This fantastic post is by Brandon P. Duncan! Brandon Duncan is the author of Brandon the Duncan – Fatherhood in 4L, a dad blog. In addition to writing there, he also participates in several online writing clubs, contributes to multiple other sites, and is currently working on a children’s book. Connect with him at brandontheduncan.com.… Continue reading New Bloggers Are Like Teenagers
Month: September 2011
The Great Unfollowing of 2011: We’re All Better Than This
OK, OK. Everyone, it seems, is talking about the people who are unfollowing hundreds of thousands of people on Twitter and then following back 2-300 people. Chris Brogan did it first. Then Michael Hyatt, and now I guess other people are falling like a chain of dominoes. I am not happy that people who have… Continue reading The Great Unfollowing of 2011: We’re All Better Than This
TweetDiner – Social Media for Social Good
As mentioned a few weeks ago, we’re going to be starting a new TweetDiner chat series that will begin on Saturday, September 17th and will carry on through to the end of the year. The idea of this series is to accentuate the positive. It seems (to me at least) that a lot of gloom… Continue reading TweetDiner – Social Media for Social Good
Margie Clayman Interviews Janice Person of Monsanto
For as long as I’ve known about Monsanto, I have only ever seen bad news about them. I first heard the name when I read Animal Vegetable Miracle. Then I heard about them again when I watched Food Inc. One of the wonders of the world of social media is that pretenses you bring from… Continue reading Margie Clayman Interviews Janice Person of Monsanto
I Don’t Hate You. I Didn’t Misunderstand You. I Just Don’t Like What You’re Doing
Imagine the following scenario with me, won’t you please? It’s 1858, and you’re living in the Wild West, aka Illinois. There’s a pretty hotly contested senatorial race going on between the very well respected Democrat, Stephen A. Douglas, and some lanky dude named Abraham Lincoln. The two men have been engaging in debates all over… Continue reading I Don’t Hate You. I Didn’t Misunderstand You. I Just Don’t Like What You’re Doing
Let’s Talk About…A New Series
In trying to think about blog topics lately, I’ve kind of gotten a bit itchy. If a lot of people were writing how-to posts before I started my engagement series, even more people are writing them now. And besides, now that I’ve been in the online world for a bit, I am acutely, nay, keenly… Continue reading Let’s Talk About…A New Series