Planning to write a book? Attend our workshop!

June 27, 2011

Last December Kira Henschel invited me to present on blogging at her publishing workshop. Kira runs HenschelHAUS Publishing, and offers workshops to help people get moving on their book ideas. She asked me to speak on blogging and social media from a how-to perspective. It was a lot of fun, and quite successful too — [...]

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I’m not your spam filter, LLBean

June 15, 2011

I’m running into this more and more, and I’ve decided to start walking away. I’m talking about captchas, those little boxes of nearly impossible to read text that they want you to enter to make sure you’re not a robot. I will put up with it on registration pages for free online services, but if [...]

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Can the Kindle be family friendly?

April 24, 2011

So now we have two Kindles – the K3 I bought, and the K2 my father passed down to my daughters when he just upgraded. Junie B. Jones and The Magic Tree House are available, so my older daughter is happy, but my 4 year old is also enjoying playing (if not exactly reading yet) [...]

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Why did my bounce rate go down?

April 22, 2011

I’m not really that much of a stats junkie, but I do try to keep an eye on what my sites are doing. I noticed this little item in my Analytics, along with a coincident 100% increase in page views: As you can see, my bounce rate has plummeted. I’m not sure if it’s because [...]

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