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How to Write For Expert Readers

This is Part 3 of the “How to Blog Like Shakespeare” series. Check out the other parts: How to Write for New Readers (at Ittybiz) How to Write for Regular Readers (at Remarkable Communication) How to Write for Expert Readers How to Write for Three Audiences At The Same Time (at Copyblogger) I’ll be straight [...]

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The Blog Gets A Tune-Up!

I’ve been doing a lot of behind the scenes work here and I’d like to let you know about them. My aim was to make the site more usable, accessible, and clear – this blog has nearly 1,000 pages worth of content and I wanted to help with the overwhelm/frustration of not knowing where to [...]

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Becoming Yourself and Growing Your Blog

Did you recently start a blog and feel like you have no idea what you’re doing? Do you feel like your blog will always suck and you’re never going to get any readers? Or do you just feel lost and want to give up? Here’s a secret: your favorite bloggers felt the same way when [...]

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Bringing Conversations (Back?) to Blogging

I could have written this post as a more standard blog post with a catchy stand-alone intro, but it’s worth not doing that in this case. This post is about how we’re missing out on the conversational aspect of blogging, and part of the reason we’re missing out is precisely because we’re too worried with [...]

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Idea Nodes, Opportunity Chains, and Hypernetworking

The true nature of connectedness is about the quality of connections and not the quantity of connections. Though a lot of us know this on some level, we really don’t understand it. Perhaps we can’t really understand it due to the complexity of connections. Hyperconnectivity comes from the type of communication and interactions people exhibit [...]

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What’s the Point of Twitter?

What’s the point of Twitter? Who would spend time updating what they’re doing and what’s the point of doing it? Those were the first questions I asked myself when I looked into Twitter. I asked myself those questions because, honestly, that was what the marketers of Twitter used on their landing page. It’s a horrible [...]

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How to Make a Most Popular Post Widget in WordPress

I’ve been looking around for different plugins or widgets that created a Most Popular Posts space on my blog. I spent some time looking and never found anything that seemed about right. But I wanted to get that space up on my blog so that I could point new readers to posts that other readers [...]

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