Thursday, October 31, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: A Link List Post to Dazzle Readers

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "In blog exercises on making lists and making your lists pretty, we worked on the links, understanding how they work and formatting your styles. In this blog exercise, I want to focus on the content within those links, the real reason people love those"

[New post] Blog Exercises: Push Your Writing Forward

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "Blogging is about writing. Let's not forget that. And now is the time to test your writing skills. The Tomorrow Project by The Society for Science and the Public is promoting contest for a science fiction story about the kind of future you want to "

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: Are You Serving First-Time or Return Visitors?

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "Every time I visit Feedly, Dropbox, and many other sites I think "They don't like me." Why? Why should something so important to so many, a tool that should be on most computers, make me feel this way. Look at their login screen. Giant button "

[New post] Blog Exercises: Trending

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "In social media, trending are topics attracting the attention of most of the people in that moment. Unfortunately, trending topics are self-feeding. If something ends up top of the trending list, it becomes an accident alongside the highway. Everyone want"

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: Blogging Loss and Grief

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "Loss is a part of life. This year, I've lost friends, family, and pets, and some days the sadness permeates everything. Other days, we laugh and smile. As with all things, in time, the balance between sunshine and dark shifts the scale towards sunshine. "

[New post] Blog Exercises: Priorities

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "A friend's son was working on a school project when I asked him a question. "Not now, Lorelle. I don't have the bandwidth." Unfortunately, I've had to use it over the past month too many times. Consider this an apology for letting this site lapse "