There had to be a sequel. Tuesday’s post contained only a few examples of Blogging Awesomeness and I have been receiving tons and tons of hate-mail. Best Friends. I know, this is all to weird for people reading my blog on a regular basis. I mean I am not a real meanie. Sometimes a little, maybe. But when I am mean it’s for a reason. A very valid reason. For me, that is. Don’t agree. This all READ MORE.
Social Networking is just one aspect of Blogging. Depending on why you blog – money, fun or both, you will get to know people that make an impression. They stick to you like honey on a piece of duct tape. I am talking really sticky here. Honey dipped pecan pie toffee fudge. Sticky. I am telling you. Ok so I have said sticky a few times. You know what? It’s not even one of the keywords I am using READ MORE.
You just got to love them, the pencil pushers, the white collar wearing ‘civil servants’ that may or may not grant you something that’s rightfully yours. To begin with. Yours, I said. Yours. Read and weep. January 4th of this year Julie and I got married. We were on a holiday in Florida and on New Years Eve we decided to get married. The original plan was to get married on March 21st 2013 in READ MORE.
According to a recent (January 2013) article in Mashable, Twitter is still the number one social media platform. The number of active users on the microblogging service grew 40% from the second quarter to the fourth quarter of 2012 — equal to 288 million monthly active users, according to Global Web Index, a syndicated market-research service on web behavior and social media. (The index assessed 31 markets, and defines “active” as those who claim to READ MORE.
You are doing it, your competitor is doing it, your blogger friend is doing it and I might do it. I am talking about writing an impressive piece about your blogging and / or marketing tactics. You do it as a service to your readers, to help them and let them in on the secret tactics you follow and what made your blog what it is today. Successful! Time to have a PDF download avaiable on READ MORE.
I have been thinking lately. In itself that’s not too strange, because most people tend to think sometimes. It just popped into my mind, after reading an article about interaction with computers. Hold on. Mouse. Keyboard. Touchscreen and that’s about it. No hanky panky. But now some bright people are researching brain controlled computers. If you remember the old mouse pointing devices, you know, the ones that came with a cord and a mouse – ball, then READ MORE.
Over the last year I have been looking with more than normal interest at some of the key players in (my) blogging world. Every one of the people I have been watching had one thing in common with each other, although – at first sight – there is no direct relationship between them. Or they have been keeping it a secret, so no-one has a clue. Maybe you have the latest gossip on that? Anyways they READ MORE.
It’s estimated that there are almost 1,200,000,000 Internet users that have a Google account and use one or more of Google’s products. Over the years Google has released a humongous number of services and applications or just bought the services from the other networks, like Instagram. If you are using one of Google products, you are storing data on them, by uploading pictures, music, links, chats, mail and a LOT more. And all under the watchful READ MORE.
You are probably a blogger if you are reading this. I mean, how many people write articles and post them on the Internet AND are interested in “YOUR favorite Post”. Maybe you are making a living blogging or maybe you are just doing it for fun – or something in between. There must be a reason why you blog. Just wanting to write, maybe out of vanity? Who knows. The State of The Blogosphere Technorati READ MORE.
The Netherlands, 1961. Back “In them old days, when life was simple and easy”. To put things in perspective: The Second World War ended just 16 years before that, John F. Kennedy succeeded Dwight Eisenhower as the 35th president of the United States, Frank Sinatra forms his own record label (Reprise Records) and Playboy Magazine was only ten years in existence. The Internet was just a “mere twinkle” in the eye of Daddy U.S. Defense and The Andy Griffith Show was on TV READ MORE.