Archive for September, 2007
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007What is an expert?
Here’s the thing. If you’re talking about an expert brain surgeon or a master acrobatic pilot, I would definitely want to know they have been granted such status because of their extensive education, training and experience.
But when it comes to the ever evolving online worlds of marketing, blogging and social media, expert […]
Top these…
Saturday, September 29th, 2007Things have been a little crazy the last few days. So by the time I finished today’s post and a few design projects that had to be done this week, I finally took a little time to peruse the 500+ new posts in my Bloglines reader.
So I give you a few posts that stood […]
Bloggers are people too…aren’t we?
Friday, September 28th, 2007Marty Weintraub recently took us all to charm school in a brilliantly straightforward post on the enduring power of good manners. He describes the power of simple acts of gratitude and respect to your online peers.
It’s astounding how social media vernacular is sometimes nearly devoid of traditional niceties like “please”, “congratulations”, and “thank you” […]
A Quick Tip for Building A Stumbletastic Fan Base
Thursday, September 27th, 2007In honor of reaching my 3,000th thumb, I thought I’d share a quick stumbling tip I’ve picked up along the way.
If you want to build your StumbleUpon fan base or add friends, I’ve found it’s highly effective to spend a little time, even five minutes, each day Stumbling stumblers. It’s exactly like stumbling […]
All I Needed to Know About Social Media I Learned In Kindergarten
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007For those of us who are just jumping into the social media ocean, the rules and protocol can be a bit confusing. Robert Fulgham’s assertion that “All I Really Need To Know I learned in Kindergarten” gives us some very helpful ground rules to keep in mind while getting connected.
Share everything
If you find great […]
Funny thing happened on the way to 3,000 Stumbles
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007My obsession with StumbleUpon is no big secret! But in the last few days, I’ve been even more impressed with the great SU. Here’s the shocker, my newfound respect has absolutely nothing to do with traffic to this blog or any of my others…while that’s nice too.
What I’ve found out firsthand is that […]
Perfectionism: the most prolific form of procrastination
Monday, September 24th, 2007Have you ever had an unplanned dark day on your blog because you have the perfect idea for a post, but you can’t seem to get it just right?
The main problem is that one dark day can quickly into 2, 3, 4 and before you know it you reach the “I’ve been gone so long […]
Top 10 Dreams Bloggers Don’t Want to Wake Up From…
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Every single page and post in your blog have been stumbled by 5 or more top stumblers.
You just received a letter from Google, and due to an error on their part, you were underpaid by $4000 on each of your last earnings checks.
Several of your posts have made it to the front page of Digg, […]
The Power of the Stumble
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007As promised, here’s the stats from the first five days of danawallert.com I was going to write a witty introduction here..but I think I’ll just let the numbers speak for themselves…
What I did
Wrote 9 posts and plenty of comments on other blogs. I stumbled a couple of my posts to get the ball […]
Observations after 5 days of Dana
Friday, September 21st, 2007
You can never have too many saved drafts in your Dashboard.
While most lists will warn against blogging while delirious from exhaustion, after a drink or two or when generally in a bad mood, I’ve found those posts to be my most popular…and I’m not alone in thinking this check out MattJMCD’s new post Hitting […]