Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 15, 2011

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshopper series. This post isn’t about adding visuals or video into your WordPress blog , or using Cincopa , or judging a blog post by its cover. to see what I could find about even dummies being able to change the font size on one’s WordPress blog.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tech tools make me seem like a better writer than I am. My content pieces are often readable and coherent despite my abilities because of a gauntlet of tech tools I use to improve them before publishing (I also have good editors, which for the purposes of this piece we’ll ignore). Tools to improve your headlines.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 21, 2011

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. As I’ve been paying more attention to blogging—not just the writing thereof, but the look and how the posts come across—one of the fields that I believe is little-used is the “excerpt&# field in one’s WordPress blog. but you already know that.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 6, 2011

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. [I This was a post I'd been meaning to write for a long time, because I believe it can really help your blog, so I put a lot of effort into it. Which didn't mean that the blog went down, but Livefyre, the super-duper comment system I've been using, did.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Because when you live in a world as fast-paced as ours, you just have a few seconds while your potential reader is skimming through her email, or RSS reader, or website, and decides whether or not to click through and read the fully story… or move on. It’s not just thinking about writing that I’ve been engaging in.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 23, 2011

Earlier this week, there was a great guest post over at Spin Sucks on how long or short blog posts should be. If you haven’t read it yet, you should (and make sure you’re following Ingrid Abboud , the author, on Twitter as well). Your company is merging. One of the age-old questions, eh? So to each their own, right?

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Shonali’s recent post, Seven Ways to Set Your Presentations on Fire , accomplishes this goal. They lecture: “Send an IM to your friends and mention your website to them.&# Or “Turn your articles into downloadable reports/ebooks.&# Teach your readers to take ownership of content.

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