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There’s been much written about what makes a good blog community. Some of the smartest and best bloggers around have all shared their views, and they all make great points. So I’m not going to talk about that today. Instead, I’d like to offer some ideas on how you can best engage your blog community [...]
Charming. Not as in prince, as in the town. Charming is the fictional home to a community of outlaw bikers known as The Sons of Anarchy. Sons of Anarchy is the highest rated show on FX, it’s cult in it’s niche and has been renewed for it’s 4th season which starts in September 2011. By [...]
Has your kid ever dissed you? You know, talked back, had that certain ‘tone’ in their voice, gotten a little sassy? Children can be contrary. The longer we do this parenting thing, the better we get at coping. Some of us even learned how to defuse an angry child with the tools of psychology that [...]
I confess. I am a random creative, about as right-brained as you can get. In high school, I aced the verbal section of the SAT’s. But man, I hated the math and science questions. You know, the ones like: Tom is taller than Max. Max is shorter than James. James is shorter than Don. What [...]
My blogging self turned three years old last month. I’m past the pains of teething, past the ‘terrible 2′s,’ with the nonstop questions (although, come to think of it, I’m still asking ‘why?’ questions a lot.) Blogging is so much a part of me that I forget that other people might not be even remotely [...]
When I was a first grade teacher, the end of summer always made me reflective (actually, it still does). If there was going to be change, it was going to happen in the sun-drenched days of September. Like the first day of school. The intoxicating smell of new. Scents of wool sweaters with prices barely [...]
I love it when I pull up an email that says, “jeremy@curtainsRus.com has unsubscribed from CatsEyeWriter Blog.” It kind of makes me smile. I wasn’t always this way. I used to obsess over every single unsubscribe. Why would anyone ever stop reading my blog? How dare they? After all, I’m fascinating. I educate, engage and [...]
Regular readers of my personal blog will have noticed the introduction of the Livefyre comment system. While I’ve written in the past about my reasons to go back to the WordPress comments system, I saw Livefyre in use on a couple of blogs I enjoy and was intrigued enough to check the system out. While [...]
My 15 Minutes of Not Existing: Do Your Blog’s Readers Feel Invisible?
Andy Warhol said that everyone gets 15 minutes of fame in their lifetime. It might be true of invisibility, too. I know. I was invisible for 15 minutes. Never happened before that, hasn’t happened since. All I can say is that it was a surreal experience. Several years ago my husband Bob and I walked [...]