Two more days to Christmas, are you excited? Or are you still running around like a headless chicken searching for that elusive gift? Whatever the case, make sure you apply those tips I’ve given on How to Survive the holiday season, I’m sure it will come in handy for you. This Christmas edition of The Week In Review will be the last weekly review of this year, it will be back in 2008, with a more catchy title. There are some exciting changes to look forward to, and I’ll let you find it out for yourself.
Holidays are suppose to be filled with lots of merry making fun, family love, and lots of drinks and delicious foods. One can get easily tempted to over indulge and load up our plates with tons of holiday fares. If the thought of getting out of shape from all those indulgance dampens you, here are 5 easy ways to MAINTAIN weight during the holidays! Follow those easy rules and thank Pearl of Interesting Observations for her tips.
Have you ever wondered why the number three is so pervasive in children’s stories and/or fairy tales? The three little pigs, the three blind mice, Goldilocks and the three bears, the Three Musketeers, the three wise men and the Three Stooges, all contains the number three. According to Brian Clark, three is simply a magic number when it comes to pleasing the human brain. Use the rule of three when crafting your content, and you’ll likely end up with a more engaging outcome. If at first you don’t succeed, remember-the third time’s the charm.
Since I’m a fast learner and is implementing the rule of three in this post, this shall be the last bullet point. I have specially reserve this bullet point for a very talented blogger who I thought wrote the best Christmas season blog post of the year! He is none other than Mark of MeAndMyDrum whose post Twas My Blog Before Christmas is the most creative post I’ve read on blogs this year.
With this 3 post recommendations, I’ll leave you to enjoy them as well as wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas!
It’s that time of the year where most of us reflect back on the past year and make plans and resolutions for the New Year. Most of us recognize the importance of goal setting in our lives, our careers, and of course, our blogs. But I believe not all of us set ourselves blogging goals, I must admit I didn’t set any for this blog in 2007, at least not on paper.Along came a group writing project from Daily Blog Tipsfor setting blogging goals for 2008, and this is as good a time as any for me to set this blog some realistic and measurable goals, which I would be accountable for.
Hello everyone! Welcome to this exclusive screenings of two of my favorite holiday movies. It’s been one fun year of blogging, but not without the sweat and toil that accompanied as part of the deal. Most importantly, I’ve made many global friends through blogging, we all came from diverse cultures, and some are experts in their own rights. But the Internet not only shrunk the world into a global village, but also levelled the playing field. Relationships were formed, deals transacted, and individual thoughts opinionated, all with the clicks of a mouse. If the sword is indeed mightier than the pen, then in this Internet Age, the mighty Mouse will rule the world.
I want to cap off an amazing year by holding this holiday movie theme party to share with all my readers and fellow friends. Please enjoy yourself, go ahead, make lots of noises, and do invite your friends over to this party! Without further ado, let’s get the shows on the road. Read the rest of this entry »
This article is part of How2Blogger’s Super Sexy Holiday ‘How To’ Contestwhich you can see at How2Blogger’s ‘How To’ site.
Wearing the many hats of a blogger is tough at the best of times. It can be even more challenging balancing the additional demands of family, work, and holiday events, and still maintain the sanity to churn out quality content during this period. If unprepared, one can easily get caught in a relentless cycle - finishing each day with more tasks piled up and incomplete than when you started in the morning.
Whether you are earning a living online running various websites, doing freelance writing, or just blogging for fun, here are 6 holiday survival tips to help you cope with your blogging venture, stay healthy, energized and focused and still have fun during this holiday season.
Another week had past us by and we are another week closer to Christmas. Many of you must have been busy drawing up that wishlist or thinking what gift to give to whom, and also running around getting all those shopping done in time. I doubt you had time to cruise around the blogosphere as you normally would, so here I am, bringing you another edition of the best finds of the past week.
Just how many of us aspiring pro blogger wannabe can earn a living online by blogging full-time? The reality is, most of us have a day job, family to take care of, children to worry about and a thousand other things running through our minds each day. At the end of a workday, when we finally find an extra hour and plonk ourselves down in front of the computer to churn out some great content, all we see is blinking cursor after blinking cursor. Does this scenario sound familiar to you? Our life’s distractions can be quite a hurdle to overcome but luckily, How2Blogger posted some tips on how to overcome blogger’s block. There are some good advices and they should come in handy when the dreaded B monster hits you.
After you have overcome the lethargy of blogger’s block, you still have the challenging task of thinking up what to write about. While it is true the more you write the better you get at it, you can still sit at the computer one day absolutely blank. It is something that impacts all of us at one time or another. When that happens it is good to have some strategies for generating new blog topic ideas and fast. Chris Garrett of Chrisg dot com showed us some quick fix on how to generate post idea when you are stuck. Unfreezing the gray cells is half the battle, once you get some traction you can build momentum and have the finished piece written in no time.
I bet you have come across lengthy blog posts with paragraphs after paragraphs of words that will likely put the readers to sleep. Using images to enhance your content is a surefire way to attract readers’ attention as well as prolong their attention span which is shorten by thousands of other worthy things to do online. Images add splashes of color all over your site, and it makes the view interesting for your readers. Over at Super Blogging Tips, Tay showed us how to find and use amazing photos from Flickr. Once you get the hang of it, you can take your site from drab to stunning just by adding one Flickr photo to the top of each of your posts.
From the topic of photos, let us now talk about video. To be specific, I want to show you a video ad, which embodies perfection, perseverance, poetry in motion and the triumph of the human spirit, all captured in Guinness Tipping Point Domino advertisement.
I came across this fantastic video over at my good friend, Deborah’s blog - Life In The Fast Lane. Check out in-depth details of The Domino Effect and many other interesting topics, all painstakingly researched and thought-provokingly written. I promise you there won’t be one dull moment.
Many of us knew about the famed Googleplex at Mountain View campus and how its workplace resembles one huge playground rather than a traditional office. Have you ever wonder how other leading Internet companies measure up to Googleplex? Charl Norman of BandWidth Blog posted a list featuring the offices of today’s leading Internet companies.
My favourite kind of office environment is that of LinkedIn, which is open-concept yet offers personal space and certain degree of privacy for individual employee.
The office of Tocquigny come across as too much like a furniture showroom, with its impeccable display of modern furnishings.
