Many of us would like to create a website with good content, a faithful following, and who knows, maybe make some money. Yet in the face of millions of blogs, how can we ever hope to attract and keep loyal listeners? [click to continue…]

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BSC Bloggers United Network – 1st Meeting

by Lindsey on February 26, 2010

The meeting was conducted from 2-4PM on Friday at the Business Success Center (the BSC in the group name) with attendees representing many parts of the business world – finance, art, consulting, training, etc.

Nine people showed up and discussed their blogs, blogging efforts, and asked very interesting questions. This not be an attempt at answering those questions but will be a teaser to those of you who did not attend which will perhaps bring you out to the next meeting. [click to continue…]

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MEETUPS – PODCASTING – EXPLORING NEW MEDIA: THESIS THEME

February 2, 2010

EXPLORINGNEWMEDIA.COM
PODCASTING MEETUP
EXPLORING NEW MEDIA – THESIS THEME
Interested in attending either of these meetings? Give me a comment below or an email at lindsey@exploringnewmedia.com

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Thesis Theme at the Exploring New Media February Meetup

February 1, 2010

On February 18th, at 2pm, I will be talking about my experiences with Thesis Theme. If you would like to attend this meeting, leave your contact information as a comment to this post and I will contact you.
I am creating the Pro Comedy Training web site now for Dr. Dan French using Thesis Theme.  It [...]

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Struggling Entrepreneur and Emerging Podcaster

February 1, 2010

I had the good fortune today to be interviewed by Fred Castaneda, podcaster extraordinaire for his website/blog The Struggling Entrepreneur.  Fred has been interviewing entrepreneurs for a number of years and I feel honored to be included in this group of highly successful, highly motivated  people.
Of course, my interview may have been caused by my [...]

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Great Customer Service from Gabfire Themes

January 28, 2010

When great customer service happens, I’m always surprised … and delighted.
Several days ago, I purchased a WordPress theme from Gabfire Themes  to help me create an online newsletter. The demo looked good, the price was right, reviews were good.
But…it didn’t work for me. No matter how I tried to get it to serve my purpose, [...]

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Etiquette in blogging and social media

January 27, 2010

Today, I am meeting for the first time with my secret cabal. Can’t tell you who they are or where we meet. After all, it is a SECRET.CABAL.
We are discussing what might be construed as spam when notifying people about our new posts. Some people ascribe to the practice of using a “blast” method of [...]

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Great Customer Service from ADT

January 22, 2010

I needed to update my home security service and decided to continue with ADT. Jesse Keenan arrived at my home, on time, well-dressed, polite, and genuinely friendly.

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Twitter me this!

January 21, 2010

The January monthly meeting of Exploring New Media started off 2010 with a … tweet!  We discussed Twitter in terms of its beginning, how it is used (and misused), how to get and set up an account, how to delete tweets, and just hinted at 3rd party Twitter apps and marketing uses.
BTW, some excellent Twitter [...]

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But what can I blog about?

January 19, 2010

Originally published on 11/07/09
Someone asked me this question the other day. She said she wanted to blog but didn’t have anything interesting to say. I suggested that she make a list of 50 things about herself, pick the 3 most interesting and take a whirl at them.
We parted ways and that night I started [...]

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