Blogging

A prospective client recently asked me about transitioning from a Blogger-hosted blog to a WordPress one … Here’s the number one reason I think all serious bloggers should transition from Blogger to a WordPress blog, hosted on your own custom domain name: OWNERSHIP, FLEXIBILITY AND CONTROL Ok, so that’s three … but since I think…

If you’ve been using WordPress for long, you know that if you try to simply copy and paste something from Microsoft Word into WordPress, you’ll get a big mess … your theme (aka template) will get messed up … if you’ve used colors or different fonts in the Word document, you’ll see all shades of…

This post started out as The Best Sites on Blogging, but turned into listing all my favorite blog reads. They aren’t listed in order or anything. So here goes: Problogger – Darren sets the bar for class — and content — in the blogosophere Copyblogger – How to write great content Daily Blog Tips –…

One of my clients – Yahoo! Columnist Penelope Trunk – recently featured me in her regular Coachology post section. As part of the post, I offered to help redesign the blog of one of her readers … The winner was Sheryl Sisk Schelin of The Inspired Solo. Sheryl, who is an attorney, seeks to offer…

I’ve been reading Chris Anderson’s excellent book The Long Tail. (Yes, I know, I’m arriving late to this party!) There are so many implications to what I’m doing online with The Long Tail. But the immediate one that occurred to me was the Long Tail of Blogging. Here’s my personal experience with this … On…