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I blog a lot about the importance of audience. Now I’d like to understand my own audience a bit better. NOTE: This is a long and winding post, and you may be in a hurry. If so, let me ask you for a quick favor: my whole reason for writing this post is to better [...]
Continue reading about An Open Letter to My Audience: What Do YOU Need From Me?
Lately, I’ve been ranting (again) about social media’s need to improve. This usually happens every 6 months or so, and then I get distracted by paying work and holidays, only to return and find that nothing much has changed. So this time, instead of shaking my fists at the sun, I thought I’d explain 5 [...]
Continue reading about 5 Unorthodox Ways to Fix Social Media
Lately, I’ve been arguing against the perpetual “us vs. them” method of storytelling because I think it’s ruining our ability (and desire) to understand each other. Opposing groups have always been quick to condemn “the other,” but the degree to (and zest with) which we do it these days borders on alarming. A few days [...]
Continue reading about We’re All Trolls: 11 Ways We Can Stop Being So Damn Divisive!
As I (and several others) have pointed out recently, there’s been a slow death of discourse in blogs. Most commenters either agree with the author openly, disagree vehemently, or use the opportunity as a chance to pose their own pet theories (as a ploy to drive traffic to their own blogs). What’s often missing is [...]
Ego, Cynicism and Bad Reviews: What I Learned by Peeking at My Bounce Rates
Last week, I shared what I learned by blogging weekly instead of daily. Judging by the high volume of traffic, retweets and comments that post generated, people are very interested in what makes someone else’s blog tick. One comment that caught my eye was from Virginia Nussey, who said: I shared your findings with my [...]
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