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Sacrificing in the Name of Social Media

Recently, I had a conversation with @thenewsrookie about blogging and social media.  We talked about a lot of things, then somewhere in the conversation I talked about all the things I had quit doing in order to continue blogging and playing around in the space of social media.  His response to this was “sacrificing in [...]

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How Blogging Helped Me Write an RFP

I’ve read lots of posts around the Internet about how blogging will help improve this skill or that skill, and I completely agree with almost all of those posts.  Blogging is a great way to improve your problem solving, writing, marketing, social and all kinds of other skills.  Today, I’m going to take the idea [...]

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How Many Words Are Needed to Make a Good Post

I have wondered the question that is the title of this post for some time.  How many words are needed to make a good post?  I try to make my authors at LostInTechnology have around 500 words in each post. However, I only came to that number, because a site I had previously written for used [...]

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Interview With Marko Saric

With UpYourSocial just launching, I thought it would be great to interview someone that has had an amazingly successful blog launch in the past. The person I’m talking about is Marko Saric. He is the owner of HowToMakeMyBlog and crafted a really fantastic launching strategy for his blog by leveraging guest posting and [...]

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Join the 12for12k Challenge

Not too long ago, I posted about the 12for12k Challenge on LostInTechnology.  I’ve finally made the time to get the information posted on this blog.  The idea for the 12for12k Challenge is simple.  We want to raise $12,000 each month of 2009 for a different charity every month.  The charity for this month is UNICEF. A [...]

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Don’t Just Talk at Your Reader, Make It a Conversation

Up until recently, my blogging experience mainly consisted of tutorials, guides and software reviews.  In these types of posts, you aren’t really starting a conversation you are just telling your readers how to do something. The reason for this lack of conversation starting articles comes from my engineering background where bland writing that tells you how [...]

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