Hey Health Blog Helpers – we've got a special treat for you on this last day of 2009: a guest post from Rachel at Shedding it and Getting it on vlogging! (Vlogging, if that term is new to you, would be video blogging.) Rachel did a totally fun and smart vlog about vlogging and we're…
Category Archives: Creating Content
Don't Let Them Slip Away
Have you ever found yourself away from home or not anywhere near your computer when a great idea strikes? Sometimes awesome ideas for blog posts come to mind when you least expect it. You could be driving home, standing in line or even sitting at your computer writing a post when you suddenly find yourself…
Editing Your Old Blog Posts
When a new reader comes to your blog and likes what they see, they'll probably stick around for a while and take a look at your most recent posts. After they hit up your about page they just might browse your archives to see what you've written in the past. Your regular readers might also…
Finding Your Shtick
I'm in the middle of reading Hugh MacLeod's Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity for the second time. I picked it up because Seth Godin wrote a nice review, and I pretty much do whatever Seth Godin tells me to do. Anyway, the reason I mention this is because the other night I…
Swingin' for the Fences: Writing Content That Spreads
Without a doubt, the biggest difference I see when I compare non-food blogs to food blogs is this: non-food bloggers write less frequent, more thought-out posts, with the hope that they'll go viral. That is, that they'll be linked to, Dugg, tweeted, Stumbled, and anything else that has the potential to bring hundreds or thousands…