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Tips on Getting the Family/Blogging Balance Right
21 APR 2010 / 12 Comments
One of the things that attracted me to blogging as a way to earn an income was the flexibility that it gave me and the opportunity it gives me to work from home and be involved in the lives of my young family. While my wife is the primary care giver and I’m full time as a blogger I am pretty hands on where I can be and there are days (like today) where I look after the boys.
Of course working at home – whether the work is blogging or something else – is not only a great opportunity but also a challenge. The line behind work and family can sometimes blur.
9 Critical Tasks Before Launching Your Small Business Blog
20 APR 2010 / 38 Comments
In this post Mark Hayward shares some ‘must do’ tips for small business owners who are getting ready to launch a blog.
Are you getting ready to launch your baby? You know, your small …
Are People Wanting More?
Tweets, Facebook and LinkedIn Status Updates… the short form communication
that has dominated social media over the last few years is a wonderful thing.
While I was initially sceptical that anything worthwhile could be communicated
in 140 characters I now see the place of this type of communication.
However… I’m noticing a swing and I’d be interested to know if I’m the only one?
What I’m sensing is people starting to want more than they’re getting in 140 characters –
something deeper, something more thoughtful, something more meaningful.
By no means am I suggesting that you can’t be deep, thoughtful or meaningful on
Twitter or Facebook – but those are characteristics that I don’t tend to associate
with most of the short bursts of content I see flying around in the social media space.
Keep Your Home Base
2-3 years ago I saw a range of bloggers giving up their blogs to get onto Twitter.
I never quite got that move – giving up your own site, on your own domain, on your
own servers…. a place where you had complete control – to go invest time in someone
else’s domain, adding content that ultimately they had control over (while you might
retain copyright they can switch your account off at any time if they perceive you to
be breaking their terms of service).
My argument has always been to keep your Home Base and treat social media
accounts as Outposts. I’m betting that those who gave up blogging to get onto Twitter
are probably wishing they at least kept their blogs these days.
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