Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt

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Glenda Watson Hyatt shares her experiences living with cerebral palsy to motivate and inspire others to think about how they perceive their own situation and their own world around them. She does all this by typing with only her left thumb!

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Live from BlogWorld – Final Day

Filed under: General — by at 4:52 pm on Sunday, September 21, 2008

Another awesome day in Vegas! Operating on minimal sleep…my own bed tomorrow.

Great keynote w/ Tim Ferris – details later.

My Blog is a Business?

  • Chris Brogan,  Jeremy Wright, Rob McNeally, Nina Yablok
  • write to your customer – what’s in it for me
  • think less, plan less, do more
  • embrace social/new media
  • work our ass off!
  • biz plan – what, why, how, where, when from blogger and reader/payor side
  • the minute you take $ from someone, you’ve sold out – be ok w/ it!
  • be ready to spend money, i.e. for cpa/lawyer
  • develop rel’ships w/ people who can help grow your biz
  • community is huge
  • clients will always pay more than you ask for!
  • make more w/ elearning/consulting than w/ ebooks

Book Deals, Digital Assets and Corporate Sponsorships

  • get an agent! tough
  • platform – how well known, public profile – blogging & soc media to leapfrog platform building
  • [note to self:  follow @chrisweb]
  • [note to self: check out BuzzCorps]
  • w/ corps easier to go for big $ – perceived value
  • our knowledge/experience is valuable to someone

The Stats of High Performance Content & Marketing

  • Liz Straus, Lorelle VanFossen, John Pozadzides
  • google analytics underestimate stats by 11%
  • question everything!
  • generlizations: trafficc is a good thing – want right traffic; lower bounce rates are better – not accurate; need to redo homepage
  • use descriptive titles, use related links
  • use stats to see NOW  what’s working
  • take action on popular posts – they’re landing pages
  • more traffic = more responsibility = writer’s block
  • don’t force readers to register to comment!!!
  • design for mobile users
  • pay attention to people, not the traffic

Getting Customer Buy In & Managing Client Relationships

  • Des Walsh, Robyn Tippins, Rich Brooks, Toby Bloomberg
  • blogs open doors and create warm leads

Brain fried. Thumb tired. Home tomorrow. Catch you later.

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I Miss My Mommy

Filed under: General — by at 1:10 pm on Thursday, September 18, 2008

Kitty Faith Hi everyone!

Faith here, Mommy’s Chief Feline Officer. Mommy is away at Las Vegas for a holiday and for BlogWorld.

After watching Mommy blog for a few years, I thought I’d try my paw at it. (Shh, don’t tell Mommy!) This blogging is pretty easy with Windows Live Writer. No more cursing HTML code, like Mommy used to do. In fact, this is the cat’s meow!

How am I doing?

Faith, the blogging cat I still miss Mommy though. Uncle Bob comes by every day to feed me and clean my litter box (hehe). But I always run and hide when he comes because I am scared of other people, except for Mommy and sometimes Daddy. But Uncle Bob doesn’t make me say PLEASE when he feeds me, like Mommy does. What’s up with humans saying please all of the time? But Mommy lets me lick peanut butter off of her left thumb in the mornings. She sure uses her left thumb a lot!

Oh, and she gives me treats. Sometimes she throws them for me. Other times she puts them on the corner of her desk for me to reach up and swat off. She is a good Mommy! I bring her toys, only when I want to, though.

Meow! Mommy and me will have a fun announcement in October, once she has recovered from her weekend in Castlegar. What’s a Castlegar? But I’m so excited, I’m purring just thinking about it! The thing is only Mommy’s email subscribers will hear about it first. Sooo, take your mouse (if only!) and go to the upper right corner of this page and subscribe to the emails. Hurry, do it before you forget! You know how you humans get sidetracked.

Faith licking her paw Sorry, I had to stop to wash my paw. It got dirty from typing.

Meow? Where was I?

Oh yes, the fun announcement! Did you sign up? And, if you’re on Twitter, would you do me a favour, <head bonk>? Would you tweet about this and ask your friends to sign up, <head bonk>? Whenever I try tweeting, I see the birdie and try catching it rather than tweeting. Thanks <head bonk>!

catnap My paws are tired. Time for a nap. How many more naps until Mommy comes home? If I have them all today, will she be home sooner? Then I can cuddle with her and purr in her ear!

Thanks for reading, <head bonk>!

Make it a purrfect day!

Love,
Faith

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Left Thumb Blogger Stumbles Across Next Upgrade

Filed under: General — by at 3:27 pm on Saturday, August 16, 2008

USB thumb drivee

Several weeks ago I mentioned I, the Left Thumb Blogger, was holding out for the Thumb 2.0 rather than succumbing to the iPhone 3G Mania. Yesterday I stumbled across the next upgrade for the Left Thumb Blogger – a USB thumb drive!

But, seriously, isn’t this the ideal promotional item for the Left Thumb Blogger to hand out? I could upload content to the thumb drive and then use it instead of a business card. How memorable would that be!

My next step is to contact the manufacturer or wholesaler to inquire about a discounted price. The challenge there is that the order page is in Japanese – like that is going to deter me!

This post is dedicated to Amy Stewart who introduced me to Windows Live Writer, which is making writing posts fun again. Thanks Amy!

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Resisting iPhone 3G Mania

Filed under: General — by at 12:49 pm on Friday, July 11, 2008

The must-have-latest-gadget world is buzzing with today’s worldwide release of the iPhone 3G. People began lining up last night at their local mobile phone stores to be among the first to scoop an iPhone.

Combining “a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser,” the iPhone 3G redefines what a mobile phone can do.


The Left Thumb Blogger awaits release of Thumb 2.0

The Thumb 2.0 will be compatible with all PC and Mac systems, and usable with all applications, including email programs, word processors, blogging platforms and multimedia packages. Its sleek, compact design and universality will ease travel anywhere in the world. The Thumb 2.0 will never encounter system failures, corrupt files or network outages.

Unlike the iPhone 3G, the Thumb 2.0 will not require expensive service plans. Requiring no batteries to recharge, the Thumb 2.0 will not put a further drain on the energy resources nor contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions. And, there is absolutely no risk of causing brain tumours.

Enjoy your iPhone. I will be first in line when the Thumb 2.0 is finally released.

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Why I’ve Disappeared

Filed under: General — by at 5:18 pm on Sunday, March 16, 2008

Last Friday my husband was rushed to the hospital with what we thought was a severe case of stomach flu. It turned out to be a gall stone attack.

Darrell had his gall bladder removed this Friday, after three hours on the OR table. He is recovering in hospital and his parents are here to help him.

Right now my mind is too scattered to blog, although there is much to blog about. Regular blog posts will resume once chaos returns to normal.

Thanks to my friends who have kept me relatively sane over the past week!

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