Guest Post: Cloud Computing

  There are so many things I need to learn that even my What I Want to Learn list takes a sideroad. That’s what happened when I wrote my Cloud Computing post It’s how I ended up with the following guest post Being the smart person I am, I jumped at...

A Plugin By Any Other Name is Not the Same

You read about the latest, great plugin and rush to add it to your site. But, did you add the right one? Sounds simple, right? After all, you have the plugin name What you find is the name might as well be John Smith (or Cathy Miller) for all the like-named plugins....

Consumer Survey Shows Email-Newsletters Number 1

For those who think email marketing is dying, you might want to check out Zoomerang’s consumer survey. The 2011 survey, Marketing in a Digital World, reports over half (52 percent) of the consumer respondents rated Email/Newsletters as the the number one source...

30 Business Blog Post Ideas From One Quote

Do you have a favorite quote? Perhaps it’s one that inspires Or one from a favorite writer Or one you heard growing up If you are looking for business blog post ideas, start with that favorite quote. The possibilities are endless. Let me show you how. Ideas From...

Top 3 Symptoms Your Business Blog Reeks

Lousy business blogs are an equal opportunity offender. Any size company can have a case of blogitis If you are phoning in your business blog, hang up on that practice The first step in the cure is diagnosing the disease by identifying common symptoms. Symptom #1...

Posts 1-What I Want to Learn Video 0

  In case you are wondering about the status of the posts on my What I Want to Learn list, there are four topics down and three to go. I planned a video update. It would have been my first in front of the camera. After my writer friend, Sharon Hurley Hall,...

Cloud Computing: 3 Questions to Ask Before Taking Off

It’s interesting the detours you take when researching What I Want to Learn. One of the items on my list was learning more about the various note-taking software. I started with Evernote, a free cloud computing program. Cloud computing connects data we input on...

Does Your Business Writing Embrace the Imagination?

Business writing often gets a bad rap. It’s boring It’s forgettable It’s painful If your business writing fits one or all of those descriptions, you need to ask yourself, Why? Perhaps – You lack the passion for your business The person doing your...

Jumping on Quora Bandwagon? Think Twice

You may have seen Quora discussed in a few places. Someone’s Top 10 lists for increasing your online visibility A tweet touting a great Quora question – or answer Articles raving about the new start-up (launched in June 2010) Some early reviews may have...

3 Hot Topic Screw-ups And How to Avoid Them

If you ever want to get the comments flying, select a hot topic. Health care reform Grammar, typing or spelling miscues Facebook changes I admit I touched on all of these topics at one time or another Even though I have a health care blog and 30+ years in the...