Posts Tagged ‘blogging’
Principles for blogging or any other social media posts
The post is about using Instagram stories but it applies to social media posting in general, and blogging in particular. It’s the full text of an excellent article about posting strategy, from Reddit user Remarkable_Celery709. It was posted in the u/smallbusiness subreddit on Reddit. I almost never quote other people’s complete work, but I’m posting…
Read MoreOn Facebook outages and why it’s still ok to “own your own content”
Over at PostStatus David Bisset has a thoughtful post about brushing off the recent Facebook/Instagram/WeChat outage with quips about “own your own content.” Time will tell if Facebook being down on Oct 4th will be the single greatest system failure in tech in 2021. There’s been some good writing explaining what went wrong (and the fact that mistakes…
Read MoreScam: threatening email or contact-form spam from “Melissa”
Our standard maintenance plan includes one hour of consulting a month. In the last couple of days several maintenance clients have contacted me after receiving scary, threatening “copyright infringement” messages coming from their contact forms or other sources. Here’s one example. Note the suspicious elements. And here’s another, note the similar email address? Others I’ve…
Read MoreRealBasics Recommends: Niamh Arthur’s 4-week Ignite Video Challenge online course
This is a plug for a paid-for online video blogging course. This post includes a direct link and an affiliate link to the course (you can choose either.) I recommend it highly to clients who are interested in a safe, supportive environment for learning how to do video blogging. If you’re not into that you…
Read More“Blogging for one” – tips for writing for your ideal client
“An egotist is someone who wants to talk about themselves instead of about me.” — Ambrose Bierce Since we tend to write alone it’s sometimes hard to remember our readers have their own ideas, intentions, wants and needs. When we forget this we’ll tend to write in terms of our wants, needs, insecurities, and interests. …
Read MoreThree questions every business site should answer, one question every business site should ask…
Every business website needs to communicate three things quickly and clearly to their ideal clients – your value proposition, a reason to believe, and your distinctive difference from your competitors. The more quickly someone gets those three things the sooner they’ll answer your call to action. Value Proposition — you’re worth it! better, faster, less…
Read MoreBlog post comments: threat, menace, or golden opportunity for community building
Cool discussion of the pros and cons of blog comments (with numbers and case studies!) by Brenda Barron, blogging at WPMUDEV It’s exciting when readers of your blog take the time to leave comments on your posts. It’s often what makes the arduous process of creating content feel totally worth it at the end of…
Read MorePrepare and add images to your WordPress website
Here’s our “generic” instructions for preparing an image and adding it to a post or page in your WordPress website. Every website has different requirements and there exceptions to every rule. But for photos especially this is what most people do most of the time. Preparing an image before uploading. Open the image in your favorite photo editor…
Read MoreReport: Suspicious legal cases lead to takedown notices for negative reviews
This might be a bit in the weeds for the average blogger, but Eugene Volokh and Paul Alan Levy, legal-issues bloggers on the Washington Post website, have uncovered an interesting little scam that works like this. 1) A company or individual takes issue with an author’s negative review on Yelp, Google, Facebook, etc. 2) The…
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