because motives matter
A good blog is a place readers come because they know what to expect, a place where their needs are respected and their comments are welcome. Here writers create conversations that matter about things they care about. Continue reading In the beginning was the Word
I’m speaking at 2011 Wordcamp Detroit this weekend, a gathering of bloggers using the Wordpress content management system. As a convenience for participants (and you), I’m posting here some links and resources I referred to. Continue reading the cheat sheet
Some students come. Some students go. And some students keep on blogging. Continue reading something to read
“Out of love for the truth, and the desire to bring it to light.” Continue reading what would Martin Luther blog?
The holy grail of blogging is being noticed by someone who has the power to drive traffic to your blog. All bloggers want this but are not actually prepared for. Continue reading how to survive being “freshly pressed”
It’s for those who aren’t sure they know what a post is.
A post is an entry on a blog. But not everyone who reads this is sure what a blog is either. So this post on this blog is for you.
“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest….Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.”
– E.B. White
