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I’ve heard a lot about Digg and its benefits to writers but never visited the site until today. Digg is a social media site displaying blogs and articles about a wide variety of topics e.g. lifestyle, sport, technology and many more. Digg itself doesn’t decide what is popular, this is all done by users votes (or Diggs). The … Continue reading
To mark the milestone of my 200th blog on my daily My Writing Challenge I thought I’d show you something a little different. Did you know that The Free Dictionary (by Farlex) is more than just a dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia? The link above will take you to their home page which has a whole range of information and … Continue reading
I have recently learnt that StumbleUpon is a great tool for writers. Brian Halligan Darmesh Shah (authors of an audio book I am listening to called Inbound Marketing) describe StumbleUpon as a free social discovery site “helping you discover content that you might like”. It has over 7 million registered users and is well-known for showing you the best that is on the … Continue reading
It’s been suggested to me three times over the last few weeks (by word of mouth, from my online writing course and when listening to an audio book) that creating a LinkedIn Account could benefit me as a writer. So, taking that as a sign I have set up an account today and although I am very … Continue reading
This morning I was listening to Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah’s audio CD called Inbound Marketing and I am excited to tell you about one of their suggested tools, which is ‘Website Grader’ by HubSpot. It is a useful free tool which can show you how your website grades. It also identifies SEO problems and how popular you on the social media side. The process is … Continue reading
I see cooking as a bit of a chore whereas I have a passion for writing. Today I have realised that combining the two, has created something so powerful that I am going to keep a notebook and pen in my kitchen cupboard from now on. This is going to be very productive multi-tasking. I usually do have inspirational … Continue reading
If you have a Twitter account and follow hundreds of people, it becomes an unmanageable task of viewing all the tweets from those you are following in your timeline – they pop up every second, all day long! I just do a quick scan down my timeline now and again and read (and sometimes retweet) … Continue reading
I decided that today was going to be the day that I learnt how to add a free online Flickr image to my blog. Before going straight to the Flickr website, I typed in ‘Free blog photos’ in Google which brought back 995 million results. The article that caught my eye was called Top 6 Sites to Find … Continue reading
Since my post on 3 November (Note 187: How Writers Can Get More Followers on Twitter) I have managed to get an handful of additional followers. Although there is probably nothing wrong with adding 80 or so people that I hadn’t chosen to follow individually, I felt a little uncomfortable with the process, so (being a goody goody) I decided … Continue reading
A work colleague emailed me today with this scenario: ‘In doing so’ versus ‘In so doing’ – which is better or grammatically correct? Or is it the use of old fashioned language to use the latter? Before researching, my immediate thought was that ‘in doing so’ sounds better, but after a quick glance at some forums both … Continue reading
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