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February 23, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
My most popular post in 2014 was on using Twitter hashtags to drive blog traffic. If you are reading this …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, List Posts
| Tags: #1000Speak, #ArchiveDay, #MondayBlogs, #SundayBlogShare, #wwwblogs, blogging, creative practice, social media, Twitter, writing
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February 15, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
The theme for WordSprout’s February’s Story Slam – which I did not perform at – was “Spill the Beans.” This …
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Category: Stories I've Told
| Tags: adoption, dating, family, family life, high school, mixed race children, music, parenting, prejudice, racism, relationships, small towns
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February 8, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I have an early memory as a child of the priest coming to visit our house. A young, handsome priest …
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Category: Memoir, Stories I've Told
| Tags: Catholicism, childhood, Christianity, cross, crucifix, faith, family life, Holy Family, memory, religion, Work in Process
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February 2, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I was looking for a small ugly box of a house. But of course it wasn’t there. If you go …
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Category: History, Memoir
| Tags: Brian "Fox" Ellis, Catholicism, doubt, faith, Mary McCarthy, Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood, religion, Two Chairs Telling, Work in Process
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January 25, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
If you read this blog – and I hope you do – you know I’ve committed to 20 hours of …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: blogging, Brian "Fox" Ellis, Charles Darwin, creative practice, essay, Loft Literary Center, Loren Niemi, lyric essay, Malcolm Gladwell, Patrick Ross, resolutions, storytelling, Two Chairs Telling
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January 19, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Coretta Scott King fought for 15 years after her husband’s assassination to get Martin Luther King Day made a federal …
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Category: History, List Posts
| Tags: assassination, civil rights, Coretta Scott King, feminism, Martin Luther King Day, MLK Day, sexism
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January 12, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
There are a lot of acronyms floating around in the nonprofit universe in which I work. Some of them come …
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Category: Essays, Commentary, Reflection
| Tags: BHAG, Big Hairy Audacious Goal, Built to Last, Buster Keaton, David Allen, Dr. Who, James Collins, Jerry Porras, productivity, Rebecca Merrill, SMART goals, Steven Covey, time management, Toggl, William Bruce Cameron
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January 4, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Because, of course, everyone is already telling you there’s no point, right? 1. Make them for the right reasons. Right …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, List Posts
| Tags: 21 day habit, BHAG, Big Hairy Audacious Goal, Brené Brown, Facebook, family life, foreclosure, Francine Jay, habits, Miss Minimalist, perfectionism, resolutions, Shelley Wilson, The Joy of Less, Twitter
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December 28, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
At the end of 2013, Jason Kottke pronounced the blog legally dead. I was too busy resurrecting my own to …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: 2014, Andrew Sullivan, blogging, Dan Blank, Dylan Byers, Elizabeth Spiers, Grace Bonney, is the blog dead?, Jane Friedman, Jason Kottke, L. L. Barkat, Lockhart Steele, Matthew Sippey, social media, Steff Green, Technorati
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December 15, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Adorning the tubes and wires of the Internet you will find many excellent posts on the importance of knowing your …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, List Posts
| Tags: blog niche, blogging, crosshairs, expertise, metaphor, Patrick Ross, sell out, target audience, William Wordsworth
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