Links: Writing for your audience
Writing content that will be appreciated by your audience is one of the make-or-break aspects of blogging. Here are several posts from other bloggers with great ideas for defining and appealing to your audience: Three Ways to Define Your Target Audience A lesson in deciding who your audience is before you start blogging from Kivi [...]
Read more »How do I set up a blog? – Part 5 in Introduction to Cause Blogging
This post is part 5 of the Introduction to Cause Blogging Series. Last time I talked about setting goals and how to get both short and long term results with blogging. Today I’ll cover some of the technical details of setting up a blog using the WordPress platform. I think WordPress is the easiest to [...]
Read more »Supporting a family on a minimum wage job?
Minimum wage jobs are great for high school and college students. Not for adults trying to support themselves and other family members. For a single person under the age of 65, the poverty threshold is an annual income of $10,836. In the state of California, a person who works full-time at a minimum wage job [...]
Read more »Top 5 Blog Pet Peeves
I read a lot of blogs. To be a blogger, to be a writer, you also need to be an avid reader. Or at least a headline reader or skimmer! As a reader of blogs there are a few things that I find really annoying. Posted by “admin” – who is this famous admin person? [...]
Read more »Post Conference Catch-Up
Why is it that even when I bring my laptop, when I get home from a conference my email box is still overflowing? And I was only gone 2 days! SXSW was definitely worth the trip. Someday I’d like to stay for the music festival. Just missed Jakob Dylan live, but managed to listen via [...]
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