On this day in 1983, the Soviet Union releases a letter that Russian leader Yuri Andropov wrote to Samantha Smith, an American fifth-grader from Manchester, Maine, inviting her to visit his country.
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When writing your resume, avoid overly used cliche words.
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Don’t bury the lead. To construct a proper post, open with a sentence explaining the point lickity-split, then follow it with three supporting ideas, and close by re-stating the lead. When you are done, write a headline that boils it down to a short phrase. Do not stray from this formula, and your blog will be a success.
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Writing for the web is different than writing for books or magazines. A study by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen found that Web surfers “do not actually read: instead, they scan the text.”
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I do a Google search and find Twitter users exceed 200,000 per day, firing out 3 million Tweets – a mind-blowing average of 15 Tweets per Twit. It’s like the invention of the machine gun. No one is safe any more.
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101 Reasons to Stop Writing.com. Miss Applesassy is amused.
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Epic novelist James A. Michener, (books by this author) once said, “I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.”
That is the key to the art of writing: EDIT, EDIT, EDIT.
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Chris Pearson is the designer behind the Thesis Theme, and his work is taking the web by storm. Not only does it make your site look great, but it allows people like me who know next to nothing about html, css, or php codes to actually get in the game and play with the big dogs.
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Blogging Basics
March 10, 2009
in SEO,Uncategorized
Being successful in the blogosphere requires a recipe of several ingredients. First, you need quality content built on a single theme. One you have that, you need readership. This requires community building. People make a lot of mistakes here. Some play Blackhat games and get spammy. Spam is not good. It’s no better than the [...]
Tagged as: better blogging, find readers, Google, improve blog, increase comments, SEO, Social Media, social networking, Top Blog Topics, writing
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