There are numerous scholarly papers that a student has to write throughout his/her academic life. These academic papers are used for evaluation both in summative and informal contexts. These papers carry a lot of significance because they ultimately contribute to the final grade that a student can attain at the end of the semester. These […]
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Skills That Pay The Bills: Copywriting, SEO, and Blogging
Hello, intrepid readers. We are going to shift gears a bit in this post and address an issue that is always near and dear to my heart: money. This is not to say that I am obsessed with wealth, but I certainly enjoy being able to live comfortably and enjoy my hobbies, which as a […]
How to Write for the New Media
Writers write, and we like to think we do it well. But sometimes what we were taught in writing classes and have learned from reading will mean death in online media. This is because the medium is so vastly different and people have different needs from the new media than they did from the old. […]
Two Key Concepts for Staying Sane in Social Media
One of my readers made a request for a sequel to Ten Steps to Being Everywhere in Social Media, which is now (thanks to all of you) my most popular post and responsible for about a third of my total traffic. XIII writes: I’m looking forward to the sequel; How to keep up with reading everything. While […]
Ten Steps to Being Everywhere in Social Media
So you want to be everywhere? I think that to succeed in the social media world, a key concept is social density. I work towards this by constantly looking for new sites and services to maintain a presence on and being active in many different microblogging communities. I also manage to at times have a life […]
How To Find New People On Twitter
Well, as everyone has been noting, Twitter is now thoroughly mainstream. Once you have Oprah and her legions on a service, it has definitely left the exclusive realm of geeks and early adopters. Unlike some of my peers, I do not resent the presence and arrival of the celebrities and their virtual entourages. However, I do recognize that […]