Why I’m resurrecting the ‘link journalism’ argument
June 25, 2008
(hat tip to Chris Brogan for mentioning this issue (and the Scott Karp post) on his AWESOME blog!)
About two years ago, before I lost everything to the ‘oh dear lord’ crash of 2006, I had a tonne of articles talking about a disturbing trend in the blogging/journalistic communities - and that was ‘link love’/'link journalism’.
Time management 101
May 25, 2008
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After reviewing eeeeverything that I get up to - and getting my first year results back from University, I decided to let go of a lot of projects. At the same time, I started looking over what I really wanted to accomplish. Several years ago when I came online, I had high hopes - and for the last two years, I realised most of them. I just don’t want to be trying to keep one step ahead of other IM marketers - and ultimately, being an IM marketer, that’s what I would need to do.
Are you drifting?
May 9, 2008
Image from FlickrOne of the goals I’ve made myself for this year is that I take care of my small procrastination ‘issue’ once and for all. But before I do, I was wondering who else was ‘drifting’.
If enough of us are, I could always drag everyone else along for the hell of it 
Comment or email y’know the drill…
One of the main time management problems most people find themselves in is either overcommitting or ineffective planning or the other dreaded p word. Procrastination.
Article writing for traffic - part 2
May 8, 2008
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The previous article - All it takes is one article…
See also - Rewrite your PLR!
The pen collection grows
May 8, 2008
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I’ve been collecting pens for as long as I can remember. I’d hoard them up under my bed, on my bookcase, and all available surfaces - and I’d cry when I lost them. Later, when I met my other half, he started buying me collectable pens (yes, there is such a thing) and I discovered that I really and truly covetted fountain pens and ‘pretty’ pens.
I’ll take a photo of some of my favorites in the next couple of days (I need to find them all first!), but I’m curious - do YOU like pens?
Are they because they are representative of being a writer? A symbol of some kind for you?
All it takes is one article…
May 7, 2008
Though, if it only takes one article, and you can adapt this project into your own pattern, why stop at one?
What you’ll need:
An article writing system - whether you use (and REWRITE PLR), or write your own article from scratch.
A list of places that accept your articles, press releases, blog posts, and ten (no more, no less) absolute favorite bookmarking sites (I recommend Digg, Deli.cio.us, StumbledUpon and seven others ;)). As an optional extra, research some ezines in your niche, and get contact information for THEM, and grab a copy of Audiacity - for podcasting. If you choose to do this last step, you’ll need to build a little bit more than an article ;).
Copywriting ‘in the black’
April 12, 2008
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One of the biggest issues I’ve faced in recent months is explaining the lay basics of both copywriting and grant writing to one of my clients. Both are incredibly complex processes, if you don’t have the right ‘mindset’ for it, and more importantly, if done wrong, can cripple your business.
A plugin that’s not a plugin?
April 2, 2008
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Normally, I save my ‘tech’ talk for other blogs - but I thought this warranted sharing.
I don’t know who recommended it to me, but I’ve found this really awesome plugin called ‘Zemanta‘ It installs into your browser, and is a tool that ’suggests’ images and articles to you as you’re writing posts.
It might not sound like much, but I’ve spent the last three weeks trying to work out how to add images and make sure I’m pcoviding decent links to people. And Zemanta is a great step towards that.
The blogger code of conduct?
March 20, 2008
Via Steve Hodson
I saw this last year and didn’t say anything, because, at the time, I was still trying to work out where I *stood* in the blogging community…. The long and short of it is I’m not an A-lister, so I felt that I had to get closer to being ‘that’ before I started advising other people.
It now occurs to me that advising people on blogging is what I do as naturally as breathing, and though I’m tweaking my blogs to clean up the messages I’m offering. I’m ‘branding’ each blog to be a lot clearer if you will.
Buckling down
March 15, 2008
Butt in seat – or laptop on knee – or - pen and paper in hand are three of the most important traits any writer can learn. Once you’ve fed your muse, you gotta find a schedule of work – that schedule of work needs to be daily.
Not weekly, not ‘when you can be bothered’ – daily.
Writing daily is an art in and of itself. I was once told that once you got into a routine for 21 days, you would always do it, but that doesn’t work for me. I can ‘force’ myself to write and work, but I don’t like it. I still do it though.