The Life and Death of Blogs
Organizing my Google Reader blog RSS subscriptions this evening, I realized just how many of the blogs I used to read have fallen by the wayside. In one case, the blog’s author died. Another blog fell off the rails when the blogger succumbed to his drug addictions. Most of the blogs just stopped publishing for far [...]
Link Building for Bloggers
The basic principles of link building to improve the SEO and engagement of blogs haven’t changed in years. Create quality content on your blog as link bait. Network through social media. Recruit some guest bloggers who have an incentive to promote blog posts to their circles. And traditional PR methods work, too. Don’t forget to [...]
Hire A Blogger To Write For Your Business
When we first started offering blogger ghostwriting services for our business clients, we sort of assumed it would be mainly a kind of entry-level or transitional service. That is, most businesses who hired us would get us to start writing their company blog, but eventually an in-house employee would take it over. In the meantime, [...]
Are You Going To Northern Voice 2011?
I am. And you probably should, too. The Northern Voice conference happening on May 13 and 14 is about personal blogging and social media. For Vancouver-based writers, visual artists, photographers, videographers and anyone else who uses geeky tools to tell their stories, this is THE conference of the year. Run out of UBC’s Life Sciences [...]
Vancouver Blogger Meetup. We Came, We Drank, We Conversed
A good time was had by all at the latest Vancouver Blogger Meetup yesterday. Looking forward to getting the full review from Jan Karlsberg later. Congratulations to Amanda Farough of the violet Minded design blog, who won two tickets to the Neanderthal Arts Festival running from July 21 to August 1 in Vancouver. (Thanks to [...]
I’m A Blogger In Vancouver. So Are You. Want To Hook Up?
I mean, for beers. Maybe some good conversation about your latest, greatest blog posts, or about creative projects you’ve been busy with. That’s all. I’m married, you know? No funny business. I mean it. You try anything weird, I will rip your face off. See you at the Vancouver Blogger Meetup, people! Looking forward to [...]
Going Beyond the Hype at the Northern Voice Blogger Conference
How cool is this? I’ll be a moderator for Beyond the Hype: Teaching About Social Media and Teaching Using Social Media, a speakers panel at the Northern Voice blogger conference in Vancouver. It’s happening at 1:15 pm on Friday, May 7 at the Life Sciences building on the UBC main campus. Here’s a description of [...]
Blogger Meetup in Vancouver April 28
Do you have a blog for your business or are looking to start a blog for your business in the next little while? If you live in Vancouver and want to meet and learn from some fellow bloggers (for business and non-business websites), you ought to check out the Vancouver Blogger Meetup happening this week. [...]





