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Image by !borghetti via FlickrThe other day I thanked my silent readers, people who come to Word Sell but don’t comment. I swiped the idea from Joanna Young.
Pay It Forward
Now I’d like to be original and tip my hat to blogs I read religiously but seldom if ever comment on.
Maybe you’d like to share […]

Some organizations are absolutely spooked by the idea of people leaving negative comments on their blog. That kind of thinking, while understandable, is not only wrong, it is 180 degrees wrong. Let me try to make the case. Here’s what I would tell a client thinking about launching a blog but worried about comments.
First of […]

Aloha! Today you can find my post at Joyful Jubilant Learning. This month, the JJL theme is citizen publishing … hope you have time to explore the many perspectives offered by JJL contributors.
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1. Joyful Jubilation
Last week I became an official contributor to Joyful Jubilant Learning, a really fun community learning blog you should check out if you’re not familiar with it. It was quite an honor and look forward to stretching my mind reading and writing. (A complete list of JJL community contributors appears at the bottom […]

Here are my pet blogging peeves. How does my list compare to yours?
CAPTCHA. It doesn’t take that much time, but knowing there are other anti-spam methods makes this extra step a deterrent to leaving a comment.
Partial RSS feeds. I scan 100-300 blog posts in my reader every day, so I’m looking for reasons not […]

When I was in sales management, I made a conscious effort to keep sales trainees away from veterans, or at least limit the interactions. The problem I kept running into - and it’s a good problem to have - was that the veterans were always giving advice to these eager new people. And though […]

A post on the Zemanta blog publishing assistant drew a comment from the folks at Kaalga. Kaalga is a Firefox extension (in Beta, I believe) that uses –
OpenCalais (Reuters) semantic API to suggest phrases in your text suitable for linking, and Google search to present relevant links for selected phrases.
Amit Aviv and Ori Mosinzon from […]