Category Archives: Blogging

Why I read 31 books in 2011

Tweet Exactly one year ago today, I read Arik Hanson’s blog post on the 26 books that he planned to read over the course of the year. It inspired me to give it a whirl and see if I could read that many. When the dust and grime from the books settled, wound up reading…

My top blog posts of 2011

Tweet Last week my friend Janet Aronica passed me along to this new plugin created by her company, Shareaholic to map out the top posts from your blog. While you can find this out from running queries on Google Analytics, the tool doesn’t make shiny graphs for you, so I decided to check it out…

Six WordPress Plugins to Install on your Site Today

Tweet My favorite thing about the WordPress blogging platform is that outside of the backend system, no two blogs operate the same way. This is mostly due to third-party plugins that meet certain requirements that bloggers have. Over the past few years, I ave tried dozens of plugins to accomplish goals for the site. Below…

Are you in a blogging rut?

Tweet Jeff Esposito asked me to write a guest post here on the topic of social media measurement. The following post is not about social media measurement. Yesterday, Tac Anderson wrote a post about an issue I know too well: bloggers’ neglect. As I’ve been going through the list of people I follow on Twitter looking to…