A.S.K. - Liz Strauss - How Do You Inspire Your Readers To Join Your Community

Building our blog communities is accomplished in our comment section.
Last week Liz Strauss, author Successful And Outstanding Bloggers and “The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog (the book), answered the question, “How To Format A Blog Post To Maximize Comments”.
As we all know, part of receiving comments is answering them. Our readers [...]

Four Day Open Mic - 8/21 to 8/24/08

The The 4-Hour Workweek( book) and the four day work week are both popular ideas. Based on the concept of “four”, I’ll be experimenting with the “Four Day Open Mic”.
The concept for the “Four Day Open Mic” (proposed) series is this: For the next four days the comment section (of this post) will be open [...]

A.S.K. - Liz Strauss - How To Format A Blog Post To Maximize Comments

Welcome to my new series. A.S.K. (Answers Sharing Knowledge.)
Based on the success of the interview series with Lorelle (of Lorelle On WordPress), my blog, like many others, is experiencing a slight transformation.
In my attempt to continue to help bloggers, I’ll be adding more interviews in the form of “answers”. I will contact experts [...]

What Does That Have To Do With Anything

Remember when Lance and his blog “Jungle of Life”, were featured as New Blog Of The Week? In the comments, Chris of Wat da Wat, paid Lance and I a very nice compliment. He wrote:
Nice pick Barbara…You know that Lance’s style of writing is similar to yours? You and he write with precise [...]

It’s Not Your Fault I Can’t Spell

I’ll be the first to admit I make typos. Whether it’s in my blog posts or in a comment on another site, I type too fast, misspell words and before I double check for typos, hit “submit”. My spelling mistakes are out there for everyone to see.
Sure, I can hope the [...]

« go back — keep looking »