Margie Clayman

Breaking Through the Blogosphere

Moxie Reviews wanted me to write a post about how a person new to blogging can break through and start to get heard in the online world.

You’ll think I’m pulling your leg, but factually – I can’t really answer this question. It’s not that I don’t have ideas on how I can increase how I get heard. It’s not that I can’t remember how I got from my very first blog post to where I am now (wherever that is). But the truth is that this journey is different for everybody. Everyone has to figure it out based on their own objectives, their own goals, and all of that jazz.

my dinner with Abe, Eleanor, Martin, and Elizabeth

by Margie Clayman

So the other night, per Brandon Duncan’s idea, I decided to invite four of my favorite historical figures over for dinner. I cooked a really lovely feast for Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Queen Elizabeth I. Then I showed them this social media stuff to see what they thought about it.

Why are you looking at me like that? Doesn’t this happen to everyone?

Well, anywho, I captured some of our conversation, and I thought I would share it with you here.

Keep it in or blog it out?

by Margie Clayman

Ken Mueller threw out a second topic that I thought was pretty interesting. He asked if I could write something about blogging as catharsis.

As has happened throughout this month, I’ve recently had an experience that makes this blog post timely for me.

See, here’s the thing. There was a person who I really respected. I supported them when a lot of other people were jumping ship. I risked my neck on occasion to help them out or to stand up for them. I looked up to this person, as a matter of fact. I believed the persona I was seeing and assumed that the warnings I was getting were just misunderstandings or people being weird.

Unfortunately, I have recently found out that this person actually did something that I find rather inexcusable and, for lack of a better word, yucky. People make mistakes, of course, but it always comes back to walking your talk. If you can’t walk your talk, you should just hesh up.

I find myself with a decision to make.

If I listened to a lot of the most successful bloggers out there, I would be 100% transparent. I would call this person out, assuming they would read my post. I would explain right here, out in the open, how this person let me down because I now feel like a fool for thinking the best of them. I would use names and facts and dates. I would warn people not to fall for this person’s tricks like I did.

If I was like a lot of bloggers out there, that’s exactly what I would do. I would write it all out, hit publish, and BOOM! It would be out there, and until the comments would start rolling in, I would feel downright cleansed.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, I’m not 100% convinced that’s the best way to go.

Lessons I’ve Learned

by Margie Clayman

Michael Palko asked me to talk about important lessons I’ve learned over the years. The most important lesson I’ve learned over the years is that in order to truly learn something, you need to experience it and absorb it yourself. This happens when your heart, not your head, is ready. Until you are ready, people could babble wisdom at you all the live long day and it wouldn’t do you a darned bit of good.

Given that, I’m sending out these bits of knowledge I’ve gathered over the years of my life with the idea that if you are ready to absorb these things, they will resonate with you. If you’re not ready, they will perhaps at the very least roll around in your brain a bit in the meantime 🙂

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15 Social Media Insights from Around Hollywood

by Margie Clayman

Boy, you sure do make me throw a lot of parties! I mean, granted, I talked to the Beatles of my own volition, but then you asked me to talk to great figures from the past, and now Kaarina Dillabough has asked me to see what different Hollywood stars have to say about social media. It just never ends!

Wel, I’m an obliging soul, so I toured Hollywood and got the perspective of several different people about social media – their advice, what they like, what they don’t like, the whole shebang. Hopefully you’ll enjoy their insights!

Social Media is as Easy as Your ABCs

by Margie Clayman

Ken Mueller suggested that I write up the ABCs of Social Media – kind of like a kids’ guide to this crazy and wacky world. People warned me that this was a difficult task, and I see what they mean. Even so, hopefully you’ll be able to frame this, let your kids learn from it, and then, just when your kids are ready to jump on the computer, inform them that all of these ideas are now obsolete (that’s what I’m imagining will happen anyway!).

Ehem.

Here we go!

Margie Clayman

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