Blog Tips

On Blogs Being Dead

Blogs aren’t dead, but the way in which they sit in the web of content is different than it was a mere year ago. The new technological options are just that, and it’s our use of them that we need to be more aware of.

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Check Out Our Website Redesign

After a few years of incubation, Productive Flourishing gets a new design. Check it out!

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Why I Leave Comments Open

Should you allow comments on your blog? I get asked this question a few times a month, but most recently, Kelly Livesay asked it via Twitter and wrote about blog commenting and your community. Every once in a while some influential blogger closes the comments on her blog and it causes a stir, and this [...]

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It’s Time To Show Up Again

I don’t have a whole lot to say today, at least not right now. Actually, that’s not true – I have a whole lot that I want to say, but I haven’t gotten the clarity I need to figure out what I should say, when I should say it, and how I should say it. [...]

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Use The Two-Tab Rule To Stay Focused

How many tabbed windows do you have open right now? Can you remember what all those tabbed windows are about? In the early days of browsers, a perennial and annoying problem was only being able to have one window open at a time. Now, all major browsers give you the capability of opening windows in [...]

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What’s Up With All The Video?

[If you're reading this in email or RSS, you might have to click through to watch the video.] I’ve been producing a lot of videos lately – at least, for me – and I wanted to take a few minutes to explain what’s going on. I recommended Shama Hyder Kabani’s Zen of Social Media Marketing [...]

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What No One’s Telling You About Paid vs Free

At South by Southwest, a bunch of us were chatting about blogging. Charlie said something like I don’t know why Ali’s writing for me for free. And, later on in the week, I had a great discussion with Jonathan Fields about why I feel awkward about pricing my work. I’m still thinking through some things. [...]

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Writing Posts The Easy Way With TextExpander

[If you're reading this in via email or RSS, you'll have to click through to watch the video.] I’m going to say it up front: this is a long screencast, even for me. It weighs in at about 14.5 minutes. The star of this show is TextExpander, but Textmate also wins the prize for best [...]

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The Definitive Guide to Writing Better Blog Posts

I’ve read a lot of books on writing. I’ve also read a lot of ebooks and books on blogging. What I’ve been frustrated about, though, is that there aren’t a lot of books on writing blog posts that approach it from a writer’s perspective. Yes, becoming a better writer helps you write better blog posts. [...]

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