Starting a Meetup Group for Bloggers

Starting a Meetup Group for Bloggers

If you’ve ever been to a blogging conference, you know bloggers like nothing better than getting together,in person, with other bloggers to talk shop. They just seem to come alive—laughing, comparing notes, teaching each other little tricks of the trade, asking...
Stop Dating Yourself: The Case for Keeping Your Content Date-Free

Stop Dating Yourself: The Case for Keeping Your Content Date-Free

In the early days of blogs, dates mattered—a lot. That’s because most blogs were some form of an online journal, where the writer expressed experiences and observations of the day. Or the blogger commented on news items, links found elsewhere on the web, the...
Pinterest Tip: Refresh Your Boards

Pinterest Tip: Refresh Your Boards

If you’ve been using Pinterest for a while, your boards might need a bit of a tune-up. Chances are, you created your initial set of boards when you first joined Pinterest. That might have been years ago at this point, and so much has changed in the Pinterest...
My Top Pinterest Tips for Bloggers

My Top Pinterest Tips for Bloggers

  Pinterest has been a huge boon to bloggers since it launched in 2010. For the past year and a half, I’ve spent most of my waking hours obsessing over how Pinterest works and how it can work better for bloggers and independent publishers. Often, I capture...
Observations of a Pinterest Newbie

Observations of a Pinterest Newbie

  For the record, I am not a Pinterest newbie. Far from it. I actually first joined Pinterest back in 2011 when it was still “invite only”—a beta site just catching on among my social media circles, and I wanted to try it for myself. Since then,...