I‘m on a bit of a blogging roll these days, and I found this great infographic a few weeks back from Melonie Dodaro, and pinned it. I’ve been sharing lots of infographics lately–and why not? They’re visual, they’re smart, and […]
Exciting news!! I’m starting a new series on Monetizing Your Blog! Check in at the end of this post for details. I missed Leeann Froese and Eschelle Westwood’s (Mumfection.com) presentation at Northern Voice a couple of weeks back (because I had […]
Here’s my social media philosophy: make it stupid easy. If you want people to respond positively to your calls to action, you need to make it easy for them to do so. Click To Tweet By that I mean, if […]
A couple months back, I was trying to decide what I should pitch to the Northern Voice organizing committee for a workshop this year. I’ve been a presenter at NV since 2010 (note the orange “Bloggable” shirt from that year), and it’s […]
Last monday night, I joined a big crowd of fellow WordPress enthusiasts at The Elephant and Castle in downtown Vancouver to celebrate WordPress’ 10th Anniversary. It was the local chapter of an international celebration. I’ve been using WordPress for almost […]
A couple weeks ago, I got an email from Amber over at Vancouver Mom, letting me know that someone (Susan??) had nominated me as one of the top mom bloggers in Vancouver. I thought there might be some confusion, because […]
I taught a workshop yesterday to a group of young actors on WordPress. They were eager to learn how to create their own websites, but the workshop was only 2.5 hours, so I got to show them the basics, but […]
Last week, Google stunned the blogging community by announcing that it is discontinuing Google Reader as of July 1. Now, Google’s done this before. Remember Wave? or Buzz? Maybe not, because, well, they just didn’t do all that well. Reader, […]
So, I got this email yesterday. It’s not strange. I get these emails all the time, probably at least one a day. There are tons of folks out there who are trying to build up their SEO by back-linking, and […]
Over the next couple of days, I’ll be writing a series of posts aimed at small business owners as I lead up to the launch of my new book, Getting Started with Social Media for Small Businesses on Friday, February […]