Day 3 – 31-DBBB: A Particularly Challenging Task for Me

by Swimturtle on April 8, 2009

in Blogging, Interviews, Writing, turtleink

Today’s challenge involves promoting a post of our blog. What’s interesting about this task is that Darren points out that sometimes as blogger we fail to realize that promoting the whole blog, or the front page of our blog might be counterproductive, as possibly it is too vague. So he recommends selecting one or two posts a week to which you can give an extra push. In his post on the theoretical aspect of this lesson, Darren suggests a variety of ways in which we can promote our blog post. Here are a few that I think I can do: (read more…)

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6 Reasons Why Mario Kluser of Mario Live! Inspires Me – Day 2 – 31DBBB

April 7, 2009

This post is part of the two series: Bloggers Who Inspire Me and the 31-Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge. Here I talk about my friend and fellow blogger Mario Kluser, whose blog Mario LIVE! is one of my favorite. Its tag line is: The People Blog, a highly apt tag for an inspiring and entertaining blog.

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Renewed Mission – Part 2 and day 1-31DBBB

April 6, 2009

I define the second half of my mission for this blog and I join the 31-Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge promoted by Darren Rowse on Problogger. This is day 1 and today’s task is to write an “Elevator Pitch” for the blog.

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Scarborough Baby – Chapter 4

April 5, 2009

Seized by a mass of conflicting feelings of loss, resentment, confusion and fear, Harv sets off to see the last place her biological father was seen alive. She just wants to see, but once there cannot control her desire to know more, to delve deeper. The plot thickens.

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Author Interview: Alessandro Tombelli and his Garden Connections – part I

April 3, 2009
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This post features the first half of my interview with Alessandro Tombelli, a Florentine gardener of international renown, who has now also written a book, the podcast of the interview and some photos of gardens in which Alessandro has worked.

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Announcement: visit my aStore (Amazon Store)!

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In this post I announce the opening of my very own aStore, an Amazon outpost associate’s store that gives me a small commission on any Amazon purchase made by visitors to my site. Yippee!

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Review: Amazon Kindle – part II

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This is the second post in the Kindle series and concludes my interview with my friend Cristina. The advantages to owning a Kindle are many, and I am sure there are many more that have not yet come to light. There is definitely more to come.

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Scarborough Baby – Chapter 3b

March 25, 2009

In this post we feature the second half of Chapter 3 of Scarborough Baby, in which Harv, the young female protagonist, reads her mother’s diary from when she was a teenager looking for love in all the wrong places. In this second half of the chapter, Harv, once having begun to read, is determined to get to the truth, but she makes a terrible discovery.

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Announcement: We Have Newsletter!

March 24, 2009

In this post I introduce the newsletter and invite readers to subscribe.

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