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08.07.07How to Make Your Blog (and your life) Sparkle RemarkableI read Sark. Especially when I'm glum, transitioning or uninspired. If I could put her, Seth Godin and Michael Goldhaber in a room together, I think I would come out enlightened. I imagine the dialogue would go something like this: Sark waves a rainbow scarf around and says something about the seeds of creative potential within each of us(!). Seth peels an orange and says that's great and all but it's how we tell our stories that matters--use your creative potential to tell a remarkable story. Then Michael, until now sitting somber near the window, jumps ...
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08.05.07Long Live Blogging!Thanks to comments and some deep thoughts, Jack Handey-style, I am back with a new proclamation that bloggers everywhere will appreciate: Long Live Blogging! Before you disappear into the ether of the internet forever, hear me out. I think blogging as we once thought about it is dead (and I was not blogging in '97, Al, but your ex was ahead of her time). "This is My Me" blogs are a dime a dozen and now, hopefully, becoming a thing of the past. I define a This is My Me as one that lacks a strong personal ...
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08.03.07Blogging Is Dead (& Here’s Why)Don't freak, but blogging is dead. I wondered if that might be the case before I got to BlogHer. When I heard the announcement upon arrival that nearly 800 bloggers would be at the conference, I winced. When we stood up in the first session to do a "speed-dating" 30 second introduction to what ended up being about 12 people in the room, I knew it, in my gut. Blogging is dead. I met some (mostly mommy) bloggers, I got a handful of cards, and I sat back down. Nobody said anything that rocked ...
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07.30.07BlogHer 2007 Superstar AwardsIt was like a cross between a trip to the salon, summer camp and startup weekend. It was wild, it was funny at times and it was definitely proof to me that women are not the underdogs of tech. They are the superstars-in-training. BlogHer '07 reminded me that putting nearly 800 strangers in a room together to talk about their passions is juicy, inspiring and uplifting. Here are the stars that really shined this weekend. This list is by no means comprehensive and if you think I've missed somebody super special, do let me know. BlogHer ...
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07.28.07Pro Blogging Session (blogher day 2)Arieanna Schweber, Jody DeVere, Paula Neal Mooney, Stefania Pomponi Butler, Chloe Spencer Amount of money you can make on your blog? Used to be about 5$ a post two years ago. Some people are making $1000/month or more on the panel. But the amount per post is arbitrary according to Stefania. Jody hires many employees and pays two full-time & one part-time blogger. She started her brick & mortar business on a blog. She joined a typepad community and got her blog featured, which really helped her SEO. Some of her biggest mistakes were blogging late into the night, posting and then finding ...
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07.10.07Startup Weekend. How Was it For You?Well, I'm nearly back to 100% following Startup Weekend and the near-launch of a new soft innovation, VoSnap. The idea of VoSnap is that you can make a quick vote, or a “decision in a snap.” Hence the tagline: It's decided. (To read more about the weekend, check out the extensive & comprehensive break-down of what went right/wrong, here.) I'd like to just take a few minutes and free-form on how the weekend and subsequent days have been for me. As one of only five women (one on the marketing team, one on the CSS team, ...
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