Blogger Andrew G. Carson, The Housebound Writer has published an informative and engaging article on the subject of why we get writer’s block and how to cure it. Andrew’s article was inspired by Neurologist Alice W Flaherty, who argued in her book The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block And The Creative Brain,… [Read more…]
July 31, 2010
My new blogger friend Juliana has had a very eventful life and has been in recovery for many years. She’s always positive and tries to add value to the world by being courteous, sincere, and by paying it forward. Juliana has a new blog on her own domain and she has asked what the implications… [Read more…]
July 13, 2010
The most effective way of promoting a blog within the WordPress.com community is to seek out other blogs in the same niche and form blog centered relationships with bloggers who share the same blogging interests. Forming blog centered relationships is a natural consequence of posting meaningful comments on posts in the blog you locate. There… [Read more…]
July 5, 2010
The most effective way of promoting a blog within the WordPress.COM community is to seek out other blogs in the same niche as our own blog and post meaningful comments to posts in them. However, those who have blogs with legal adult content have far fewer opportunities to locate blogs within the same niche, and promote their blogs within the WordPress.COM community than bloggers with blogs in other niches do.
June 4, 2010
Is your blog a failure or a success? This question stopped me dead in my tracks. When I started blogging, I definitely had a purpose in mind, but it was a limited one with a narrow audience. As time went on, I found myself slipping over the boundaries of my topic. Taking time to roll the above question around in my head made me see how I was driving on a dead end street. I might see a few people on the way, but it would hardly be a major hop around the planet. These insights gave me the impetus to revisit blogging basics and rejig the entire vision of my blog. In my case, starting over was a wise decision. I didn't lose momentum at all.
May 29, 2010
When I first began blogging I didn't think much about what my readers impressions of my theme choices would be in advance of making them. I wasn't very clear about who my audience was. Since then I have been able to determine the demographics for my blog and that knowledge has influenced the theme choices I have made. This article is Part 3 of a three-part series of articles for helping WordPress.com bloggers take a step by step approach to changing themes. Parts 1 and 2 are focused on creating a mirror blog and testing features and functions on possible theme choices. This article is focused on determining reader preferences prior to making a theme switch. I have made the switch from Vigilance to Inuit Types and I hope my readers think I made a good choice. Now it's time for your feedback and for sharing your own theme change stories.
May 22, 2010
WordPress.com does not support an "email a friend" feature at this time. However, the good news is there's a simple workaround that takes only minutes, and can be used to create a text link or a linked email icon image for placement on your posts, so readers can use it to email your post to their friends.
May 21, 2010
This article is Part 2 of a three-part series of articles for helping WordPress.com bloggers take a step by step approach behind the scenes to test new themes in a mirror blog before making a theme switch. Improving how content is framed in a theme is the motivation for change and listing the reasons you have for wanting to change to a new theme is a good starting point. Which features provided by the theme you currently use are must haves in the new theme? Which features that aren't included in your current theme are must have in the new theme?
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