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September 27, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
In January, as people are wont to do, I set a reach goal for the year. To spend an average …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: blogging, creative practice, creativity, goals, perfectionism, social media, Twitter
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March 23, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
This is my final post in what has become a series on how bloggers use hashtag days on Twitter. The …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: #hashtags, 2015 hashtag survey, blogging, communities of practice, Dunbar's Number, social media, Twitter, writing
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March 16, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Thanks to the 189 bloggers who took my 2015 Blog Hashtag Day Survey. They were all very enthusiastic. You can read …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, List Posts
| Tags: #ArchiveDay, #MondayBlogs, #SundayBlogShare, #wwwblogs, audience growth, blogging, social media, Twitter
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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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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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November 23, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Last week I published the most popular blog post I’ve written to date. It was not a searingly honest or …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: #hashtags, blog titles, blogging, day jobs, Loft Literary Center, memes, Patrick Ross, search engine optimization, social media, thankful, Thanksgiving
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November 16, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
You have a blog. You have a Twitter account. You automatically tweet a link to each new blog post every …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: #ArchiveDay, #hashtags, #MondayBlogs, #SundayBlogShare, #wwwblogs, Alice P. Sheldon, blog traffic, blogging, Doris Lessing, Hootsuite, James Tiptree, memes, needle in a haystack, Rachel Thompson, social media, Sven Sachsalber, Twitter, Vicki Charles, women writers
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October 6, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
After my post “Blogligations,” in which I expressed discomfort with blog awards, I scoured the internet for blog award policies, …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media, List Posts
| Tags: award free blog, award policy, awards, blogging, blogligations, chain letters, recognition, social media, writing
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September 29, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Twitter is a great place to find other writers. It can be a good place to find readers, too. And …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: audience development, Bacon Number, blogging, communities of practice, Dunbar's Number, reciprocity, relationships, small world theory, social media, social network theory, writing
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September 21, 2014 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I am grateful for any and all attention this blog receives. Even though on a very essential level I write …
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Category: Blogging and Social Media
| Tags: #ArchiveDay, #MondayBlogs, #wwwblogs, award free blog, award policy, awards, blog hops, blogging, blogligations, chain letters, freshly pressed, Liebster Award, One Lovely Blogger Award, overwhelm, recognition, social media, storytellers who blog, tagging, Versatile Blogger Award, Very Inspirational Blogger Award, writing process