Category: Blogging

  • #the5 for the week ending November 19, 2010

    [the5intro] #the5: Where @Klout really shines and what #Klout scores I’m paying attention to: https://www.christopherspenn.com/youve-discovered-the-missing-link/ #the5: What works best for traffic for @problogger? Email marketing, of course: https://www.christopherspenn.com/youve-discovered-the-missing-link/ #the5: Take 30 minutes and your MP3 player and try this set of exercises on Escape Velocity: https://www.christopherspenn.com/youve-discovered-the-missing-link/ #the5: Recession over? No way says Marketing Charts: cost…

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  • #the5 for the week ending November 12, 2010

    [the5intro] #the5: @julien tells you why every business is a machine: https://bit.ly/crZeu6 #the5: @mashable: For Employees, Facebook Counts as Free Speech https://bit.ly/au02Gc #the5: @matthewebel tells America to stop waiting on Obama and fix your own damn economy: https://bit.ly/azQxXW #the5: @mitchjoel on becoming a better speaker: https://bit.ly/9h34mj #the5: @revenews: 10 Reasons SEO Didn’t Work For You…

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  • #the5 for the week ending November 4, 2010

    I tweet out #the5 regularly on weekday mornings. Folks have asked in the past if they could somehow get these tweets in another fashion, but every Twitter/Wordpress plugin I’ve seen makes a mangled, annoying mess of processing the Twitterstream, so until there’s a better option, I’ll just throw out this digest. If you’d like to…

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  • Back issues: personal newsletter, August/September 2010

    I just realized I never got around to posting the relevant content from the back issues of my personal newsletter, so over the next couple of days, we’ll get everyone caught up. Some of the stuff won’t make it here because it’s woefully out of date (like events) so it’ll just be the pieces that…

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  • Back issues: personal newsletter, July 2010

    I just realized I never got around to posting the relevant content from the back issues of my personal newsletter, so over the next couple of days, we’ll get everyone caught up. Some of the stuff won’t make it here because it’s woefully out of date (like events) so it’ll just be the pieces that…

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  • Back issues: personal newsletter, June 2010

    I just realized I never got around to posting the relevant content from the back issues of my personal newsletter, so over the next couple of days, we’ll get everyone caught up. Some of the stuff won’t make it here because it’s woefully out of date (like events) so it’ll just be the pieces that…

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  • Back issues: personal newsletter, May 2010

    I just realized I never got around to posting the relevant content from the back issues of my personal newsletter, so over the next couple of days, we’ll get everyone caught up. Some of the stuff won’t make it here because it’s woefully out of date (like events) so it’ll just be the pieces that…

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  • The wedding of Steve and Mindy Penn

    I’m thrilled to have celebrated and been a part of my little brother’s wedding as best man yesterday. For those wedding guests who are interested in the photos from the event, you’ll find them in this Flickr set. Special thanks to Brooke Pichette for some of the ceremony photos! Here also you’ll find the prepared…

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  • Why I’m recommending Elegant Themes

    Disclosure: this whole post is an affiliate marketing post. If that makes you unhappy, please skip it. Doing affiliate marketing for WordPress themes is nothing new in the social space. After testing out dozens and dozens of different providers, from Thesis to the WordPress Codex, I’ve settled in on Nick Roach’s Elegant Themes and am…

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  • The obligation of the content creator

    How long does it take to scan a tweet? To read a blog post? To listen to a podcast? To watch a video? Perhaps seconds. Perhaps minutes. Depending on what your content is and how much of it you create, you could be asking your friends, followers, and fans to give up incredible amounts of…

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