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Series Introduction:

Want to bring more traffic to your website by adding a blog? Or not quite ready for a website but want to start building your name and attracting an audience with a blog alone? This series explains how to launch a blog if you’ve never had one—or take your current blog to an all-new level. Articles include blog basics such as platforms and design, pros and cons of solo blogging and group blogging, blogging ethics and etiquette, and the all-important question of writing and content. Also coming up in future articles: tips for marketing and promoting on your blog, creating traffic-building interest, developing your unique blogging style, time management for blogging, setting your blogging boundaries, and beating bloggers’ block. [Read more →]

Tags: How to Blog, Marketing, Series Articles, The Writer's Blog Workshop by Suzanne McMinn
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According to Wikipedia, a meme is defined as “a theoretical unit of cultural information, the building block of cultural evolution or diffusion that propagates from one mind to another analogously to the way in which a gene propagates from one organism to another as a unit of genetic information and of biological evolution.”

In the context of blogging, a meme is most commonly a list of questions that has a viral impact, meaning one blogger posts the list, answers the questions, and other bloggers pick up on the list by posting and answering the questions on their own blogs, and so on.  As the list spreads, the questions not only replicate but mutate as some bloggers may choose to alter the questions.  [Read more →]

Tags: Creativity, How to Blog by Suzanne McMinn
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Why do writers need websites? Let’s face it, publishers put their promotional $$ behind big time authors. That leaves the rest of the authors of the world.

There really is no valid reason for a writer not to have a website. People google you…be there for them. Afraid of all things techie? Well, stick around and we’ll offer you help in that area in future posts, but for now let’s just talk about the whys of having a writer’s website. [Read more →]

Tags: Website Tips by Kacey
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