Category: Blogging

Content is Difficult

Content is Difficult

Just a really short post about the challenges behind creating content for things like your blog. You have to start somewhere.

Making a Good Looking Text Link

Making a Good Looking Text Link

This post is for students in Building Social Media Relationships. We use WordPress for our blogs. Links are really important in blog posts. You use them to make it easy for people to find other...

Blog Courageous or Careful?

Blog Courageous or Careful?

This post first appeared on Jared’s old blog on February 5, 2013. The original comments can be found there. In his post today on Businesses Grow, Mark Schaefer talks about a new blogger’s biggest problem: Lack of confidence....

Bloggers: Focus on Process or Goals?

Bloggers: Focus on Process or Goals?

Do we focus too much on our goals? I read a post by James Clear today on Medium. He argues that we should focus less on long-term goals and more on our system for...

Embed a YouTube Video on a WordPress.com Blog

Embed a YouTube Video on a WordPress.com Blog

This post was written for my Building Social Media Relationships class at the McMaster Centre for Continuing Education, but feel free to use it if it’s helpful. Some of you have been having trouble embedding...