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Spring Cleaning for Your Blog – Dust off the Cobwebs
Spring cleaning isn’t just for your home. If you’re a blogger, it’s also for your blog and your posts. Much like our homes, blogs need a yearly “deep clean” to be sure the dust is gone and any small cracks in the facade are fixed. These tips on spring cleaning your blog can help you breathe new life into your blog and get you on track for the rest of the year. Spring Cleaning – A Deep Clean Your Blog Needs The following tips serve double duty and are invaluable tools to help you keep your blog rolling along. Not only do these tips help your blog work better, but…
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Bezalel’s Futura X – A Wireless Charging Pad to Make Life Easier #TakeCharge
Bezalel’s Futura X is an ultra thin wireless charging pad that’s also sexy. That’s right. It’s got a drop dead gorgeous sleek design combined with great performance. This wireless charging pad is ideal for those of us who never seem to have charging cords or chargers, and isn’t that pretty much all of us? Don’t try to deny it. You know they are never handy when you want them. Bezalel’s Futura X resolves that problem while looking good. Futura X – Making Charging Sexy I’ve been eyeing up charging pads forever, so when I found Bezalel’s products on line a couple of months ago I was smitten. Not only does Bezalel make…
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Hope and Progress in Zambia – Emerging Cooking Solutions
We are sitting inside a small business with potential to change the landscape dramatically for Zambia. Emerging Cooking Solutions started in 2012 with a goal to make cooking safer. With a loan from the UN Foundation, Marion Peterson and Mattias Ohlson are changing lives for the better in Zambia. This is our first site visit in a five day tour of Zambia. We are here to see the impact of vaccines on the lives of children. I am traveling with a group of journalists who have each received a Shot @ Life fellowship to write about what’s happening in Zambia. The journey was long and the heat in Lusaka is unlike any…
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When Feel Free To Share and Free Content Means No Budget
(A few weeks ago I posted this on my Facebook page. Sadly, I have had a big reason to post it again today. I can’t believe some people find it okay to repeatedly ask writers and influencers, editors and others, for constant freebies. This is my letter that I have actually cut and pasted a couple of times and sent to absurd requests ever since June 16. Feel Free to share this free content. In fact feel free to send a link to this post next time someone asks you to do a free twitter party, or a free post, or a free batch of tweets.) I’m putting this to…
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It’s Time for the March Edition of That’s So Random Funny Comments
OH MY GOODNESS where did March go? No idea. Anyways, here we go again. As you may know if you frequent this blog often I like to occasionally take stock and filter through my spam comments to see if any legitimate comments from you lovely readers got trapped in there. I do that once a month at least. Today I found three legitimate blog comments that are not spam so I approved them. YIPEE! See that’s like a little bit of gold hidden in the bottom of your old purse…the one with the lint and old gum. And the others, well, you be the judge here – are some of…
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My February That’s So Random Odd Spammy Blog Comments – Third Edition
Hello there!! February is almost done, which is outrageous really! I mean two months of 2016 are done already. Sometimes the days go way too fast for me here. Anyways, I started this series way back at the end of 2015 because I checked my Spam folder and found a selection of hilarious and odd blog comments. I thought the oddball spammy comments were too comical to let go. And out of that came That’s So Random series. This is the third edition of That’s So Random oddball funny blog comments. Part 1 was here – Oddball Blog Comments and that was a selection of 2015’s best spam comments. January’s…
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Build a Better Blogger Outreach Program in 2016 – Influencer Marketing and the Changing Landscape
You cannot stand still in the world of social media, or influencer marketing. Smart blogger outreach coordinators and businesses are at once, business people, marketers, and cool hunters too. They are always on the lookout for new trends, ideas, people, events, tools, and content that resonates. This is one of the things I love the most about the field I work in. It is ever evolving and dynamic. This is not a post about me gazing into a crystal ball and telling you what’s the hottest trend for 2016. I’m not interested in that right now and in fact I have seen a few too many of those social media prediction posts…
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That’s So Random – Odd Blog Comments
Your comments are gold! Your comments are wonderful! They are magical and well thought out and they are evidence that you are highly intelligent and sophisticated life form. I love it when you share your smart brains and thoughts and words in comment form. It makes me happy. You might not always agree with me, and that’s fine, but you are reading and that’s the most important thing here. If you are also a blogger, then you know bloggers treasure comments. We often read each one. Prospective, and current clients, read them too. They are fuel that sometimes keeps us going. They are also our currency. Comments are a measure of…
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Six Tips to Conquer the Layover #Travel
Layover. If you travel by plane at all, that word strikes fear into your heart. The literal definition of layover is waiting at the airport for the next plane. The effective definition of layover is the 10th circle of Hell, where you wait in a seemingly endless purgatory. How to Conquer a Layover A layover is the bane of every air traveler’s existence. You have at least an hour if not more of just sitting around. It can be a torturous nightmare. But it doesn’t have to be. There are ways to make a layover more fun and less, “OMG! ARGH!” [tweetthis]A traveller’s nightmare? A layover can be a royal…
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Five Essentials for Conference Season
Every May conference season kicks off with flare. For the last two years I have been attending Mom 2. o summit. It’s always a great start to conference season. After that, a string of social media and digital media conferences pop up across North America. There’s Travel Bloggers Expo (TBEX), which takes place several different locations each year, Blogher and Bloggy Bash, VidCon, Food Bloggers Conference, Blog Podium, Type A Parent, and eventually Blissdom Canada which is usually October. It is possible for bloggers to find themselves racing from one conference to the next, from May to October. Organized bloggers, photographers and digital media professionals need tools that make conference season effective…
