I was going to try to be crafty and set up a bunch of posts to auto-post while I’m on vacation for a week…then I realized I need to get over myself because blogging is my HOBBY not my JOB and I don’t need to stress about it that much. So instead, I’m just going […]
Sometimes It’s Ok To Do It Wrong
There are plenty of things you have to do in life. Pay your bills. Take care of your kids (if you have kids). Drive at the correct speed limit. Show up to work on time. You know, the basics. I have a lot of “have tos” in my life because I’m a parent, a wife […]
Why Is It Surprising When People Don’t Blog?
It always amuses me when people express surprise or shock that execs–or people in general–don’t blog. Blogging=writing. If you don’t like to write, or can’t write well, why would you have a blog? Most execs probably didn’t become execs because they love writing and write really well. They are business people. Not writers. Not to […]
Is Summer the Season for Social Media Malaise?
Recently I just haven’t been feeling it as much–blogging, tweeting–just the whole social media thing. Life is too busy and sometimes I question why I put all this other stuff on myself when I already have a more-than-full plate with kids, a husband, a full-time job, etc. I blogged about it last week with regard […]
Mommy Blogger Drama
I posted this in my other blog (the one where I can use the “F” word and talk about stuff other than social media) but figured I may as well save myself some time this holiday weekend and make it do double-duty over here. Fear not: no use of the “F” word in this particular […]
Looks Matter, Even in the Blogosphere
I read an interesting post a few weeks ago but have been too busy to blog much since then; it was about how female tech bloggers are perceived differently than males. Namely, if a woman is attractive it becomes difficult to find comments that reflect on what she’s trying to say rather than how she […]
Blogging For Profit?
This morning I was flipping through Website Magazine, intrigued by the cover story “Blog: Carving Out A Plan For Profit” (page 26). I get to the story and the first sentence stopped me in my tracks: “Web professionals should be using blogs for one purpose–to make money.” Excuse me? The article goes on to instruct […]
Why Every Stay-Home Mom Needs to Be On Facebook
A few weeks ago I went to a bingo night at school, arranged by the PTA. PTA isn’t really my thing, but any form of gambling is, so I went. After bingo (I didn’t win once in 21 games—go figure why I love gambling) I went out for drinks with a group of moms. When […]
More Reasons to Blog
I’m recycling this from my other blog because it relates to a post I did a while back on this blog about why I blog. Happy Blogoversary to MeOk, that’s not actually true–this is not the anniversary of my first post. It is, however, almost the anniversary of the date I started tracking visitor stats. […]
Why Blog?
I’m not going to let this article shatter my “write about nothing and eventually it will magically result in some kind of money-making windfall” theory. Minutes after I read that article, this showed up in my inbox (I subscribe to David Meerman Scott’s blog, Webinknow). Just as I wrote about Mimi Smartypants in my personal […]