Do You Have Alternative Plans for Communicating?

Here I am, in California, USA, at 11:10 pm. My Comcast internet service has been down for 2 days now, and Comcast tells me I will have to go to a Comcast store tomorrow morning to figure out what the problem could be with my cable modem. Because of this, the 2 days of no [...]

Reader Appreciation Tips From Across the Blogosphere

Daniel’s group project finished over a week ago, and my intention was to spotlight the posts that dealt with some form of reader appreciation. In no particular order, here are the group project posts that have something to do with readers.

Is Your Blog Easy To Read?
A post discussing various design decisions to consider including [...]

The Three Types of Bloggers I Try to Avoid

As I move along in my professional career, I have some across three types of people in my office who I generally try to avoid working with. These may be people I get along with in a bar setting, but in a meeting or at work, we can be fierce enemies.
As I [...]

5 Ways to Appreciate During Unhappy Times

I was staying at a hotel in Alabama last week when I had the chance of meeting a lady working in the guest services office several times. She would act very happy around noon, and act very unhappy and non-responsive in the mornings. Regardless of her reasons for acting differently, she showed both her unhappiness [...]

7 Step Guide to Divorce Your Readers

Special note: this may not apply in case your life partner is also your reader.
Blogging to your readers’ expectation can be a very hard job. Exactly like living to your life partner’s expectations. Yet you like your blog, but how can you divorce your readers and get new ones, who’d like you more? Watch this:

Readers [...]