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ONLINE PRESENTS, OR ONLINE PRESENCE

Online presents are the gifts you give yourself. And you’ve earned them, however magnificent or meager they may be. Baby boomers know all about the differences between magnificent and meager. So should you. Please continue.

CHANGING TIMES IN SEPTEMBER

Changing times are one thing: Fall back, or spring forward. Okay, two things. But the month of September is my big change month since first grade and every grade after. For everything:

CONTENT CREATION QUESTIONS TO ASK

Content creation are not my two favorite words. Content Creator sounds like a title bestowed by the Gods of the Internet. But if your goal is creating content for an online audience, where do you start? Ask a blogger with a track record of post production if you know one. If you don’t know an […]

BLOG COACH STEPS UP

The blog coach call came from a man who needed help. Why call me? Because I’ve got a track record of thirty-two hundred posts on boomerpdx. Not thirty, not thirty-two, but thirty-two hundred blog posts. I’d call me too. But there’s more, so much more.

GOOD READERS 2023 TOP TEN POSTS, SO FAR

Good readers decide what makes the Top 10 on boomerpdx. But are they actual readers or casual scrollers seeking something based on a headline? Which are you? What makes you stop and stick around on any blog? Let’s do a test beginning with a question:

LATE BLOOMERS CROWD THE STAGE

Who loves late bloomers? Not the people they crowd out. It’s hard enough getting any traction and gains without someone new showing up and taking all of the attention. To make it even worse, they might be Baby Boomers.

SOCIAL MEDIA SUPER STAR IN THE WINGS

    News reports about social media and the ‘new awareness’ we all need to observe will never keep grandma from posting new baby pictures. ButI think I get the point of the warning. From my census training I learned how to gather visual evidence at the door if a citizen didn’t want to interact […]

Blog Relaunch Shoots Blanks, Misses Writing Target

    Thinking of starting a blog, relaunching a blog? Good.   If you’re a writer, then I’m talking to you. Whether you dabble with words, put a few things on paper, or carve out time to organize the book you’ve been writing the past few years, it’s you.   The world of bloggers, columnists, […]

IF YOU WRITE A BLOG, WRITERS’ BLOCK NOT ALLOWED

So you think you can write a blog? Really? If you hang out with writers, you’ve heard of THE BLOCK, writers’ block. Sounds like this: “I sit there like a writer. I fill up the screen with words. None of it makes sense. Day after day I delete, then delete some more. I’m lost.” Lost, […]

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, […]