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 [...]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress Events, WordPress Tips, Writing
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February 11, 2009 – 8:22 pm
In an ongoing attempt to break the rules on how a blog works, Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers turned yesterday into an open comment day on her blog with some of the world’s top bloggers and social media experts.
Each hour from 11AM Central Time until the end of the day, a blog post [...]
February 5, 2009 – 5:46 pm
This week’s Blog Herald WordPress News is WordPress News: Release Week News, WordPress 2.7.1, BuddyPress, WordPress MU, and More Releases, and I’ve covered a lot of WordPress news you can use:
It’s Release Week. WordPress 2.7.1 Beta 1 released for testing. WordPressMU updated. BuddyPress Beta 2 released. WP Scanner beta released. WordPress.com releases January stats. Akismet [...]
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 [...]
January 17, 2009 – 7:34 pm
The thirteenth blog post published on Lorelle on WordPress was Designing a WordPress Theme – Building a Post Sandbox. This post continues to be useful to WordPress Theme developers and testers, so I’ve updated it and included an easier-to-use sandbox post text file.
When designing, testing, or tweaking a WordPress Theme, you need to pay attention [...]
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 [...]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging Tips
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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 [...]
November 25, 2008 – 9:11 am
By DB Ferguson of the No Fact Zone
Are you ready to plunge into your own fandom blog? Then it’s time you started thinking more like a webmaster than a fan.
A fan is all agog with the thrills and spills of their star, but hosting a fandom blog means making a plan and sticking with it. [...]
October 26, 2008 – 2:46 pm
I’ve been in Hawaii for Hawaii Geek Week studying social the Aloha way, including a day long session in the Social Media Club Hawaii Workshop, and am confused as many of you about this the new “social” on the web and what it really means.
I woke up this morning with part of the definition [...]
October 13, 2008 – 4:02 am
Roxanne Darling, the organizer of Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii, October 24, 2008, is encouraging everyone to help make this Podcamp and WordCamp a success and supporting their sponsors by blogging about them.
While you should blog about them and support sponsors of WordCamp and WordPress Events, there is a bigger benefit to being a WordCamp sponsor. [...]
September 10, 2008 – 5:56 am
Last year at WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco, I got a chance to meet up with my long time online buddy and WordPress guru, Andy Skelton. Living on the road myself, I was thrilled when Andy announced he was riding his motorcycle to WordCamp – but not from Texas to San Francisco. He road from [...]
Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers is giving you a chance to promote your blog to the world in her Showcase Your Blog at Successful-Blog July 26-27, 2008.
This is a great chance to showcase your blog to thousands of bloggers and fans on the blog by the founder of the popular Successful and Outstanding [...]
I spent the past few days in Las Vegas for the Layered Tech LTPact 2008 Conference, an event sponsored by Layered Tech, the second largest web hosting and reseller in the world, among WordPress luminaries and experts and a lot of server geeks and serious online business folks.
I got a chance to spend time [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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