This is too good a resource not to link to. Wendy Piersall runs the site eMoms at Home. It’s a great site/blog for stay-at-home entrepreneur moms, but there’s plenty for those of us who don’t fit that bill. Her comparison guide on blogging platforms is one such example. Take a look here. Wendy’s reviewed 7 […]

Driving to work this morning I was listening to the radio. The radio announcer said that the police have yet to identify the shooter in yesterday’s attack at Dawson College in Montreal but reports are out there identifying him. I missed the name they said on the radio, but I did catch this part (and […]

Blogging is about having a voice. It’s about being heard. And it works. You might want to praise someone. You might want to complain. Do it reasonably and without sounding like a raving lunatic and you just may get a response. You should get a response because companies and people should be listening to what […]

I’m a big fan of link leaking and its mates, the link leak virus and link love. Given the choice I’ll take link love over the others, only because it sounds…nicer. But if you want to cough on me and spread your link leak virus, by all means. With that in mind, I’ve put up […]

During the most recent open mic session at Successful Blog I was asking the participants about some problems I’m having with Technorati. In the midst of that, Joe at Working at Home on the Internet suggested I try the WordPress plugin yes-www. The plugin redirects all non “www” requests to “www” — so if you […]

Hopefully many of you are coming from the IGotNewsForYou blog where I’ve been posting since January 2006. I decided to take the plunge and move the blog to WordPress. As well, the blog didn’t fit with what I want to do at IGotNewsForYou and I wanted to branch out into further discussions, new projects, etc. […]

Blogging is great, but it ain’t perfect. One of its biggest downfalls is that most blog posts have a short shelf life. Blogging demands that we update content regularly…which means something you’ve written just a few short days ago has already disappeared, pushed away by newer content. True, a blog post never really disappears. It’s […]

When IGotNewsForYou’s blog launched in January, 2006 I went ahead and looked for every blog and feed directory I could find. I submitted it to a ton of them, using MasterNewMedia’s list, but there’s so many it became difficult to track where the blog got listed, and if any updates ever had to be done […]

During Tuesday’s open mic night at Successful Blog I got into a brief discussion with Christine Kane about creativity, blogging and BIC (Butt-in-Chair). It made me think about something CHOM – a Montreal classic rock radio station – does, which is to play full album sides without interruption. When they do it, they say say […]

Running a contest for your website, blog, e-newsletter, etc. can be a great way to: * Increase awareness/buzz of your site/blog/etc. * Increase readership. * Network. The first two are obvious – a contest can help generate traffic, subscriptions, etc. And hopefully that increased awareness/buzz/readership helps you in other ways as well (increased business, new […]