How To Publish A Great Blog Post…
Even If You’re New to Blogging

Hi it’s Vera here again, bringing you some tips to keep your writers interested and keep them coming back to your blog, all the while, making it easier to blog for you. Watch the quick 2-minute video or keep reading for the full story.

If you’re new to blogging or you struggle with getting your blog posts done, here are some useful tips… Read more…

Adapt or Die?

If you’ve ever seen the movie Hanna, you’ll remember the phrase, “Adapt or Die.” Hanna’s father, played by Eric Bana, teaches his daughter to live by these words.

Since I’ve seen that movie, I’ve whispered that phrase to myself on a few occasions. No, not because I need to worry about honing my assassin abilities when the bad guys come, but because making a living with content does require that you adapt or you’ll quite likely meet your virtual demise.

Last night I followed a link on Facebook and read an article by a film critic, someone who makes their living with content, refusing to adapt. What’s worse is that the author, Kieran Turner-Dave, not only seems to refuse to adapt…he seems to want his audience and the whole filmmaking industry to adapt to him. Read more…

What Formats Should You Publish Content In?

My 4 year old is awesome. Of course she is...she's my kid. I bet you feel the same way about you kids, your nieces, nephews and so forth. ;-) She has been watching cooking and cake decorating videos on YouTube since she figured out how to use an iPad (half her life now). Now whenever we make food or she plays with her toy kitchen, she pretends she's on video and narrating her own cooking show. I envy her confidence and her enjoyment in the spoken word and being on camera. I'm the exact opposite. I am most comfortable at a keyboard. I am very camera shy and I soon forget what I planned to say. Not to mention the weird things I do weird things with my eyebrows. But with my fingers the words Read more...

What’s the Big Deal about Persuasive Writing?

So the other day, my 11 year old told me he was going to be learning about persuasive writing at school. I was definitely intrigued by that, since it’s a subject of interest to me. I told him to be sure to tell me about the things he would be learning.

Well a few days later, instead of telling me what he learned, he presented me with this letter… Read more…

Plugin: Speech Bubble Ads

Quick Description: A handy WordPress speech bubble plugin that allows you to create small ads that look like speech bubbles in the bottom right corner of your screen. Read more…

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