The Art of Storytelling

March 31, 2011

When I graduated from college in 2006 and set out to pursue a reporting career, I wasn’t deterred by the fact that very few people pick up a newspaper anymore and that the ones who do won’t be around in 20 or 30 years. Whether it’s published on news print or online, good reporters — [...]

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Five Reasons You Need to Stop with the Passive-Aggressive Tweeting Already

March 29, 2011

Today’s very important Hollaback PSA includes some terms with which you may or may not be familiar. So let’s go ahead and start off with a vocabulary exercise, shall we? passive-aggressive (adjective): being, marked by, or displaying behavior characterized by the expression of negative feelings, resentment, and aggression in an unassertive passive way. tweet (noun): [...]

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Blogging for Good: Social Media as a Tool for Diasaster Relief

March 28, 2011

On March 11, I was running on the treadmill while watching the morning news when the headlines of the tsunami in Japan flashed. I felt completely lost on what to do or how to help. My bitching about dragging myself out of bed to exercise that morning seemed trivial and stupid. Sometimes, I feel like [...]

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How to Ask Your Readers to Vote for You Without Annoying Them

March 24, 2011

If you’ve been hanging around the blog world long enough, you’ve probably noticed that there are lots of things to vote on. Companies know that the best way to get exposure for their brand and simultaneously get a popular blogger to represent them is to get lots and lots of people to vote on their [...]

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Media Mishaps: Fad Dieting — Plead the Fifth or Full Disclosure?

March 21, 2011
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Whether it’s the cabbage soup diet (I cringe to picture what one’s urine smells like from that) or the grapefruit diet or Snooki’s cookies or low carb or the no carbs left behind diet plan, fad diets have always held a prominent spot in the media and, like the Biebs, don’t seem to be disappearing [...]

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Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm — Just Spell It Right

March 11, 2011

Here at Hollaback Health, we are ALL about expressing your enthusiasm. We love it when bloggers are excited about what they’re telling us. We relish being surprised (and seeing you get surprised) in your posts, and we want to get on the rooftop and holla along when you celebrate your health successes, fitness triumphs, and [...]

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Shed New Light on Your Blog Photos

March 9, 2011

I am not a great photographer. Most of what I’ve learned has come from Googling my DSLR and playing with buttons. However, you may have noticed that some blogs out there have professional-grade photography and this has created a lot of pressure to invest in fancy cameras, lenses, and photography equipment. Bloggers have even hosted [...]

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Blog Rollin’ With My Homies

March 7, 2011

The first time I created a blog roll, it took me less than ten minutes to get it up and running. I gave a shout out to so many different names, it’d make your head spin. I had everyone on that thing. Seriously. If the Pope had a blog at the time, he would’ve been [...]

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Five Ways to Improve Your Recipe Posts

March 1, 2011

One of the reasons I started reading blogs was for the recipes. I needed ideas to help me go from the Weight Watcher recipes that I always ate to the vegetarian dishes I wanted to fuel distance running. I was too broke to buy every cookbook and health book out there, so I turned to [...]

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The #1 Question You Should Ask Before You Accept Swag

February 28, 2011

Whether it’s a condiment or an app, I love talking about stuff on my blog. Buying and trying lots of stuff so you don’t have to is part of what my blog is all about. Realizing this, companies want me to talk about their stuff. I get lots of e-mails from bubbly PR girls telling [...]

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