Archive for August, 2008

Great Ideas for Blog Posts

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 cathy 1 Comment »
Please read my post over on Alex Mandossian's blog.   I wrote about repurposing your content into blog posts.  Don't be stuck for posting ideas.  Look at what you've already written and turn it into one or many posts.  Do this over an over again and you have much fodder for your blog!

WordPress Blogging Academy

Friday, August 29th, 2008 cathy 2 Comments »
WordPress Blogging Academy is now open!  This is your chance to learn how to build your blog from the ground up step-by-step.  You will start at the beginning - well, actually before the beginning.  You learn how to plan your blog for success! If you have some experience, your WordPress blog can be up from nothing [...]

Do You Have Questions for The Wizard?

Monday, August 25th, 2008 cathy 2 Comments »
Tomorrow night I will be a guest on Rosey Dow's Experts in Focus. You can go here - http://wordpresswizardinfocus.com/ and ask your question. It might be one of the questions I answer tomorrow night on the call at 9PM Eastern. Oh - when you ask your question, you get all the dial in details too so go do [...]

The WordPress Wizard's Next Class Starts This Week!

Sunday, August 17th, 2008 cathy No Comments »
Blogging with WordPress in a Web 2.0 World starts this Thursday, August 21 at 8PM Eastern. Because some people had trouble enrolling, you win!  The discount page ($100.00 discount) is still available even though the quota has been met.  It just wasn't fair to those who were trying to enroll and couldn't - so technology makes [...]

FeedBurner Not So Breaking News!

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 cathy No Comments »
Dan Frommer over at Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that with Google's acquisition of FeedBurner, they are shutting the door on new publishers in the FeedBurner ad network.  Not surprisingly, Google is instead directing publishers to its AdSense/Adwords system.  Not surprising because they started talking about it in May but maybe it's happening sooner than [...]

Should You Blog About The Olympics If It Isn't Your Niche?

Monday, August 11th, 2008 cathy 3 Comments »
Of course you should.  Isn't it inspiring to watch people who have worked and trained and sacrificed do great things on the world stage? What can we learn - for example from the US men's gymnastic team?  How about 'Never Give Up'!  They lost their team leader but are not defeated.  Will they get the [...]

Blogging With WordPress in a Web 2.0 World

Monday, August 11th, 2008 cathy 2 Comments »
Registration is now open for Blogging With WordPress in a Web 2.0 World. This course is going to cover everything you need to know about bringing your existing WordPress blog or your new or planned WordPress blog into the Web 2.0 World.  This course is going to be fun and fast paced so go on over [...]

The Wizard is Speaking at Bridging Heart and Marketing

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 cathy 1 Comment »
Wow - I just got off the phone a bit ago with Jim (half the Judith and Jim team) and found out that I will be doing a breakout session at Bridging Heart and Marketing - September 12 - 14 in LA!  A breakout session is just great - it's a smaller group of people [...]

What a combo - the Ezine Articles Guy and The Article Guy!

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 cathy No Comments »
Want to learn more about articles in an hour than in many months?  Next Wednesday, Jeff Herring, The Article Guy and Chris Knight, the Ezine Articles guy will be hanging out at the Article Marketing Cafe talking about all things 'articles'. Go on over there now and get your name on the list to get the [...]

Google did it AGAIN!

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 cathy 6 Comments »
Last Friday Google (Blogger) marked a whole bunch of its Blogger blogs as spam.  The blog owners had no access to their blogs and couldn't do anything and didn't know why. You all know that I preach about owning your own data and this is just another example of why.  The folks at Blogger actually apologized [...]