Here's something I've noticed in my tenish years doing this work. Most people HATE to go on video, mainly because you have to worry about how you sound AND how you look at the same time. For example, I video recorded my pastor's sermons for a few weeks. I noticed...
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Blogging As Self Expression And Discipline: An Interview With Linda Robinson
Before I met Linda Robinson, I knew three things about her: She was super interested in and knew a lot about birthing babies. She did lots of work in other countries related to this. She had a weekly blog. Now most people just blog when they feel like it, but Linda...
Divorce (And Other Yuck) PR
About a year and a half ago my life blew up. Both in an epic way and also a private way. My husband walked out and I unexpectedly found myself looking for a new place to live and getting divorced... while still trying to do the things I typically do in my life like...
Five Steps For Organizing Tech Clutter
I have two boxes of cords I've now moved from two apartments to two offices. You know the cords I'm talking about: those hookups you remember paying $30 for but can't remember why/what they go to, so they are still wrapped up. What do I mean by technology? At first, I...
Ten Things You Can Do To Your Website To Make Peoples’ Lives Easier
If you have a website, chances are you are continuously thinking about making it better. Here are a few things you may or may not have thought of that you can use on your website. Make phone numbers clickable. With the invention of touchable screens and cell phones,...
100 Youtube Videos
? Inspired by a lot of short format content I've seen (and by friends who ask me questions that have answers which aren't quite enough info for a blog post), I thought I'd see if I could do 100 videos in 100 days. I also wanted to see if they'd get more views or have...
Thoughts on Google AdSense
After starting up my own personal blog, I started thinking about ways to make it a bit of a side hustle (oh, and Side Hustle School was inspiring as well). One of the ideas that kept coming up was Google AdSense, a way to display ads on your website. The whole moral...
Get the Baby off the Ceiling, Please: When Working from Home isn’t Working
As a parent, I learned quickly that, in order to be productive, I had to be out of the house. I have two young children -- a 6-year-old who has some relatively minor developmental challenges and a 2-year-old who has done more to reinforce the “terrible twos”...
Types of Mom Blogs
I became fascinated with mom blogging a few years ago when I was ghostwriting for a mom blogger. Initially, I thought mom bloggers wrote about "mom stuff" like toys, feeding, cute clothes, developmental concerns, and the like. Rather, I found most mom bloggers focus...