Archive for the ‘blogging’ Category

A place where bloggers are royalty (video)

During my recent trip to France I had a chance to catch up with {grow} community regular and video blogger extraordinaire Michelle Chmielewski, who is now working in Paris. Our […]

The Anatomy of a Blog Post

I frequently receive questions about how I blog. Where do I get the ideas? How long does it take? Where do I come up with the graphics? The process I […]

Why I blog (nearly live and in-person)

This is my first video blog. I hate it. But we all need to push ourselves and experiment, right? This is WAY out of my comfort zone. I intended to […]

Want to “go viral?” Think again!

Seems like everybody wants to produce content that goes viral. Speaking from experience, you should be careful about what you wish for! Last week I followed with tradition and posted […]

A podcast on blog community philosophy

I had the pleasure of being Trey Pennington’s guest on his Marketing Professor Radio Show last week. I didn’t know where the conversation would lead but I spent nearly the […]

On Twitter, even casual interactions can deliver business benefits

This week, I’m featuring personal case studies to demonstrate how the social web can provide tremendous business benefits … often when you least expect it! Today’s example started when I tweeted “Go Steelers!” … […]

The ultimate guide to blogging when you don’t have time to blog

This is a blog post for anybody who has trouble finding the time to blog. In other words, everybody. I humbly submit a few practical ideas to help you become […]

It worked for Zappos. It probably won’t work for you.

Zappos* is a successful company with a well-publicized, aggressive employee use of social media. In fact, it may be the most famous social media model in all of blogdom. They have 13 blogs, […]

Ten ideas for the beginning blogger

If you look around the web, there is so much advice about blogging it’s not funny. Still, I’ve learned a few lessons that might help if you’re a beginner blogger and I […]