For those who haven’t read the facts about me, I went to school for rhetorical communications studies. Basically it means my communication focus was more on the words someone chose than the whole of what they were saying. I spent 4 years learning the idiosyncrasies in word choice and what it meant for a person and their speaking persona if they chose a specific word....
I love posts like “The 30+ best posts about _________”. They usually have some awesome content and helps eliminate a lot of time looking for articles. However, it’s kind of frustrating when it’s a list of 30+ different examples, and yet there are only 8 different people who are the authors of the content. Come on, that’s just pathetic! There are so many incredible writers with...
When you go into a bookstore, you know where the book that you want will be based on the signs. Horror, suspense, romance, history, comedy… there’s a section for them all. Even if you don’t know the author of the book you want, you can browse the genre and more than likely find something of interest. However, as hard as you try, you will not...
If you didn’t know, I happen to be a huge Disney fan, and Walt Disney is one of my idols. He was not only the creator of amazing dreams, stories and characters, but he was a man who believed so strongly in childhood and creativity that he created an entire empire around it. I am a firm believer that childhood and creativity are the keys...
We’re often afraid of asking a question if we don’t know the answer…it’s scary to venture into the unknown and even scarier if we don’t know what to do when we get there. But, I am not scared. So I am asking you to tell me: What do you want to learn about content development? And I will, to the best of my ability, answer every question...
I loved today’s post from Chris Brogan regarding to which crowd you are writing. One of the key points he made really hit home, and was a chance for me to really consider to whom I have been writing recently. It strikes me that often times, we’re blogging for our colleagues and not our buyers. When I write a post that gets a lot of...
Writing is never easy – whether it is trying to craft a simple email, a brilliant blog post, or a clever tweet – we are continually working on finding the right words to clarify our thoughts to share them with the world. We put in a lot of effort to make sure that what we write leads to a reward (a reply, a comment, a retweet)....
Because of the topic, the entire post has been hand-written. Click to enlarge and read it the way it was meant to be read. Prefer to read it without the handwriting? It has been transcribed into typing below the images.I am an avid technology user. I love my laptop, phone and computer – especially how quick it is to type content, spellcheck, grammar check and...
Dear 13 year old Kirsten, I want to talk with you about the journals that you keep. You know, the one you write in every night that is hidden under the mattress? And all the full ones you’ve finished that are hidden in the closet? You’re going to be writing in them for the next four years, and will fill up more than 25 journals in...
image courtesy of Kristian D from flickr Writing can be uplifting. It can be daunting. It can be powerful. But, without knowing the person who is reading your writing, it can be disheartening and frustrating. At its core, writing is a personal task, especially when it comes to blogging (if you write B2B and sell doodad’s for computers, just ignore this post, for everyone else, keep...
