SXSW Interactive Monday: Twitter, biz start-ups and ending hunger
Today at SXSW I attended three very different sessions. Here are some of my notes… Twitter Talk with Evan Williams The keynote with Twitter founder Evan Williams was totally packed. I was in the actual exhibit hall but there were overflow rooms with a rebroadcast. It wasn’t a keynote speech at all, but an interview. [...]
Read more »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. [...]
Read more »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 [...]
Read more »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. [...]
Read more »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 [...]
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