The Hello Bar is a simple web toolbar that engages users and communicates a call to action.

SOBCon 08 Reports – Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett speaking at SOBCon 08

Your audience will educate you with feedback – positive or negative will teach you.

Repeat yourself, reiterate, people learn through repetition.

It’s difficult to be brief, do your best, put real thoughts out there, pose questions.

A really good question is often better than a good statement

Generating Content

Keep notes
Mind maps are useful

Business Process

You can get content out of how you do what you do — that’s a story
Source “Bits” > Put Bits Together > Deliver Stuff > Happy Customer

Managing the Editorial

Use an editorial calendar

Invent ideas, wherever you are

Break out your creativity – deliberately engage in activities to stretch and strengthen your creativity

Panic Posts

Post that are nearly complete but not published, in draft status ready to be published.

You’re only as good as your last post.

Source people before you need them so when something breaks or there’s a problem, you will know who to turn to.

How to do a 5-minute Post
Start with the end point: the point of this post is…

Questions to ask

Who for?
What?
So what?

Rubber Ducking

Use a rubber duck as an imaginary listener to clarify your thoughts about a post (fun idea!)

Recommends ScribeFire as a blogging tool for multiple blogs

Did you enjoy this article?

Don't miss the next one! Get on the list. You'll also get my free report on the 10 Tragic Blogging Mistakes you may be making.

Sorry, comments are closed for this post.

Remarkablogger is powered by Headway

Get Headway Themes

The Headway WordPress theme framework gives you total control over the appearance of your WordPress site without writing any code.

  • Create a color scheme "automatically" based on your header image colors with Headway's Quick Start Wizard
  • Headway's Visual Editor lets you build your site live and watch it happen
  • Everything managed easily via drag & drop
  • Use, create & save your own style sets and templates to easily change the look of your site without code
  • Social media integration and search engine optimization built-in
  • Friendly Headway user community with active forums and outstanding support
  • "Plain English" documentation (including lots of screenshots and videos)
  • Automatic updates
  • 100% GPL-compliant

Headway lets you design your site your way. It's about control, not code.

Check out Headway now to see the full list of features and showcase gallery.

Get Cloud PHP Hosting on CatN