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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
There are two online dictionaries that I have found useful when trying to work out how to pronounce something. Howjsay.com is “a free online dictionary of English pronunciation” with 151,299 entries (as at the time of writing). After you’ve typed in your word, it appears in pink – you then hover your mouse over the word and an … Continue reading
Tiny Online has a section on their website called ‘unusual words’. The one that caught my eye today was ‘autohagiography’ which is a rarely used words meaning “one who speaks and writes in a smug fashion about their own life and accomplishments”. World Wide Words (a site by writer Michael Quinion) say that: “The first use of it I can trace … Continue reading
Having been at my cousin’s wedding all day in London, I knew that it was going to be tricky to find a writing tip to blog about – until halfway through the church service when my family turned to me and asked what arrhae meant. After googling it later, I’ve discovered that it means unity coins … Continue reading
Being mainly a non-fiction writer, I have never felt the need to watch people and write down valuable thoughts that I can use in my writing pieces….until today. Earlier on I was sent a link on Twitter which led me to an article by Cindy Huff called “How People-Watching Makes You a Better Writer” (source: Write It Sideways website … Continue reading
My Writing Notebook 