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How To Create Content For Your Blog Every Day

March 4th, 2010 · View Comments · Social Media

In this short video I explain how to create content and to remove the barriers that stop most people from creating content on a daily basis. It’s not difficult but you do need to have a system that lets you maximize your opportunities to create content and reduces the barriers that stop you from [...]

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Subscribe to any Posterous Blog via Email

February 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · Social Media

You can now subscribe to any blog on Posterous by email. They’ve updated its autopost tool so that your friends on Facebook and Twitter can stay updated with your blog as well as friends that are not on these networks but want to stay connected. FYI: You can also publish blog posts to Posterous [...]

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Technical Writing News – Nov 20th

November 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Adobe RoboHelp, Content Management, Dita, Doc 2 Help, Google, MadCap Flare, News, Social Media, Technical Writing

Meet Captain Jing, eat Alphabetti Spaghetti, create lists in Robohelp, move technical writers to network thinking, LaTeX (not that type!), Why I Wasn’t Sold on Single Sourcing, The Moment I Felt Like an Executive, Does Your Company Need a Dedicated Tweeter? and how much does Darren Rowse earn from Blogging. What [...]

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How do you Manage Extremely Negative Comments on your Blog?

November 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Technical Writing, Tips, Wordpress

I need your advice. Someone has left a fairly negative comment on my blog. What should I do? Approve or Delete?

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How to write Link Bait for Digg, Reddit & StumbleUpon

November 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Wordpress

Want to be on the very first page of Digg.com? You’d be famous, right? Here’s how to do it.

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Chris Brogan: If You Intend To Blog Seriously

October 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Social Media

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Chris Brogan writes: Blogs are not traditional media, and bloggers are not journalists. Unless they are. But it’s not a requirement.
A blog is software. It’s something one puts up on the web to capture information, of whatever type one wants to put on there, and thus, if anyone tells you that you’re doing [...]

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How to Blog Almost Every Day – Use the Inverted Pyramid story format

October 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Productivity

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Do you want to update your blog every day?
Chris Brogan provides this framework for writing a blog post (almost) every day. He adds that while it’s not easy, once you develop the right habits, they stick with you. I’m writing quite regularly now, but it took me several years to get [...]

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Wordpress Twitter Tool – How to change ‘New Blog Post:’ when new posts are tweeted?

October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Social Media, Wordpress

Twitter Tools lets you integrates your blog with Twitter, so that every time you publish an article, it is automatically sent to Twitter. Even better, it can setup a daily and weekly blog post listing all the tweets you sent. One small thing is that the default setting for the blog posts is “New Blog [...]

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How much do freelance writers charge for writing posts?

June 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing, Tips, Word 2007

How much do freelance writers charge for writing posts? Now that our little site is doing well, freelance writers are approaching us and offering their services. I thought I’d offer this to give you all an idea of the rates per post and per article we’re being quoted. By the way, the writer you sent this was very professional, had a great portfolio and recommendations from satisfied clients.

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