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Crafting Your Content
2007-09-02 08:58:00 Photography: Jeurgen welding by scjody In the month or so since I started writing on this topic I must have seen upwards of fifty articles on how to achieve social media success. A number of elaborate strategies have been devised across the blogosphere: the inexplicable magnetism of list posts, the fine art of constructing Diggbait, and ... More About: Content , Crafting , Tent
Crafting Your Content
2007-09-02 08:58:00 Photography: Jeurgen welding by scjody In the month or so since I started writing on this topic I must have seen upwards of fifty articles on how to achieve social media success. A number of elaborate strategies have been devised across the blogosphere: the inexplicable magnetism of list posts, the fine art of constructing Diggbait, and ... More About: Content , Crafting , Tent
Weekly Swipe file
2007-09-02 01:49:00 Photography: Filing cabinet by alexstaubo This week’s Swipe file contains 9 items. How to Disagree and Persuade Without Offending How to Write a Book: The Short, Honest Truth Getting Things Done TiddlyWiki 100 Websites You Should Know and Use Jakob Nielson on Web Usability Creative Thinking Hacks The Tumblr Radar Minimalism Isn?t so Minimal If you’re interested, I’ve also written two articles over at Daily ... More About: File , Weekly
Weekly Swipe file
2007-09-02 01:49:00 Photography: Filing cabinet by alexstaubo In this week’s swipe file I’ve decided to explore providing links with an element of surprise. I’ve discussed before that one of StumbleUpon’s main selling points is that it surprises users with unpredictable but relevant links. While StumbleUpon’s relevance is ensured by an active user community, the relevance of these links ... More About: File , Weekly
A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Website
2007-08-31 05:31:00 If you’ve been following this blog for a while you’ll know that I’m a big fan of simplicity, usability and removing web clutter. I recently read A Guid e to Creating a Minimalist Home at Zen Habits and it had quite an effect on me — and others too, if 2399 Diggs are anything to go by. ... More About: Website , Features
A Guide to Creating a Minimalist Website
2007-08-31 05:31:00 If you’ve been following this blog for a while you’ll know that I’m a big fan of simplicity, usability and removing web clutter. I recently read A Guid e to Creating a Minimalist Home at Zen Habits and it had quite an effect on me — and others too, if 2399 Diggs are anything to go by. ... More About: Website , Features
Aggregating You
2007-08-30 12:49:00 Steve Rubel discusses the way in which our online identities are fragmented in the web 2.0 world. You might be creating and sharing content on various blogs, forums, on Twitter, on Stumble Upon, Digg, Jaiku, the list could go on. It can be confusing to keep track of it, and more confusing for others who’re ... More About: General , Greg
Aggregating You
2007-08-30 12:49:00 Steve Rubel discusses the way in which our online identities are fragmented in the web 2.0 world. You might be creating and sharing content on various blogs, forums, on Twitter, on Stumble Upon, Digg, Jaiku, the list could go on. It can be confusing to keep track of it, and more confusing for others who’re ... More About: General , Greg
Writing Dirty
2007-08-29 05:11:00 Photography: dirty hands by y ordan There is an argument to say that, in the realm of the printed word, what is written is not as important as who writes it. When it comes to web content, however, most people write as if the rule doesn’t transfer — as if the web is the realm of ... More About: Writing , Dirty
On Getting Noticed
2007-08-27 06:10:00 Photography: Standing out by fabbio [modified] I recently read an excellent article by Ankesh Kothari on getting others to talk about you. His key points are as follows: do something worthy of talking about, make more friends by self-disclosing, provide tools to help others talk about you, and reward people when they promote you. I’d like to ...
What Works: More Link Stuff
2007-08-27 04:04:00 Just a quick addendum to an earlier post, Rethinking Link s, where I discussed new ways to handle link ’round-up’ content. Courtesy of ScottBerkun.com comes TrueHoop Tuesday Bullets at ESPN.com. This format uses bullet points to discuss ideas and events while working the links into the coverage. I particularly like this method because it focuses mainly ... More About: Stuff , Works
One Month of Skelliewag
2007-08-26 05:12:00 This blog welcomed readers on the 26th July, and a month has passed since then. I thought I’d take the opportunity to reflect on the content so far and ask you a few questions about where you’d like to see Skelliewag go from here. When it was quiet Like most blogs Skelliewag was a pretty quiet place ... More About: General , Month , Kell , Mont
Weekly Swipe file
2007-08-24 03:53:00 Photography: Filing cabinet by alexstaubo This week’s swipe file contains ten links that captured my attention during the week. I’ll be experimenting with one of the formats suggested in my earlier Rethinking Links post, and I’m interested to know what you think of it. The links for each week are all stored in the Skelliewag tumblelog. Quotes “Search ... More About: File , Weekly
How to Create and Publish Your Own eBook With a $0 Budget
2007-08-22 08:30:00 Photography: Antique Printing Press by DaddyNewt eBooks are books or pamphlets in a digital format. They’re a unique form of web content because they’re inherently portable. An eBook can be shared and spread far beyond your web presence. There are a number of ways bloggers, webmasters or any web user can leverage an eBook to achieve a ... More About: Ebook , Publish , Budget , Create
Don?t Settle for Scannable: Write Gripping Content
2007-08-21 05:22:00 Photography: Arm wrestling in Bricklane II by fabbio One of the most common pieces of web writing advice you’ll hear is keep it short. People aren’t interested in reading web writing, the most they’ll do is scan it (or so we’re told). Rarely do you hear the suggestion made that readers could be encouraged to do ... More About: Write , Content , Settle , Tent
Rethinking Links
2007-08-20 03:38:00 Image source. Aggregating links to content by other authors has been a staple item on the web content diet for years. Unfortunately, it’s an area almost completely devoid of innovation. Links are returned like results from an intelligent search-engine: a title, a description, a recommendation — as if things couldn’t be done any other way. In this ...
