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Blogging 101, Day 11: Make a Prompt Personal – Kid Rock, Foreigner and Hurricane

July 25, 2015

Today’s assignment: publish a post based on your own, personalized take on a blogging prompt. Day 11 six days late. I experienced writer’s block. I was also overwhelmed by trying to herd the information swirling around in my brain, as well as physically compiling the stuff for photos I wanted to use and then putting out the … More Blogging 101, Day 11: Make a Prompt Personal – Kid Rock, Foreigner and Hurricane

Blogging 101 Day Ten: Build A Better Blogroll

July 20, 2015

Today’s assignment: create a blogroll to share a few links you love.  Why do this? You tell readers more about yourself through what you choose to share. Giving readers recommendations turns you into a trustworthy source of great stuff. When other bloggers see you referring them traffic, they’re likely to drop in on you — a traffic win-win. … More Blogging 101 Day Ten: Build A Better Blogroll

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Blogging 101 Day Nine: Get Inspired by the Neighbors

July 20, 2015

Today’s assignment: write a post that builds on one of the comments you left yesterday. Don’t forget to link to the other blog! A blog topic that I could build upon dawned on me rather quickly. When I read whereshappy’s totally relatable I Can’t Turn My Head to the Right, I was reminded of one of the things that delayed putting … More Blogging 101 Day Nine: Get Inspired by the Neighbors

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Blogging 101, Day Six: Make an Irresistable “About” Page

July 15, 2015

Today’s assignment: create and publish your About page, then either adapt it into a widget on your home page or add it to your menu. I am no longer afraid to click buttons in WordPress so I think I am getting somewhere. I made so many drafts of my new About page…if you happened to visit … More Blogging 101, Day Six: Make an Irresistable “About” Page

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Blogging 101, Day Four: Identify Your Audience – With an REO Speedwagon Story

July 11, 2015

Today’s Assignment: publish a post you’d like your ideal audience member to read, and include a new-to-you element in it. Today I’m going to cheat just a bit and use one of the “practice posts” that I wrote over the past two years while this blog thing was germinating in my mind and awaiting my technological know-how. I finally … More Blogging 101, Day Four: Identify Your Audience – With an REO Speedwagon Story

Blogging 101, Day Three: Say Hello to the Neighbors

July 9, 2015

When I read this assignment I thought “Great!” I finally get to spend some time leisurely flitting around random WordPress blogs and The Blogging 101 Commons. Silly, silly girl. This has been a highly frustrating exercise for me. I think I’ve learned that I simply don’t have the hang of “tags” quite yet. And my restlessness, … More Blogging 101, Day Three: Say Hello to the Neighbors

Blogging 101, Day Two: Take Control of Your Title and Tagline

July 8, 2015

Today, let’s make sure you love yours. If you’re already thrilled with your title…let readers know what inspired your title and tagline. I love my title and I really like my tagline. My title rocks and I love, love, love it. My tagline may be a bit cheesy, and it’s not clever, but I think … More Blogging 101, Day Two: Take Control of Your Title and Tagline