Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Pay Close Attention to Word Press Wizards
As you already know I love blogging and think every speaker should blog. Part of my learning is knowing more about blogger and wordpress. One of my favorite most concise experts is Cathy> Her handle is the word press wizard. Well, she has just launched an internet radio show. You can hear it as a podcast right here.
Give it a try. Even if you do not understand all of it, listen anyway because it will all begin to make sense once you start doing it.
If you just do not want to learn then just outsource it to Cathy. But whatever you do start blogging now.
Learn, and start blogging!
Your Idea Coach
Rosie
Give it a try. Even if you do not understand all of it, listen anyway because it will all begin to make sense once you start doing it.
If you just do not want to learn then just outsource it to Cathy. But whatever you do start blogging now.
Learn, and start blogging!
Your Idea Coach
Rosie
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Post Often on Your Blog for Good Search Position
Now, I am one to talk. I have not posted in a while. But let me share with you a great story about my husband's blog. We had an old one on blogger but only posted ab out 4 times. Then we took a course with Jeanette Cates called,">Online Success Basics">Online Success Basics
and did a wordpress blog. She advised us to post to it daily for a couple of weeks. Well, that was in May. Now it is July and he has many links in google already!! We are tracking his statistics on the host to find out how long folks stay on the site and which posts they look at.
As a result we are excited about posting information on that blog. One hint is to take about an hour and create a week's worth of posts ahead of time. Now you are serious.
Give it a try for about 30 days. Benchmark where you are with links to google,yahoo, and msn but doing a search on each search engine using the term site:your blog name
So give it a try and email me if you have any questions.
Rosie
PS my hubby's blog is www.hornerartworkshop.com
If you add an "s" to hornerartworkshop you will still get it. I actually got a subdomain and had the host help me to point it to the correct site.
I did this when I found some folks were adding an "s" and then emailing us and saying the site is not working.
Consider the misspellings of your name and get a subdomain or another domain name for it pointing to the main site.
Ok, enough techno babble for now.
and did a wordpress blog. She advised us to post to it daily for a couple of weeks. Well, that was in May. Now it is July and he has many links in google already!! We are tracking his statistics on the host to find out how long folks stay on the site and which posts they look at.
As a result we are excited about posting information on that blog. One hint is to take about an hour and create a week's worth of posts ahead of time. Now you are serious.
Give it a try for about 30 days. Benchmark where you are with links to google,yahoo, and msn but doing a search on each search engine using the term site:your blog name
So give it a try and email me if you have any questions.
Rosie
PS my hubby's blog is www.hornerartworkshop.com
If you add an "s" to hornerartworkshop you will still get it. I actually got a subdomain and had the host help me to point it to the correct site.
I did this when I found some folks were adding an "s" and then emailing us and saying the site is not working.
Consider the misspellings of your name and get a subdomain or another domain name for it pointing to the main site.
Ok, enough techno babble for now.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Practice Saying Thank You
As presenters we can often get so busy with the web of details that we do not stop to thank those who help us weave through the web of details. What I am trying to say is we will often run into situations where we need help. It may be how to do something in PowerPoint or how to get our web site finished when the webmaster is unavailable. OUCH!
But whatever it is let us remember to say thanks.
I am posting a short anecdote I got today from a dear friend. It encourages us to say thank you.
Also, remember to use little anecdotes like this when you are making your presentation points.
A dear friend of mine sent the note below to me. I know it may be circulating on the internet but it talks about something simple like saying “Thank you” when you are helped in an emotional or physical web of any kind.
The Whale
If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle,
you would have read about a female humpback whale
who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps
and lines.
She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farralone Islands (outside the Golden Gate ) and radioed an environmental group for help.
Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her ..
a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.
When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed gently around --- she thanked them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
If you want to get a great set of thank you and encouragement fine art cards go to www.rayhorner.com today. Buy before Aug 31 and get free shipping.
Rosie
But whatever it is let us remember to say thanks.
I am posting a short anecdote I got today from a dear friend. It encourages us to say thank you.
Also, remember to use little anecdotes like this when you are making your presentation points.
A dear friend of mine sent the note below to me. I know it may be circulating on the internet but it talks about something simple like saying “Thank you” when you are helped in an emotional or physical web of any kind.
The Whale
If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle,
you would have read about a female humpback whale
who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps
and lines.
She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farralone Islands (outside the Golden Gate ) and radioed an environmental group for help.
Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her ..
a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.
When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed gently around --- she thanked them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
If you want to get a great set of thank you and encouragement fine art cards go to www.rayhorner.com today. Buy before Aug 31 and get free shipping.
Rosie
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