The kind people at WordPress.com have just sent me a link to my ‘Year of Blogging 2011‘. An opportunity to review my activities on my blog, Woman on the Edge of Reality. When I read through them I must admit to be a little disappointed in myself and then I realised that I could easily do better. I haven’t been as active on my blog as I could have been and I have regularly posted about ‘doing better’ or ‘writing more’ and have yet to achieve both of these aims. So why promise something if I’m unable to deliver? (more…)
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The ‘once a week’ blogging challenge
25 JanOkay, I ought to be able to do this, after all I blog for a living – in fact I’ve been writing on one blog every working day of the week since last March (it helps to be able to schedule posts in advance as that way I get a holiday). But … and it’s a big but, I’ve been promising myself and my readers that I’ll blog more regularly since I started Woman on the Edge of Reality in 2006. I can hardly believe it’s that long ago.
So, here’s the challenge to myself, to blog at least once a week, every week for the next twelve months – I figure that ought to be long enough to create a habit. In the meantime, I’m going to cheat a little and back date this particular post to the end of January rather than the start of February as that way I get a head start and a new post to book ..! Okay, so I’m bad, but at least I’m good at being bad 
The art of social organisation …
2 AugI titled this blog post (very loosely) the art of social organisation, not because I’m about to preach on about how everyone can get on the social networking bandwagon and create an amazing organisation for themselves and their businesses (which I do believe they can); but because I needed to get my own social networking (read blogging in particular) under some sort of control. It’s not easy I have to say. Those that know me, will know that I ….. (more…)
The Business Case for WordPress
22 JanI was sent an email earlier this week about an intensive weekend workshop I’m running with a colleague (Steve Graham) on installing, setting up, using and maintaining WordPress software. The email said “Thanks for this. Seems a good thorough programme – certainly we’re interested, however we aren’t sure what the business benefits of wordpress are?“. (more…)
Seminar Sonnet
5 FebOne of the attendees at the seminar on online publishing very kindly wrote a sonnet for me during the day and I present it here for you now. Thanks, Chris!
Amaz’n Linda
I sit again in Linda’s seminar
On how to publish all your work on-line.
I read again the notes I’ve made so far
And find I’ve learned that publishers are swine!
I wonder if self-publishing’s for me
And if I have the sort of skills I need?
Well, as the day goes on perhaps we’ll see.
We’ll learn of all the pitfalls we should heed.
She speaks of ‘Hysterectomies for Men’.
And shows us how to put it on the net.
It goes alright and loads at first but then
It stalls. We lunch and chat with folk we’ve met.
Post prandially it’s there. She talks us through.
I now think I can do it. So can you!
Chris Slade
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