Category Archives: General

Are you new to blogging? Read this simple primer.

At some point in the near future I swear I will get back to the intro to cause blogging series. In the meantime, Josh Katherman has a great short and sweet post on Best Blogging Practices.
A couple of points that he makes that I’d like to emphasize:
Give your readers a reason to share. Useful information. [...]

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Be Authentic. Be You.

Being the most authentic you can be when writing for your blog can make all the difference in the world.  This is something I’m still working at.  I tend to re-write and censor too much.  That’s part of me too I guess. I’m a rather private person.  Example: I have Facebook fan pages for all [...]

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Earthquake in Haiti: One Month Later

Today I’m posting a roundup of links related to the Haiti earthquake.  Many bloggers and activists are now focusing on the country will rebuild.  It may not be front and center news anymore, but these efforts will go on for many years to come.  Bloggers can play a big role in helping keep awareness up.
How [...]

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Blog Posts About Haiti Relief from BloggersUnite

BloggersUnite is a periodic event where bloggers all write on one cause based topic.  Today’s topic is relief for the earthquake ravaged country of Haiti.  Bloggers who write on this topic can submit their post to the BloggersUnite website and get a link to their post included in the list.
Here are the two posts that [...]

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My 3 Words for 2010

In the past couple weeks I’ve been doing some serious goal planning for this year.  When I read Kelby Carr’s blog post where she chose 3 Words to represent her goals and vision for this year I thought this was an excellent way to summarize my thoughts.
Here are my 3 words:
One
As I read Kelby’s post [...]

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Blogging hiatus for new mom; cause blogger series continues in 2010

One of the lessons I’ve learned real fast being a new mom is flexibility!  My plans were to have the Introduction to Cause Blogging series finished up by the end of November.
My little guy had plans of his own. Micah Wesley came into this world a couple weeks sooner than expected, arriving at 5:47 AM [...]

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