If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I originally wrote this post for Vancity Buzz. Since I wrote it, Instagram issued an update–a really good one. In the past, I’d often use […]
It probably goes without saying that choosing a title for your blog post is incredibly important. The blog post title, and often the first few lines of your post, help to grab the reader’s attention and hook them in. It’s […]
I love my iPhone. I really, really do. I’ve been an iPhone user for about 4 years, now, and I just recently upgraded to the 5s. For my money, the iPhone has a ton of benefits that make it better […]
I met Jordan Garn a couple weeks back at Social Media Day in Maple Ridge, where we were both presenting on a panel about using social media for community and non-profit organizations. Non-profit orgs need social media almost more than […]
Images in blog posts are incredibly important. First of all, they add visual interest and help to draw in the eye and break up the text. Secondly, they make your blog “pinnable,” which could be a huge source of traffic […]
This thing called life is so strange sometimes. When I look back over the last year or so, at what has happened…. it’s all pretty goshdarn amazing. I’ve been a blogger for nigh on 7 years, now. I wrote my […]
Okay. So, we’ve looked at methods of optimizing your entire blog, we’ve looked at keywords, and linking. Today, we’re going to explore ways you can SEO-optimize your blog posts. In order to SEO-optimize each blog post, you’ll want to choose […]
There are some kinds of businesses that loan themselves better to social media than others. Businesses that are highly visual, for example, like artists, photographers, chefs, restaurants and retail stores (clothing, accessories, etc) all work really well on social media. […]
I met Mitchell Fawcett of Motive Communications earlier this year when he asked if he could use my class to test out a new presentation he had to give at a conference. He did a great job, and I learned […]
One of the things that Google ranks websites on is linking. Linking in, linking out, and linking within. Basically, Google loves link juice. This is great news for us as bloggers, as linking is a big part of probably every […]