Very soon after I started blogging, I started using a blog editor to power up my blogging (and prevent the “aiiigghhh I lost my connection and my post!!!!” which was very common at conferences, still is actually). In those days I was using Qumana for the most part, which makes sense since I was a part of the company and helping guide the growth of the app.
For its time, Qumana was a fantastic blogging app. It was almost perfect (I was always pushing for more and better refinement), but Qumana [...]
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Wow times have changed. Once the world’s third largest blog network, b5media is certainly on a deathwatch now with today’s shuttering of the entire Entertainment Channel to launch Crushable.com—B5media To Launch New Celebrity Site Wednesday, Bathed In Fired Blogger Blood, Mass Firings At b5media: Entire Entertainment Network Shut, The end of b5media—and it isn’t the concentration of bloggers into a super channel that is the problem, it’s that b5 has lost vision and credibility in social media.
I worked at b5 as a blogger, channel editor, and then the training manager. [...]
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If you get to the point where you think you know enough to stop learning, then you’re too stupid to know that you’re finished. That might be crass, but over the past year with a book and a half under my belt I’ve figured out that I have a ton left to learn in this world.
Every time I thought, “Yeah I have a good handle on this, but I’m just going to double-check something…” found out that I didn’t have a good handle on it and I learned far more [...]
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I’ve been lukewarm on the whole Olympics thing for a while. I’m not a huge fan of large crowds or sports, so the idea of the whole world descending on my fair city wasn’t very appealing. Then in the fall, while I was finishing Create Your Own Blog, I took on writing Using WordPress, which I would need to finish in early March (ssshhh, yes I know it’s a month away) so I had an even better reason to stay in my home-office hidey hole for the duration of the [...]
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Getting fired for blogging doesn’t get as much attention as it did in 2004-2005. Back then, the media was a buzz about people getting fired because they were blogging, when, in truth, very few people were actually fired for blogging. Oh yes, some people were fired for blogging, that much is true. I’m sure many of the cases had little to do with the blogging parts as it did with something else going on. However the “fired for blogging” thing did do one good thing, it forced companies to realize [...]
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When I’m helping people first start blogging, one of the first objections (fears, concerns) is that no one will be interested in what they have to say. In nearly six years of blogging I have yet to find someone start a blog that didn’t have some kind of audience.
Think about it this way, no matter what your topic, issue, hobby, whatever is there has got to be at least one other person (and most likely more) in the world who shares your feelings/experience/passion. The world is a huge place and [...]
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This morning I had the wonderful privilege to be on Donna Maria’s awesome Indie Business Radio show and when we got to talking about podcasting I said that it was about time I wrote an updated Podcasting 101 post and thus…
I started podcasting about a year after I started blogging. My “Walk About Podcasts” were pretty good, considering I didn’t edit and I had no clue about recording or cleaning up audio files, but hey that was then…
Today I use a Blue Snowball USB-microphone with Apple’s GarageBand (and I actually [...]
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I’m going to tell you something that us “experts” don’t want you to know. Ready?
Blogging is dead.
Wha? Blogging is dead? Didn’t you just write a book on creating your own blog? Yeah I did, but let’s get this straight—blogging is writing and a blog is just a website that makes it really easy to do that. When I took on writing the book that would become Create Your Own Blog, I have to admit I was a little reluctant at first. Not because I didn’t think I could do it [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
The Changing Face of Reader Engagement–I Want to Hear from You
by Tris Hussey on February 9, 2010 · 7 comments
in Blogging, Blogging 101, Social Media
To really understand this post you need to understand a few things about me:
I pour over my webstats to learn more about who my readers are, what they read, and how they find me.
I love discussing the things I write about. That’s why I’ve written about them in the first place.
After blogging for about six years now, I’ve watched social media grow and evolve a lot, especially in how readers interact with writers.
Since I pour over my stats on a near-daily basis, especially when I see a traffic spike, I [...]
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