This is the Third in a Series of Topical Summaries about BlogHer 12 in New York Blogging about blogging may be a bit less of the navel gazer recursive exercise than it would at first glance seem to be. The publication industry is changing, and that change is strikingly apparent when I look back over […]
Familiar Face Summary of BlogHer 12
While not the be all and end all of BlogHer, the personal connections made at BlogHer, and retained from conference to conference, and grown between conferences provide a positive anchor within the network for me. This point was well illustrated for me yesterday when @flexhourjobs, aka Jacqueline Sloboda, tweeted: “Great to see another familiar face […]
Retro Nuevo Pointillism on the Way to BlogHer12
I’m currently sitting in the members lounge at AIC for a brief respite while enjoying some good coffee before I return to my attempt to visit all my favorite paintings, artists and areas. I’ve sighed at haystacks, marveled at Seurrat and smiled at the thought of my husband’s obsession with Bernadette Peters while thinking of […]
Thoughts on Women, Politics, Dress as I Travel to BlogHer 12
“Time makes more converts than reason” says Thomas Paine early on in Common Sense, which I tried to read this morning while waiting for the train in Minneapolis. I was tired and there were so many distractions that I did not get very far into the work, but I have always wanted to read the […]
How To Build A Following
Follow, friend, retweet, link, circles, networks…. It gets confusing, doesn’t it? I get confused and off track all the time. But I also get back on track all the time. These following five subjects are what I’ve gleaned from tons of research on having a successful blog. Follow along with me to see if they […]
Today Is All About Business, Well Mostly…
I spent the weekend on politics, on both doing and writing. So today is a get stuff done day. I am so freaking far behind that I may have a serious breakdown if I don’t make some progress. Fortunately I have very low standards and what counts as progress is defined most generously. That is a trick I learned while being a mother.