Tuesday, April 30, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises for April

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "April seemed to fly by in this Blog Exercises series. Have you been able to keep up now that we are done with month four of improving your blog? A lot of the blog exercises this month deal with interactivity and links, tips for building a community wit"

[New post] Blog Exercises: The IKEA Effect for Bloggers

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "The Ikea Effect was coined by researchers who found out what we all know but rarely admit, we put too much ownership into our own brainchild ideas and concepts. In other words, we tend to fall in love with our own ideas and creations. If you have ev"

Monday, April 29, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: How to Link to Comments

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "Do you have brilliantly intelligent and thoughtful commenters? I do. I often find something someone's left in a post comment worth writing a blog post about and quoting. In this Blog Exercise we'll look at how to link to comments on your site and how "

Friday, April 26, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: Stand Up For Freedom of Speech

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993 to 7. They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. "All of you words over here,"

Thursday, April 25, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: The Search for Like Minds

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "I tat. My 95 year old grandmother-in-law taught me almost 20 years ago. Tatting is 17th century lace making based upon island and coastal women looking for something to do besides fixing fishing nets for the men of the village. They got creative with thei"

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: Battling Self-Doubt

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "Self-doubt happens to everyone, even bloggers. You are blogging away, full of inspiration, motivation, and energy, then wham! Something happens in your personal or professional life or you get hit upside the head by some bloggy or social media incident an"

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: What Are Your Reasons For Blogging

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "We all have our reasons for blogging. Having our say, sharing our experience, teaching, learning, creative outlet, money, reputation, because they told you to...all of these are good reasons to blog, but to keep blogging you need something more. In thi"

Monday, April 22, 2013

[New post] The Brute-Force Password Attack on WordPress Sites

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "My mother emailed me and asked if WordPress was under attack. With all the news of last week's attack of the Boston Marathon, the attacks on WordPress and other PHP-based web publishing sites was low on the priority list for myself and others, but this is"