Don’t Be An Ass

Donkey Face

The great thing about dreaming up, starting, and cultivating a blog is the community that inevitably forms around you. We talk a lot on For Bloggers, By Bloggers about getting and retaining a community of readers and commenters and they are very important to the life of a blog. Their comments can help increase your SEO [...]

What Comics Can Teach You About Story Structure

Comic Punch

Originally this post was entitled “Blogging and Fuzzy-Wuzzy Bunnies” as a reply to the outpouring of comments about last week’s post, but then I thought more about it and scrapped my notes completely. I still stand by the post and love the discussions it started and there’s so much more we have to talk about, [...]

Tweet First, Blog Later

tweet first

The reason I say so is because they should eliminate the mindset that “you can get a Gazillion traffic off Twitter“. Sure, you can get traffic from Twitter but it requires you to engage with your followers first before you spam the hell out of them with links to your blog or website. I had [...]

The Gift of Giving

Giving

This time of year is all about giving:  giving to the unfortunate, giving to each other, giving of yourself.  It’s a time that we can simultaneously evaluate what we have done with our past 12 months and also use that knowledge to decide where the next 12 will take us. This year I feel that [...]