Post Overview
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Expression
6 years ago+4 4 0Why You Should Keep Writing When You Just Want to Quit
I almost gave up writing back in 2011. My blog was full of musings I’d published for five years. It felt good to do it. And I hoped someone would care. Outside a handful of friends, no one did. So I quit. It bothered me all night every night unti ...
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How-to
6 years ago+12 12 0How to Write in a Conversational Style That Will Connect with Your Readers
An 8-step checklist that will help you develop a conversational writing style so your readers will trust you like a good friend.
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Expression
6 years ago+18 18 0Small b blogging
There’s an idea that starting a blog is harder than it used to be. That there used to be a way to write a few words, slap it online and wait for the traffic to roll in. I call BS. It’s not that it’s not true exactly - but that kind of thinking is li ...
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Expression
6 years ago+7 7 0Blogger Burnout: 12 bloggers give their top tips
Last night I asked Twitter and Facebook to give their tips for avoiding blogger burnout. Below are their responses, as well as some tips of my own!
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Expression
6 years ago+6 6 0The Two Magic Words That Will Strengthen Your Writing
It’s a Thursday afternoon, and I’m a teaching a group of restless sixth graders some of the finer points of English grammar. As you can probably guess, this isn’t the easiest task in the world. Several of the students are beginning to whisper back a ...
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Expression
6 years ago+8 8 0 x 15 Invaluable Lessons I’ve Learned From Decluttering My Content
I had just finished my last 4th-grade essay, and I couldn’t wait to show my teacher. “I’m finally done, Mrs. Anderson.” “Oh, great job,” she said as she grabbed the 2-gigabyte flash drive from my hand. “Let’s review it one last time.” Everythin ...
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Expression
6 years ago+23 23 0Is social media making your child sad?
Do children spend too much time online and does social media use make them anxious and unhappy?
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Expression
6 years ago+20 20 0Beware the looming Google Chrome HTTPS certificate apocalypse!
Well, melee. Dust-up? Minor inconvenience? But it's coming!!
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Expression
6 years ago+19 20 1 x 1376 Royalty Free, Creative Commons and Public Domain Sites!
Here's a huge list of websites to find photos, images, music, backgrounds, fonts and everything you need as a blogger.
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+4 4 0Podcast: "Do people want to read your stuff?"
How can you stand out in a crowded niche in 2018? Do people actually want to read your stuff? How is Bobby going to make $1M in 2018? For the holidays, enjoy this bonus, long, unfiltered, unedited episode with Bobby Hoyt from Millennial Money Man!
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Expression
6 years ago+37 37 0 x 1My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror
As I took the stand, I thought about how much press freedom had been lost and how drastically national security reporting had changed in the post-9/11 era.
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Current Event
6 years ago+24 24 0Tiny company which owns some Hooter's restaurants says it will use blockchain, boosting stock by 50%
Chanticleer Holdings, an owner of burger restaurants, said it will use blockchain-related technology for its customer rewards program.
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Review
6 years ago+4 4 0The Month in WordPress: December 2017
Activity slowed down in December in the WordPress community, particularly in the last two weeks. However, the month started off with a big event and work still pushed forward in a number of key areas of the project. Read on to find out more about wha ...
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Buys Bitcoin once
Sorry Fam but your boy is retiring to officially day-trade #Cryptocurrency. No idea how y’all do that 9-5 noise.
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Review
6 years ago+6 6 0The Month in WordPress: November 2017
The WordPress project recently released WordPress 4.9, “Tipton” — a new major release named in honor of musician and band leader Billy Tipton.
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Expression
6 years ago+15 15 0You don’t need to be organised to be the best at what you do
I’m one of the least organised people you’ll meet. I have very little structure in my day. I don’t have a morning routine, beyond brushing my teeth and checking emails.
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+16 16 0There’s Something I Never Told You
This is my first short film. I wrote this when I was at my lowest point. I didn't know how to deal anymore so I decided I needed to talk openly about this. I'm tired of hiding, especially from my fans. For many of you, I've become the ...
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+9 9 0Podcast: An hour with Ev Williams: founder of Medium, Twitter, and Blogger
As I say at the start of our interview, Ev has founded an almost unreasonably long list of companies - and the three listed above each had huge impacts on the Internet, and on digital culture. A remarkably coherent theme connects these companies - a ...
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Review
6 years ago+12 12 0The Month in WordPress: October 2017
While this month we focused on building new features for WordPress core, we advanced other areas of the project too. Read on to learn more about what the WordPress project accomplished during the month of October.
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Video/Audio
6 years ago+9 9 0Podcast: Productivity for Writers with NaNoWriMo’s Grant Faulkner
Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), demolishes the myths that hold us back from expressing our creativity and tells us how to make creative writing part of a daily routine.