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How to Post Regularly on Social Media
Social Media is intimidating. Many people fear their Twitter account, because it seems like you have to be online all the time. You don't. You can still maintain a constant social media presence by scheduling your posts in advance. When you are working at optimum efficiency, you are batching your tasks in groups. Using a few technical tools, you can batch all of your social media into one block of time. I am on twitter twice a week. [Correction: I am on Tweet [...]
One Strong Belief #trust30
One Strong Belief by Buster Benson It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance The world is powered by passionate people, powerful ideas, and fearless action. What’s one strong belief you possess that isn’t shared by your closest friends or family? What [...]
The Sentence of Today. #trust30
Today by Liz Danzico Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount yesterdays. How would you describe today using only one sentence? Tell today’s sentence to one other person. Repeat each day. (Author: Liz Danzico) The [...]
Hey, thanks. This life is awesome. #trust30
According to the rules of the #trust30 writing prompts, this is my first day (out of 30) of trusting myself, and writing what needs to be written. Todays prompt: We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson You just discovered you have fifteen minutes to live. 1. Set a timer for fifteen minutes. 2. Write the story that has to [...]
Scheduling Future Posts with WordPress
One of the biggest difficulties in maintaining a blog presence is the output of regular content. There are three ways to fill up your RSS feed and keep your readers engaged: Publish multiple authors on your blog Hire a ghostwriter to write your posts for you Schedule future posts and do all of your writing at once Some sites (like Copyblogger and Mashable) have multiple authors, and they aggregate their content into one feed. Other sites maintain one person as [...]
Don’t Gimme Shelter
The mindset of Western and European people is fundamentally influenced by our crappy weather. When I want to take my kids out of doors, we have to hunt for a large list of essential clothing: Coats Shoes Socks Baby Legs (but my 5 year old insists we call them “leggings,” and if I call them “Baby Legs” we have to go find ANOTHER pair) Sweaters Hats Scarves Gloves Amidst the 30-minute search for all of these pieces, I have [...]