Storytelling
My Top 10 Most-Read Posts of 2017
From story problems in Blade Runner to the great irony of The Walking Dead, here are my top 10 blog posts that attracted the most readers in 2017.
Social Media
7 Blog Traffic-Boosting Lessons
After not actively blogging for several years, here’s what I learned (and remembered) while doubling the blog traffic increase for two different websites.
Social Media
What I’ve Learned From Blogging Weekly Instead of Daily
A few months ago, I decided to try an experiment with this blog. From May through July, instead of posting daily, I would only post once per week. That way, rather than scrambling to say something relevant 5 times a week, I could invest my time in one good, solid Read more…
Social Media
What I Learned by Reading Everything
Last week, Ian M. Rountree and I started Read It All Week, a challenge to read everything we were subscribed to — especially all the blogs we so easily subscribe to, but never actually absorb. We did this for two reasons: To reconsider why we subscribe to certain kinds of Read more…
Armchair Sociology
3 Myths About Social Media Debunked
On Sunday nights, Mack Collier runs a Twitter-based group chat called #blogchat, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about blogging while hobnobbing with their peers. But, based on the defensive reaction to some of my comments from several of the #blogchat participants, I’ve realized that Read more…
Social Media
Talk Less, Do More
I’ve been thinking. Most “serious” bloggers blog daily, because a daily blog is a heartbeat. It lets the people who follow you know that you’re still alive, still thinking, still contributing to the greater good. But what, exactly, are you contributing? If I Don’t Blog, I Don’t Exist Most daily Read more…
Social Media
5 Good Reasons to Blog Every Day… and 5 Good Reasons Not To
I prefer to blog 5 times a week. It keeps me connected to the fishbowl in a way that blogging intermittently would not. And since a combination of travel, weather and the holidays have derailed my normal blogging schedule these past few weeks, I’ve learned a few first-hand lessons about Read more…
Freelance Tips
How to Build the Audience You Want (or, There’s Nothing Wrong with Redheads)
Lately, I’ve become aware that the audience I most easily attract isn’t necessarily the audience I’m writing for. Not that I don’t appreciate every blog reader or Twitter follower who considers me worthy of their time. But what I want and what I’m attracting may be different things. In my Read more…