The Health Bloggers' Blog
If you’ve been on Twitter in the past two hours, you’ve most certainly seen the discussion (uh, outrage) about the article in the November Marie Claire, “The Hunger Diaries.” The article was scanned and linked to by Chelsea at Strawberry Sweat, and I highly recommend you read it. (Updated: Chelsea has removed the article for [...]
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I recently came across an interesting blog post that introduced me to Zemanta. It’s a feature built-in to WordPress that makes adding photos, tags, and links a lot easier! Here’s a video showing how it works. Check it out! You might find it’s worth using to streamline your blogging process a little bit and make [...]
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We’ve talked about copyblogging vs. inspiration before, but the topic is once again on everyone’s minds after I posted my latest rule Don’t Be a Sea Witch. In that post, I gave a pretty honest account of how it feels when someone takes your voice and plagiarizes you, which happened to me. I wrote it [...]
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Good Friday afternoon! We’ve had quite a week behind the scenes at Hollaback, and I’m both exhausted and exhilarated by what’s going to come from all of it. First, we had a three-day discussion about blogging and plagiarism. It happened to me this week, and there was no mistaking it. I was furious and, being [...]
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Last week, Mashable reported that the city of Philadelphia has a tax code on activities that are done for profit — and that extends to bloggers. “The city of Philadelphia’s Business Tax Privilege requires residents to pay a privilege license for a one-time fee of $300, or $50 annually, in addition to a percentage of [...]
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One of the things I do at my current job as a social media & marketing assistant is find bloggers in my company’s niche to reach out to. After all, I know bloggers are all a bunch of discount/free product/try this/fame whores, and now I’m that marketing person who is emailing you to see if [...]
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Missy talked this week about breaking up with Google Reader, but I suggest you keep it (or get it) and subscribe to one blog and one blog only: your own. The fact is, tons of people use Google Reader, even if you don’t. I ignored this for a while, but then I’d sometimes get comments [...]
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You may not be aware that linking affects your blog’s rank in Google and other search engines (and you might not care) but it does. (And you should.) In a great Health Blog Helper post Are Your Links Causing Leaks?, Matt writes: It’s useful to think of your blog as a bucket, and your search [...]
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This past week, I had an interesting blogging experience because, well, I jetted off to Texas for a week-long datecation with a guy I’d never met. I had hoped it wouldn’t be a big deal but when I casually mentioned this on my blog it sort of blew up and my readers wanted to know [...]
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I’ve already talked about my love for Seth Godin, so it’s not surprising that a recent blog post of his got me thinking! He wrote: What are you, what do you want to be? When you’re being your best self at your job, what are you doing? Here’s a partial list: Hunter — tracking prey, [...]
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