For my first client who has decided to start blogging:

A great article on establishing the voice of a blog here.

More on what a blog is here.

Blogging ideas and establishing yourself as the go-to person in your market here.

Enjoy and good luck!

This is such a great post with beautiful pictures and spot-on attributes from Darren Rowse of the ProBlogger.net website. I have to share! I love this quote and it’s truly the reason I’m a maven:

“What sets Mavens apart, though, is not so much what they know but how they pass it along. The fact that Mavens want to help, for no other reason than because they like to help, turns out to be an awfully effective way of getting someone’s attention.” Malcolm Gladwell (Tipping Point).

Written on May 20th, 2008 at 05:05 am by Darren Rowse: Read more »

         

This month’s traffic waned significantly from last month. I’ve found it goes in cycles but this is the longest I’ve gone since I’ve started I think, not consistently blogging.

A number of reasons are the culprits, including most recently the beautiful spring weather that beckons me to be outside, cleaning my yard, walking my dog, gazing at the flowers sprouting up around my well. Read more »

My favorite blogger, marketer and the “father of permission marketing” suggests in a post on his blog yesterday, “ I think if you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all.” Read more »

I came across a couple of articles on blogging that I found helpful and I thought that they may be insightful to any of you that are considering or just starting to blog.

The Bloggin’ Expert - Become the Go-To-Guy or Gal in Your Market By Alice Seba - I get her newsletter and it’s fantastic.

31 Quick Blogging Ideas By Lynette Chandler Read more »

It being a storm day today, my sons and I were running out of things to do by the end of the night. We had even pulled out the new cookbook from Christmas titled “Deceptively Delicious” and had pita pizzas. Right in front of the boys I managed to steam cauliflower and red pepper but only managed to discreetly add the red pepper pulp after I chopped ‘er up. They were delicious with left-over salsa chicken, basil pesto, one with tomato sauce and grated cheese.

So we decided to build my son Caden a website. Read more »

Seth Godin throws out a challenge to see who is using the “new politics”.

My 64 year old dad is. Sandy Kerr lives in rural Prince Edward Island - Canada’s smallest province - and has gained national attention (Blog dogs P.E.I. government on doctor promise) after I set him up with a blog and gave him the domain name HealthPEI.com for his issue with over 5000 Islanders not having access to a family doctor. The shortage of doctors on Prince Edward Island and the state of health care on PEI is nothing short of a crisis. Read more »

You have to love this guy. Lots of people love to hate him. Perez Hilton, the gossip gangsta. I would love the traffic he gets to his blog. He charges thousands of dollars A DAY Read more »

Jeez, to be honest I didn’t think I’d be writing so much about blogs. Alas, more and more people are asking me about them. My client, Mary Ann, was surprised to hear that there are “rules” of blogging.

I remember when a co-worker explained Read more »

The next obvious question after you made the first step of creating a blog is “How do people find my blog?” Such is the question posed to me by my father today after we got his blog up and going. In his case he is going to: Read more »