Electrolicious

You seem to have a nice balance in sharing yourself on a personal level with sharing fun stuff (if that makes sense - you’ve got a healthy separation, it seems). Did you find that hard? What kind of questions do you ask yourself before you talk about things on your blog, esp personal things?
First: thank [...]

Are connections as important as skill in the job world?
Always.
I think connections and networking are important in pretty much every industry, and the copywriting/marketing world is no exception. (And don’t even get me started on the publishing industry!) It’s part of why being a serial contracting copywriter served me well: I did years of short [...]

Below, please find selections from one of the best emails I have ever received from a friend. Ever. It touches on unicorns, Mad Max, ufos, iphones, the afterlife, and the mayan calendar. The subject line was the title of this post (”It’s night, and stuff”) and yes: I got permission to post this.

Can anyone answer this keyboard shortcut question?

So I just read about this new term: Bacn, described as “The new email food group: It’s not spam, it’s bacn. Bacn describes the things you signed up for but that still feel like clutter in your inbox: Email lists, Facebook notifications, Google alerts.”
I used to manage my bacn with Bloglines “email to RSS” feature, [...]

The Art of Crafts
The CraftBlogging community is diverse and large, covering everything from scrapbooking to knitting to other handi-crafts. They use their online communities to collaborate, to provide critiques, to engage in commerce, and simply to learn. How do you find your piece of the CraftBlogosphere? And yes, we’ll also talk crafts…our favorite solo and [...]

Thanks to everyone who made it to the “Blog to Book and Back” panel. It seemed pretty packed and there were tons of great questions and (hopefully?) some good answers. If there were any questions you have that weren’t answered, feel free to ask in the comments! I will try not to be bitter.
Here are [...]

Media Training
We will take a look at a couple of recent case studies of bloggers in the media…what went right, and what went wrong. What are the tactics journalists learn when preparing and interviewing subjects? What are they trying to accomplish? How do you take your self-branding skills to the next level and stay on [...]

Privacy, Exposure, Risk: Can you maintain safer spaces online?
When there are other people involved, blogging can be just like sex. You can never guarantee it’s 100% safe, but you can make it safer. And oh, by the way, “safe” can be in the eye of the beholder. Discuss where you draw the line to protect [...]

Here’s the panel I’m at now:
Digital Exhibitionists or Chroniclers of their Time: Will Naked Bloggers Make History?
Throughout history women have written about their worlds, with little public recognition; still they provided a vibrant portrait of history beyond the political battles and civil wars. Are modern-day diarists self-involved? Self-absorbed? Boring? Au contraire! They may be future [...]