Blogging
I love to see friends (and clients) make the news and be successful … Penelope was recently featured in a TV segment about professional blogging here. It’s a pretty neat feeling seeing her book in Barnes & Noble too. (Not to mention her book is packed with some excellent and unconventional career advice.)
I recently discovered FreelanceSwitch … a blog site dedicated to freelancers like myself. The site has two great things going for it … outstanding content … and outstanding design. Just love the distinctive look and the email and feed sub buttons. Powered, of course, by none other than WordPress. Rock on, guys! [BTW, stupid disclaimer:…
Just stumbled onto this new service called Tumblr. The site says: “If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.” Interesting stuff …. I’m going to toy with it.
Chris sent me the Life Cycle of a Blog (aka Diagram of a Blog) from the New York Times Opinion section.
My buddy Brian Gardner (he promised no biting) and I “face off” at Daniel’s Daily Blog Tips. Check it out!
I’ve had the pleasure of chatting online with a blogger named Bob Jones who is using my Web 2.0 WordPress theme on his month-old blog and have just been amazed at his success. Some of his posts made it on Reddit, Digg, among others … and in one month’s time as hit over 600K pageviews!…
Frantic Industries has a post listing the Top 40 Blogs according to their Feedburner reader stats. I’d venture to say … get linked by ANY of them, especially if they’re in your blog topic, and you’re likely to score some HUGE traffic and launch your blog onto a whole new level. On my main blog,…
I’m a big Penelop Trunk fan and reading her post Blogging Essential For a Good Career again made me think about the web design work I’m doing — i.e. custom WordPress themes — and how, as she pointed out in that post, blogging can be leveraged to “get a job.” Speaking from experience, I personally…
I’ve started a new category called “Advice I Give My Clients” and while I might not give everything away through this series of posts … I’m planning on giving some good advice I’ve learned in my blogging experience. So here’s the first in this series … how to increase your blog’s email newsletter and feed…
Here’s a great article on finetuning your WordPress blog into an even higher performing web tool … Also, I wrote a whole series on how to use WordPress as a content management system to run a whole website. [Found via Performancing]