I’m farewelling an old friend today and indulging in a little trip down blogging memory lane. Vale the blog Thinking Home Business. After various experiments, it was my first “real” blog, Born Jan 5, 2005. Disappearing just shy of its 16th birthday. Why the “Thinking” part of the blog name? Two reasons. First, even back…
There was no point in time where I decided to take a break from blogging. But I was shocked the other day to see how long it had been since I had blogged. On my Thinking Home Business site, it’s been about 18 months since I’ve done a “real” post. And on this Des Walsh…
It’s common for people claiming to be experts on blogging to say that we should aim for a readability level no higher than 7 or 8, i.e. a reading age level in the 12-14 year old range. I tested some of my blog posts, over a span of five years, and a static page, and I share the results in this post.
How I created a video from a blog post, using the Lumen5 video production platform, with mention of the current free pricing, and the Facebook user group, plus an invitation to other users to share links.
I’ve known for a while that not only was I not blogging so much but I’d actually mislaid or lost my earlier passion for blogging. In this post I talk about factors that turned what had been enjoyable into a chore, factors including too many “rules” for blogging. And how I decided to throw caution to the wind and post about whatever I wanted to post about and how I would do that.