It’s nothing privy, I just have a thing for words; and because today is National Literature Day (it’s not), I’ve filled this post with some word-relevant odds-and-ends. They’re designed to facilitate creativity, alleviate writer’s block, and inspire.
• A kettle of hawks, an army of frogs, a destruction of cats— supposedly all collective nouns . Those ones, they check out. But a vomit of goblins? A cuckpowder of bullfinches? Really? No thanks Wikipedia, I’ll pass.
• Do you ever find yourself yammering away on the phone, flying 85mph along the interstate? If someone sends you a text message while you’re driving, do you attempt to peck a response? All of that is bad—very, very bad. The same applies to using a computer for the purpose of writing something creative. There are so many distractions—MySpace, e-mail, anything Google, blogs, YouTube, Quake 3—that using your standard word-processor has the same potential ...
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You Must Adopt a Social Media StrategyFrom: thatagency.com
Post Date: 2008-03-03 10:23:17
Do you remember that old campy saying, Go big, or go home ? Of course you do. It’s usually tossed around when the last few seconds are waning away from the clock and the score is tied. "It’s either go, big or go home," someone will say. Well, that same logic applies to Web 2.0. You either go all out to make it work or it’s not worth doing.
The successful social media campaign is similar to raising a lion cub. If you don’t put forth the time and finesse, it w...
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Post Date: 2008-02-28 09:57:41
You found your niche and words are beginning to coagulate into sentences and, hopefully, sentences into paragraphs. But crossing your fingers and wishing really, really, really hard won’t bring people to your blog. You have to be willing to put forth an extra effort to cultivate a following. Doing otherwise is like fishing without bait or being the world’s second fastest man—neither guarantee that anyone will take notice.
In this two-part installment, I provide a nightcap t...
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Post Date: 2008-02-26 11:01:58
In my last blog, I proposed a manifesto. They were a set of values that I felt every writer should conscientiously exercise, as to produce effective content. But what good is content without direction? In this blog, I slip on my kids’ gloves and guide you to authority-status of a niche.
In hindsight, I suppose I went about this series all wrong. To the neophyte blogger, I apologize; I took you under my direction and just sort of dropped you in the middle of a forest without your c...
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