The Health Bloggers' Blog
When you write a post do you think about how that post will fit within your meta-narrative? No? Not even a little? You don’t even know if your blog has a meta-narrative? Then…we need to talk. Pull up a chair and grab your bowl of oatmeal. Today, we’re going to talk about the meaning of [...]
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Whether your blog is the way you earn a living or just your weight loss journal, there is one thing you can do that can improve it significantly: Read your own blog. Sure, we all read our posts to make sure there are no obvious spelling mistakes and that the pictures are all formatted how [...]
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Chances are, when you first started your blog, it took you roughly an hour to create your “About” page. You might have agonized over it for a short period of time before finally saying “eff it,” and just putting some slightly truncated life-story up there. If you’re a healthy living blogger, I can only assume [...]
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When I read some of the comments posted and other blog posts about The Hunger Diaries, I kept coming across the same statement. “It’s not the blogger’s fault; it’s the reader’s responsibility.” The Hollaback Girls disagree. Yes, we should all be adults and make our own decisions. But the fact is, we write our blogs, [...]
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Have you ever sat down to think about why you really blog? Ever wonder if there is a psychological basis behind your blogging? We all have a purpose, and a voice. But the psychology of blogging is more about why we have chosen that purpose or voice. Creativity. Instead of painting a picture, we post [...]
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One of my blogging goals is to always have fresh entertaining content. I get tired of reading paragraph after paragraph while my brain just seems to scream, “No! Stop reading these boring sentences!” But…how do you create the content that people want to keep reading? 1. Think about what kind of blogger you are. Then [...]
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One of my most defining qualities is something you rarely see on my blog: I am actually an engineer. (Yes, I’m good in science and math. No, I will not fix your computer.) I may not look like a stereotypical engineer — for one, I’m female! — but how I think, learn, and communicate is [...]
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When it comes to blogging, it definitely helps to have a niche. It gives you parameters for your content and also for the audience you’re seeking. Since you’re reading this, it’s pretty likely that you are either a healthy living blogger or you enjoy reading blogs of that nature. That’s your niche, or at least [...]
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What do you like most about your favorite bloggers? What sets them apart from the rest of the blogosphere? Even if you tend to read more vegan blogs or more running blogs or more strength-training blogs, I doubt they are all alike. I doubt they drone on in a “See Kat eat. Kat eats food. [...]
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Who is Your Perfect Reader?
by Rachel on June 3, 2010 · 8 comments
When I was a college sorority girl, I led my chapter’s recruitment for a year. I led tons of workshops about how we could be better at getting the girls we loved to really want to join our house and not one of the 11 others. And I realized this week that trying to get [...]
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