We get used to thinking about stress as a bad thing.  A negative to be avoided.  And I’d probably agree - in fact I’ve turned my life round to get away from intolerable levels of stress that I just didn’t want to live with any...
Topics: business writing, Reflections, Stress

I wrote a while back about my appreciation of silent readers… not least as I read many blogs silently myself.  Brad Shorr at Word Sell picked up and developed this idea, including a hat tip to the blogs he reads in silence.This seems like an idea..
Topics: blog reading, Snippets

Working links into your work is an integral part of blogging.Linking out is good for:Your readers: by providing them with ideas and suggestions (that they can trust) on interesting sites, new ideas, valuable resources, other blogs to explore and so...
Topics: Anchor text, Blog Writing, Methods of website linking, responsible links

Blog Action Day 08 is taking place next Wednesday, 15th October.If you haven’t heard what it’s about this short video will introduce you to the main idea: to open up a different kind of conversation about the global issue of poverty.Blog...
Topics: Blog Action Day, Snippets

Liz Strauss is running another great “25 words” project. The results for the last project were brilliant. I couldn’t take part before because I was away on holiday, but I couldn’t resist this one.Here’s my contribution:...
Topics: Connectedness, Snippets