And other blog subjects that drive me nuts.
I’ve been conducting a little experiment on my blog for the last month or so. I’ve been hearing a lot of uproarious criticism about certain kinds of posts, specifically how a few cookie cutter post styles seem to be taking over the internet. I decided I would test how those kinds of posts perform versus posts that don’t fall into any of those cookie cutter patterns.
Guess what?
The kinds of posts that people so often complain about out-perform my other posts nine times out of ten. I’d wager the same would hold true on anyone’s site.
What kind of posts are getting the shrug-off? I’m seeing a lot of people negating the value of list posts, of how-to posts, or of posts that have headlines with words like “the best.”
Have you ever envisioned your life as if you were living a movie or a television show?
Apparently, today is Monty Python Day. I’m not sure why. I’m not sure who came up with this concept. However, I most heartily approve. I have had a post idea rolling around in my head, in fact, that incorporated Monty Python, and there seems like no better time than today to let that post free. Therefore, without further delay, allow me to present 15 bits of Social Media advice from Monty Python.
In the May issue of Fast Company Magazine, there was an article called Lessons of LeBron. Though I’ve had the issue out on my desk since I got it, it’s taken me awhile to read it. I figured it would be a lot of chest thumping and hero worship for a man who broke my city’s heart.
When I went to Lincoln’s house last Friday, there was something odd about the inside tour. There weren’t tour guides, first of all, but rather personnel stationed throughout the house to make sure you didn’t touch anything and to try to answer random questions to the best of their abilities. The second weird thing is that the little signs in each room had a cell phone number you could call for an audio tour. I thought that was kind of “retro.” Why not have a QR code or even something more creative, like a special account you could tweet for information?
One of the first books I read from as a child was a little light blue paperback book about Abraham Lincoln. I don’t know how many times I read it, but I remember always being hypnotized most especially by the tales of his youth, when he scratched out lessons on the wall as he rested from a hard day of manual labor. I read that book, but I had no idea that it was the beginning of a dream.