8)

SOBCon 2011: Successful Online Business Conference – The Must Be There Conference

April 11, 2011 – 12:30 pm

I say this every year, and thank goodness a few people listen and change their lives. Here goes one more time: If you do anything this year to change your business, go to Successful Online Business Conference (SOBCon). This year we’re celebrating the fifth year of SOBCon, the life changing business event for bloggers, web […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, Blogging, Blogging News | Tags: chicago, conference, event, sobcon, social media, successful online business | Comments (3)

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