Posted in Blog Stuff on Aug 3rd, 2006 4 Comments »
Hey everybody! Today my stat counter tells me I’ve had over 10,000 visitors to this site in the last year! Can you say, “super DUPER cool”?
To honor the event I’ve added a search bar to the right, a little trick I learned in a workshop at BlogHer. Bryan was WAY turned on [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, BlogHer on Jul 31st, 2006 6 Comments »
There was much discussion at BlogHer around the community of the blogging world, built largely through commenting on other sites, responding to comments on your own sites, linking to one another, and so forth.
One question I forgot to ask in the many sessions I attended was regarding comment etiquette. When someone new [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, BlogHer on Jul 28th, 2006 2 Comments »
It’s a funny thing about me – you could have put me in front of a microphone on stage to address all 400 people at Blogher today and I would have stunned you with my articulate genius. I commented freely and confidently in all the sessions I attended. But I couldn’t even manage to [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, BlogHer on Jul 28th, 2006 1 Comment »
[live blogging – please excuse typos, grammar, and lack of links]
10 Types of Web Writing: And how to execute them professionally. Lisa Stone and Lynne D. Johnson walk you through everything from short-form sign post blogging to long-form essay blogging.
Lynn Johnson
Fastcompany.com editor
Lynndjohnson.com
Lisa Stone
Hard print writer & editor
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Conversationswithdina.com – engaging readers in conversation, dialogue
“I [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, BlogHer on Jul 28th, 2006 4 Comments »
[Live Blogging – please excuse typos, grammar, and lack of linking]
Audience Building
Elise Bauer talks traffic: how to build it, how to understand your site statistics, how to optimize your site to build search engine traffic, how to use syndication and subscriptions to build recurring traffic…the works!
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These are the opinions of Elise Bauer, [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, BlogHer on Jul 28th, 2006 No Comments »
I had attempted to live blog by posting notes after each session, but my web site’s hosting company aparantly had a power outage that rendered my site down all afternoon.
Which is a bummer, since I’m all about instant gratification.
So if I can manage to keep an internet connection, I will now post some notes.
Posted in Blog Stuff, BlogHer on Jul 28th, 2006 3 Comments »
[Live Blogging – Please excuse type and grammar errors and lack of links!]
Day One: So, you have this crazy idea…
You want to start a community-based blog site, but aren’t sure where to start. Melanie Morgan, Nancy White, Susannah Gardner & Lauren Gelman are among those who will help you examine what’s out there, define what [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Everyday on Jul 27th, 2006 1 Comment »
So I’m standing at the gate at the Seattle airport letting my kids run around a bit before strapping them in for a two hour flight, when a guy appears next to me and I INSTANTLY know who he is.
“Excuse me,” I say. “Are you married someone named Amanda?”
I think he freaks out a little, [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Jul 26th, 2006 2 Comments »
Day 1
I think I’ll attend this workshop on community-based blogs. I’m very invested in my offline community, and I’m interested in the discussion of creating online communities. Also, I follow Nancy White’s blog, and was even linked by her when I posted my Year of Melodic Shouting video. Her comments on [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff on Jul 25th, 2006 3 Comments »
A couple months ago when registration opened for Blogher, I really wanted to go, but knowing it came the weekend following our camping trip, and because I was still feeling overwhelmed by the simple things at the time, I didn’t think I could handle back to back trips.
Enter my friend, Ponzi, who sent word out [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Seen, Heard, Said on Jul 14th, 2006 No Comments »
I just took a break from cleaning to catch up on a few blog reads. The short break turned into a long break, and now I have many rabbit-trail links open that I really don’t have time to follow up on now.
Sigh.
It’s ironic to me that as much as I HATE reading [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Everyday on Jul 7th, 2006 No Comments »
I was looking for something else and came across this old post of mine, and I have to say it is my all time favorite random post. It’s like a Seinfeld episode, really – a post about nothing. And to make it uber-nostalgic, I even linked to the ORIGINAL post in my old [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Soundrack, Things on Jul 1st, 2006 2 Comments »
I’m so excited I could pee! I have butterflies in my chest and my head is going to explode! I have finally discovered how to do EXACTLY what I’ve wanted to do with music on this blog!
Last night I went to a Gnomedex networking party and met a guy named Matt. We [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Fun Pile on May 26th, 2006 No Comments »
I used to read Secret Agent Josephine back when she was pregnant, and somehow I lost track of her blog until now, when she has a four month old baby! I read back on several of her entries to try and catch up with her, and discovered that she’s been making monthly movies of [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Books, Fun Pile on May 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Tonight Bryan and I had tickets to see Over the Rhine at Neumo’s on Capital Hill. This band is probably responsible for our marriage, because as soon as Bryan heard that I even KNEW about them, he was in love.
They opened with Latter Days, which makes me cry whenever I hear it, [...]