Healthy Blogging Episode 4: The Power of Water

September 29, 2010

In this episode of Healthy Blogging, I discuss the myriad health benefits of drinking water. Specifically, I highlight three benefits of drinking water that particularly benefit bloggers. However, as we all know, drinking water is important for everyone, especially people who sit at desks for most of their day. So this video should be universally relevant.

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Webinar Schedule

September 28, 2010
This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series Fundamentals of Blogging

The upcoming webinar schedule highlights many of the basics of blogging including: automation for social networks, analyzing your traffic, optimizing your site for SEO and the best way to use images on your blog.

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The Blogging Life: Interview with Phil Van der Vossen of Gunaxin

September 28, 2010

I’m very excited to share Episode 2 of The Blogging Life with you because my guest, Phil Van der Vossen of Gunaxin, is about to embark on a part of the blogging life cycle that so many of us bloggers hope to one day reach. After launching his website and managing it while also holding [...]

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How to Create a WordPress Post

September 27, 2010
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Fundamentals of Blogging

WordPress has labored to make the blogging process easy for everyone. New bloggers and seasoned blogger alike will find that the process of creating a WordPress post is systematic and easy to learn.  Below are the basic steps to creating a successful WordPress post for the first-time blogger. WordPress posts are used to put content [...]

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Better Blogging: Episode 1 – Expand Your Horizons to Stay Excited

September 23, 2010

In this first episode of Better Blogging, I discuss a topic that has been on my mind a lot lately when it comes to managing a blog, and that is excitement. Or Freshness. Or Staying motivated. Or any other way you want to describe it. It seems like so many bloggers I talk to find [...]

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Healthy Blogging: Take the Stairs

September 22, 2010

In Episode 3 of Healthy Blogging I start off by announcing a more narrow focus for this video blog series. Rather than mixing in the specifics of how to blog, Healthy Blogging will deal exclusively with ways to combat the health risks of blogging. You may not consider blogging to be a health “risk”, but [...]

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The Blogging Life: Jerod Interviews Grace Boyle of Small Hands, Big Ideas

September 21, 2010

Welcome to the first episode of The Blogging Life! This is a brand new weekly podcast, posted every Tuesday morning, with a simple objective: to highlight, celebrate, educate, and inspire bloggers. I’ll be interviewing a wide spectrum of bloggers, inviting them to share their experiences, processes, and philosophies. My goal, in addition to providing fun [...]

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Recovering Corrupted AVCHD Files

September 20, 2010

Though we have a technical pillar, How-To-Blog.TV is not really geared toward file system tools and really geeky topics.  However, many bloggers are venturing into the world of video because multi-media is important.  Unfortunately, when a blogger enters the world of video, they also get to experience some of the problems.  While shooting video for [...]

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Healthy Blogging: Tips for Optimizing Title Meta Tag and Page Title

September 15, 2010

In Episode 2 of my Healthy Blogging series, I provide a very simple but useful tip regarding search engine optimization (SEO). It deals with the difference between an SEO title (as defined by the <title> meta tag) and the title that users/readers of your blog see. This is not only one of the most conceptually [...]

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Healthy Blogging: Introduction and Curing a Common Error

September 14, 2010

Welcome to the first installment of Healthy Blogging, which will be my regular video blog series that addresses every possible iteration of the term “healthy blogging”. I’d explain more, but I just spent time saying it in front of the camera on my Mac, so why type when I can just embed a video and [...]

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