5 Ways to Make Your Blog Posts Outstanding

Image via Wikipedia Are your blog posts just “okay”? Want to make them great? If so, keep reading. A great blog post respects the needs of three distinct entities. It educates and informs your audience (your subscribers and visitors), optimizes for the search engines and sufficiently energizes you so that you do a good job … Continue reading 5 Ways to Make Your Blog Posts Outstanding

Answered: 10 Questions About Website Redesign

Image by mikevolpe.com via CrunchBase Website redesign can be lethal or liberating for your business. Know what you are getting into before you sign the contract. Most recently, we covered the website redesign topic in a webinar with HubSpot’s VP of Marketing, Mike Volpe. We received nearly 400 questions during the live session and wanted … Continue reading Answered: 10 Questions About Website Redesign

The 7 Deadly Fears of Blogging and How to Overcome Them

Image via Wikipedia I remember back to early 2008, when I’d just started blogging, that even though I had great ambitions, my knowledge, expertise, and confidence as a blogger was sorely lacking. I stumbled through my blogging career for over a year before I felt I had a really good grip on things, and even … Continue reading The 7 Deadly Fears of Blogging and How to Overcome Them

Why You Should Learn By Doing

Image by wuperruper via Flickr Do you enjoy learning new things? I certainly do.In particular, I enjoy about learning new ways to better myself and my relationships with others. When I first started on this quest I couldn't get enough. I read about it all the time on blogs, online magazines and in books. There … Continue reading Why You Should Learn By Doing

10 Helpful Resources on the Basics For The Computer Illiterate

Over the weekend, I was helping a family member with transferring files to his laptop from his new digital camera. The experience showed me that what many of us take for granted with computers seems like absolute voodoo to many other people. When I told him to open Microsoft Explorer, he looked at me with … Continue reading 10 Helpful Resources on the Basics For The Computer Illiterate

Your nonprofit communications course catalog

Image via Wikipedia Welcome, all, to the back-to-school edition of the nonprofit blog carnival. (Say, what’s a blog carnival?) From the many great posts we received, we’ve put together this handy dandy list of nonprofit communications resources. It’s the first day of college all over again, but without the social pressure. Choose a topic, learn, and … Continue reading Your nonprofit communications course catalog

The Future Of Blogging Might Surprise You

It's [blogging] a profound shift in how we write, read, contribute and distribute the published word. Blogs are no longer the black sheep of publishing. They have quickly become as important as the printed word. "The New York Times operates at least 50 public-facing blogs," the Blogosphere report says. "These blogs are intertwined with the … Continue reading The Future Of Blogging Might Surprise You