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Photographers! I interrupt this blog…

March 4, 2010
pixel happy photography theme for genesis by studiopress

I interrupt this blog for a moment a shameless self-promotion. Please forgive me, I’m just so stinking excited. But I wouldn’t post it here, if I didn’t think I could save my photography friends some serious money.
Many of you know I am a graphic designer and a photographer. I often get requests for photo [...]

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Blogging with the Mother Hen, Parte Due.

February 25, 2010
peek a boo Trouble

If you’re new to this discussion, please read: Blogging with the Mother Hen – the first post. Especially read the amazing, thoughtful comments. The real gems are contained below the post. This is my perseverantia ad finem optatum, fed by the diverse comments and opinions shared by you all.

I hope people aren’t misreading my words [...]

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Photoshop Tutorial: How do I maintain proportion and scale when I resize my images?

February 23, 2010
picasso in the snow

Have you ever been surfing the web and seen a photo like this?

There are two ways to make sure that no matter what size you make sweet little Picasso, that you keep his proportions locked so he still looks human when you’re done.
The first one is easy, and obvious. But you’d be surprised how many [...]

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Blogging with the Mother Hen

February 19, 2010
happy valentine's day card to mom

Blogging isn’t easy. Blogging consistently for 5 years is a feat of nature. Lately I’ve been silenced.
For most of the time, I’ve written fairly anonymously. I use my real first name, but I’ve given my children pseudonyms to protect them from some job interview, application or future situation in which they rather not have the [...]

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Evolution. Blogging. Evolution of a blog.

January 24, 2010
icicles hang from iowa home in january

Have you ever sat down and reflected on how your blog has evolved? I bet some of you started off blogging about one thing or another and the blog sorta took on a life of its own, right? Yeah, me too.
2010 (did you say twenty-ten or two-thousand-ten?) is 5 years blogging for me. [...]

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Why is everyone moving to Wordpress? Should I move?

December 10, 2009
should I move from Blogger to Wordpress?

**updated 3/5/10**
Many of you have seen your favorite blogs move recently. Kimba moved, Sandy moved, Rhoda moved, Alli moved, and the cat is out of the bag – Nester will be moving soon (I am almost done with her blog, she has been working *very* hard behind the scenes!) . I’m sure [...]

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The FTC Shtuff: a real-life pretend example.

October 7, 2009

Real-life pretend. *snort*
This post is in reaction to my earlier post.
I have gotten quite a few confused emails, especially from hobby bloggers who do product reviews. I will try to clarify to the best of my understanding, using a real-life pretend example.
The part that’s tricky, in my opinion, is the product reviews and [...]

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Migrating from Blogger to Wordpress – My Experience

June 28, 2009

Are you considering moving your blog from Blogger / Blogspot.com to Wordpress? Here is my experience with blog migration.
I bought this domain back in November 2008 and made the move in June 2009, so it wasn’t an overnight experience. That said, it doesn’t need to take 7 months either. I was dragging [...]

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To Ad or not to Ad. That is the question.

June 10, 2009

I gave a workshop today on blogging at AWI. My last point was: Should you or should you not advertise or accept PR on your blog? Looking around lwm3b you can see which decision I made. But I’ll humbly agree it’s not for every blog nor every blogger.
Turns out, very few [...]

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How to allow bloggers to respond to your comments:

June 8, 2009

Has this happened to you?

One of the most frustrating things about blogging is getting a comment or question, then having no way to respond. If you use Blogger and leave comments on blogs… please, please follow these steps to make sure bloggers can respond to you! I did a post not long ago [...]

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10 Blogging Mistakes

June 4, 2009

Are you making any of these blogging blunders?
1. Being totally anonymous.It isn’t necessary to reveal confidential information like your last name or city to establish that you are a real person. But revealing something about yourself lends your blog credibility. As your reader, I want to know what we have in common, [...]

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