1. Write more often. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but the more you write (tweet, facebook updates, emails, blog notes) the easier it will be to sit down and write. 2. Read a lot of other writers. Everyone has a different style of writing, and while you need to develop your own, reading someone else can help you to find your own voice. 3. Get a...
Last month, I tested your creativity. David MacGregor stepped up to the challenge with fervor, and created a fabulous idea. Because of the response, I wanted to create another challenge for the month of May. Your image for May:(image courtesy of D Sharon Pruitt) And here are the questions you have to answer:What product would you use this image for What would the tagline be for the product Where...
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Powerful name, powerful idea, even more powerful messages inside. About 2 weeks ago, I mentioned that I would be reading Groundswell. I am slowly working my way through the book and wanted to share some thoughts on a section that caught my attention. On page 44 of Groundswell (for those of you who have the book),...
The OC Register has asked me to become a semi-weekly columnist, talking about, well, myself! The posts will cover everything from trying to take over the world as a freelancer, to buying my first home with my husband and everything in between. The posts will go up Monday and Wednesday online and will be in print on Thursdays. The column is entitled “Kirsten’s Chronicles” and...
Last week, I had a proposal for a new website design turned down. Unfortunately, it was because of the size of my portfolio. Since I have only been doing freelance work for a few months, my portfolio is rather limited. It doesn’t mean my talent is, it just means that I have not had enough clients to really show off my talents. Frustrating? Yes. Surprised?...
2 weeks ago (wow, does time go by fast, I thought it was just last week), I wrote about how we can change #followfriday to make it more beneficial for everyone involved. My idea had been to only recommend one or two people each followfriday and include a little reason why. Not only does it make it easier for people do decide whether to follow them,...
Me and Suzanne(emphasisisallmine.com) Last night, I attended the first blogcrush meetup at the Veggie Grill in the Irvine Spectrum. First, the food was a huge shock. For those of you who have never heard of it/been there, it is a Vegan restaurant. I am not a vegan, far from it, in fact I wouldn’t survive if I could never have meat again. But, their food was...
It’s the final day of the problogger challenge. Whew! No more writing after this right? Wrong. That’s why his final task is entitled the next steps for your blog. Now is when I have to make sure that I maintain stamina and keep posting as often as I have been, and with the quality (or better) that I have been. I have tried to maintain a...
With only 2 days left of the Problogger challenge, it is time to analyze the traffic to my blog. If you have never looked at analysis statistics and want to know what to look for, he gives you 17 different metrics to look at. Analysis of my stats is one of the reasons I love wordpress – there are great plugins that make it so much...
We are getting to the end of the problogger challenge, and as such, it was finally time for him to cover social media organization. The concern has always been where to spend your time and what to do while on those sites. Today’s challenge is to develop a plan to boost your blog’s readership through the social media channels, without spending all your time on...