How to Pick Your Niche Wisely
2007-08-19 05:49:00 Photography: Different Shadows by gizax From birth to death, in so many places — at school, at work, in the street — we’re told that to be different is wrong. It’s no surprise, then, that many of us are afraid to be different when it comes to writing web content. Most fall into one of two ... More About: Pick , Niche
Steal This Idea: Survival Tips Blog
2007-08-18 15:11:00 A few months ago I caught a resource on Lifehacker that particularly caught my attention: a simple .PDF first-aid guide. I read it from start to finish — not because I do anything particularly dangerous in my day-to-day life but really just in case. It’s that just in case factor which has the potential, I think, ... More About: Tips , Blog , Idea , Steal , Survival
Building Superheroes
2007-08-17 16:15:00 Photography: surfing lesson by kevinzim. In this post I want to suggest an innovative new framework for developing tips, tutorials, guides, lessons and other kinds of advice writing. I call this the ‘Building Superheroes ’ approach. At its best, it will help you work out what to write, how to write it, and for whom. Superheroes? Readers love ...
Weekly Swipe file
2007-08-16 15:16:00 Photography: Filing cabinet by alexstaubo This week’s swipe file is going to be a little less organized than usual. It contains ten links of interest, five posts I’ve done elsewhere, and the celebration of a milestone or two for Skelliewag. Some reflections on guest-posting My guest-posting escapades started with an open offer on the Authority Blogger Forums to ... More About: File , Weekly
50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog
2007-08-15 05:27:00 Photography: morning clutter by mary_gaston22 Tied to the internet productivity movement is the internet uncluttering movement. There are a slew of new websites dedicated to helping you unclutter your home, your work and your life. I want to contribute to this movement with a manifesto for defeating blog clutter. Blog clutter is the stuff your readers really ... More About: Tips , Clutter
Hansel and Gretel Link-building
2007-08-12 07:55:00 Photography: The Sun Sets on Château de Chillon by Pear Biter Most of us are familiar with the old fairy tale, Hans el and Gretel. Two children overhear their parents planning to abandon them. They prepare a pouch of white pebbles and, when taken deep into the forest, leave a trail of pebbles leading back to their ... More About: Building , Link Building , Features , Link
Executing Great Interviews
2007-08-12 03:28:00 Photography: Paste Party - Interview 12 by Oscalito In the first part of this mini post-series I offered tips on getting great interviews. This week, we’ll look at how to execute them. Any interview, regardless of the profile of the interviewed person, can be dead boring if the wrong questions are asked, or in the wrong way. ... More About: Interviews , General , Features , Great
Mastering the Anecdote
2007-08-11 05:19:00 Photography: conversation by Rebecca Key Anecdotes can be both signature content and a powerful means to prove or illustrate a point. They’re also one of trickiest writing elements to do well, and an ill-suited, over-long or badly placed anecdote is probably the single greatest killer of otherwise solid content. The tips in this post should help ensure ... More About: Teri , The A , Mast , Erin , Aster
10 Steps to Building a Killer Feed Collection
2007-08-10 03:52:00 Photography: On the platform, reading by moriza A webmaster or blogger’s feed collection should be quite different to the kind of collection readers will build. If you’re reading only (or mainly) sites in your niche, subscribing to only your favorite content, and spending more time writing than you are reading, then you’re simply not getting the ... More About: Building , Killer , Feed , Coll , Steps
Weekly Swipe file
2007-08-09 11:06:00 Photography: Filing cabinet by alexstaubo The Swipe file is an opportunity for me to share great web ideas I’ve encountered during the week, and to explain how these ideas could be used as inspiration for our own content. This week’s Swipe file contains five items. Two of them are great reads, and three of them feature some ... More About: File , Weekly
Critique Your Design
2007-08-08 02:21:00 Photography: Being different by dao hodac Your website or blog’s design is important. It’s the medium your readers use to interact with and consume what you create. Most of all, it represents an opportunity: to draw readers into your content by presenting it as clearly and functionally as possible. That’s all well and good, but a more ... More About: Design , Critique , Crit
?Can I see some credentials, please??
2007-08-06 05:57:00 Photography: Expert Ability by Joe Shlabotnik Every blog or website should have an easily accessible ‘About’ page. What’s often over-looked is that an ‘About’ page is only a means to an end: establishing credibility. The most important factor to consider when writing an ‘About’ page is that you show you’re an expert on the topics you write ... More About: Ease , Credential , Rede , Some
Getting Great Interviews
2007-08-05 10:27:00 Photography: Cairo dumping grounds by Ahron de Leeuw In my time I’ve interviewed many different types of people. None of them were particularly famous, but all of them were interesting. Interviews are one of the most under-utilized forms of content, and both bloggers and webmasters are guilty of overlooking it. Most people assume that they’ll never be ... More About: General , Features , Great
What Works: Boing Boing
More articles from this author:2007-08-05 07:02:00 This week I want to take a look at Boing Boing , one of the most popular and profitable blogs in the world, and work out what makes it tick. I’ll be discussing the content elements which have helped make Boing Boing so popular, and most importantly, explain ways we can adapt these strategies to our own ... More About: Features , Works 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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