Blogging

How to Use Social Media Sanely

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tara Sophia Mohr from Wise Living. We—the bloggers, blog readers, twitterers, people who spend a lot of time on social media—are growing up. Our relationship with social media is maturing. In the beginning, we just played around and drank it all up. But more and more of [...]

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How to Swim Through A Sea Of Social Troubles Without Drowning

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache [...]

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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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All Systems Are A Go…Again

You may have noticed some strange behavior on the blog for the last day or so and I wanted to let you know that we’ve been going through a migration from MediaTemple to Storm on Demand. I moved from MediaTemple because the Grid Service wasn’t able to keep up with the heavy resource demands. While [...]

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Behind The Scenes: The Talk With George Edition

It’s about the time where many people will start sharing their annual reviews, and I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently for other projects I’m working on. The review I’ll share today isn’t really an annual review as much as it is a shared reflection on the fact that I’ve been a rogue idea [...]

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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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Just In Case I Get Crazy With Reviews…

Last night it occurred to me that I’ve been holding out on you, and doing so has been a disservice to all of us. I’ve had a brainwedgie around what to do about reviews for quite some time now, I used to do them regularly but I just stopped because I went through a heavy [...]

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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties with RSS

My posts are somehow showing up multiple times in both RSS and Email subscriptions. I appreciate the people who’ve written to let me know of this, and I have verified that it is consistent, systematic, and annoying as hell. Right now I have no idea why this is happening, but I’m working on it. I [...]

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PF Becomes Print-Friendly

Just in time for Earth Day!: I worked behind the scenes today to fix my CSS so that this site is  more print-friendly. Yes, rather than write in a way that’s more web-friendly, I decided that it would be easier to make this blog more print-friendly. So, if you’ve been itching to read the “Rebirth” [...]

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