When I talk to beginning bloggers, I’m asked all sorts of questions. One I received this week was what is the difference between tags and categories? The obvious way to answer this is to define both, of course, but beyond that, I want to explain why you need both, how to name them, and how [...]
Blog World Expo: Chris Brogan’s Advice for Beginning Bloggers (#bwe08)
Chris Brogan is one of those bloggers who just really wants everyone to succeed. He’s not only a successful blogger, he’s uncommonly approachable. Before I went to Blog World, I read several of Chris’ posts about attending conferences. In those posts he seemed to genuinely want people to come and meet him. I thought, "Yeah. [...]
Tips for Blogging as a Career
One of my gigs in the past year has been writing a monthly column about blogging at 5 Minutes for Mom. If you don’t know Janice and Susan, the twins behind 5 Minutes for Mom, you are missing out. They are dynamos! One of the things they did this summer at BlogHer08 was to interview [...]



