Do people remember your blog posts? Does your content have staying power? If you evoke emotions in your readers, I can guarantee that your ideas will remain firmly planted in their brain. How do you do that as a blogger? With the right photo, of course. I’ll be writing a post soon to help you…
Last weekend I hit the road—and the water—for the Whidbey Island Writer’s Conference. I have been to a bazillion conferences in my day: they were events for teachers, or direct mail copywriters, or bloggers or marketers, depending on what field I was in at the moment. They all blur together in my mind. The thought…
When I was a teacher, one of the worst things a kid could have, the thing that would hold her back throughout life and beyond, was low self-concept. It was whispered about children, as though they would never get any farther than flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s because they had, you know: a low self-concept Of…
Last year, around Thanksgiving, I got a wild notion that maybe, just maybe, I could enter the Write to Done Top 10 Blogs for Writers contest. Just contemplating some of the past winners, like Men with Pens and Copyblogger, made me a little weak in the knees. But I thought, “Why not?” Like running for…
When I think about my vision for the Cat’s Eye blog, I usually think of two words: community and inclusive. I care about and appreciate my lurkers just as much as my active commenters. Some people just want to get the information and run. Others like the back and forth and new friendships made with…
The number one reason I switched to the livefyre commenting system was to enable deeper conversations and make the Cat’s Eye community stronger and healthier. I’ve been hearing from a few of you lately and I think it’s time for another check of the heartbeat. Some of you do not have a blog yet—or are…
Kids come to school with ideas already formed. About winning and losing. About being the best at something. About being stronger. Smarter. More cool. As a first grade teacher, I liked to shake things up a bit with my students. Challenge their little worlds. Get them to think differently. A trend in education that started…
On your way to becoming an A-list blogger, marketer, copywriter, or author, you probably try on ideas. Maybe you even use them. You take the advice, apply it to your personal situation and make it your own. Some might say that’s the definition of a copycat. If you have ever learned a new skill, you…
We tell stories to process a devastating event. So we can feel what people inside the event must have felt. To hold tight to a little piece of what makes us connected as humans. We tell stories so we never forget. Sometimes we tell stories in what feels like a vacuum. With a blog, we…
A few months ago, I decided to give Livefyre a spin on this blog. Technically, according to livefyre CEO Jordan Kretchmer, livefyre is a “community platform,” not a commenting system. “It’s about building new ways for people to interact in real time,” he said, “and connecting all the chatter around the web about each piece…
In the movie Anchorman, Will Ferrell’s character, Ron Burgundy, tells his friends, “Veronica and I tried this new fad called, uh, jogging. I believe it’s ‘jogging’— or ‘yogging.’ It might be a soft ‘j.’” I was almost as ignorant when I launched this blog. Sure, I knew how to pronounce “blogging.” But not much else….
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