Content writer defined by twitter: A content writer writes copy for MSM, magazines, blogs or web sites. Also: Marketing content, as in blogs, ad copy, magazine articles, etc. And: Anything posted online.
AWARD WINNING BLOGGER’S LOST AND FOUND
“Award Winning” is a resume builder. Even if you win in 1964? As a fourth grader? It’s good to get an early start at winning to build momentum for later in life, like fifth grade.
TAKING STEPS ONE AFTER ANOTHER
With any luck we’re taking steps. Right direction, or wrong, we’re taking steps. There’s nothing quite like insoles with affirmations to start those steps. Though the intentions are good, the application falls flat. How many good things start with such promise?
PORTLAND BLOGS: TOP TEN ACCORDING TO RANKER.COM
What’s it take to make the top ten list of Portland blogs. If you read ranker.com, the answer is be a newspaper since Willamette Week and The Portland Mercury top the the list at #1 and #2. I’m not complaining that newspapers and blogs shouldn’t be compared but if it was my […]
GOOD ENOUGH YET?
When ‘getting over it’ isn’t good enough. It all sounds the same. Get over it. Move on. Turn the page. Maybe you say it to yourself, maybe you hear it from others. If it’s others giving the push, you know what they’re really saying? You’re a whiner. In blogger land it’s whining about SEO, traffic, […]
A LAKE OSWEGO FOOTBALL COMMENT
Warning: Adult Language And Profanity Regarding Lake Oswego Football. Last year Lake Owego football suspended ten players for team rules violation. This year LO suspended thirty players for conduct outside the team rules agreement they signed. I see it as a type of non-disclosure statement, except it’s between the players and the team. A BoomerPDX […]
BEST PORTLAND BLOGS
Portland Blogs For Baby Boomers; What Works, What Doesn’t. The best way to know a city is by its blogs. Just make sure you read them before you arrive. If a blog promises “Gorgeous photos of Portland’s neighborhoods, updated daily,” but you get a warning message instead, what do you do? The choices start with […]
BLOGGER BLOGGING BLOGS
Writers Write About Writing. It’s called review, writing reviews. If you’re into reviews what would you rather do, write about food and drink and travel, or blogs, or books? My advice on BoomerPdx: Do it all. One benefit of reviewing books is you get free books; a detriment to reviewing books is you get free […]
BLOG REVENUE OR BLOG HITS? NUMBERS DON’T LIE
What writers in the wide world of blogging need to know: Who’s making it? Once you leave the hobby blog behind, take aim at the big leagues where the pros play for keeps. Even if your blog is smaller than a grain of sand in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, the numbers of the […]