Blog: Mel's Muse - Archive for April 2010

Niche Blogging? All I Want To Know Is What To Write About!

Posted: Friday, 23rd April 2010

In this instalment of my mini series on article writing and blogging, I’m going to look at an issue that plagues many of us. How do you decide what to write?

Perhaps you blog daily? Or possibly only once or twice a week? But what is it that gives you the conviction to know what you are going to write?

This was the problem for Lucy Cripps, whose correspondence with me has been the basis of the last three posts I’ve written on the subject of article writing.

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Taking a Focused Strategy When Optimising Your Blog Brand & Content

Posted: Monday, 19th April 2010

In this mini series on article writing and blogging, I have been using some queries put to me by an online friend, Lucy Cripps, as the basis of the information I’ve shared. In the first, I gave four tips on blog brand, purpose, keywords, and titles.

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Using Long Tail Keywords When Optimising Your Title In Article Writing & Blogging

Posted: Friday, 9th April 2010

In my last post on article writing and blogging – the first in this mini-series - I used (with permission) the correspondence that had taken place between me and my guest blogger, Lucy Cripps. As an ex-teacher, Lucy had kindly agreed to write a guest blog for me about her experience with peer education training, in respect of teen drug abuse. When she sent the first draft she invited me to be ‘as brutal as you want’.

Articles on related themes: Article Writing & Blogging; Brand

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Four Tips On Article Writing & Blogging & One New Blogger

Posted: Thursday, 8th April 2010

There are a number of basic skills in article writing and blogging, and rather than merely write another feature on each of them, it occurs to me that it may be helpful to readers to follow the process that I recently worked through in correspondence with an online friend. Let me explain.

BLOG BRAND

Having learned, through social networking (one of my LinkedIn groups) that Lucy Cripps was once a teacher who had participated in a drugs education project, I asked her if she would be willing to write a guest blog on the topic. My reason for doing so was, unashamedly, to promote my last book, A Painful Post Mortem.

Articles on related themes: Brand; Article Writing & Blogging

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The Foolishness of God: A Mad Sad Plan?

Posted: Monday, 5th April 2010

An advertisement for a new book, Bad Laws by The Daily Telegraph’s assistant editor, Philip Johnston, has just caught my eye. The book is subtitled An explosive analysis of Britain’s petty rules, health and safety lunacies and madcap laws, beneath which is the following statement: For 13 years, a war has been waged on British liberties, traditions, and even religious conviction.

It's launch is obviously timed to precede the UK's General Election, but it particularly interested me because of its juxtaposition with the Easter weekend.

Articles on related themes: Life, Faith & Other Stuff

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