Today marks the 9th anniversary of my personal blog – unsweetened.ca (yes, this one!) The photo above is also the 15000 photo I have loaded to my personal account on Flickr. Yes 15000! If I ever wonder if I’m producing enough, this just answered it for me. Though I have a backlog of photos, posts and ideas just bursting to get out, so don’t expect me to stop any time soon.
I’m in the process of moving unsweetened.ca from Typepad to WordPress. Yes, I have caved. In fact, the next blog post you see from unsweetened.ca may just be on wordpress. You shouldn’t notice much of a difference. But check out this boring photo. Notice the last import line? 1415. Importing post Day 1 – On the Road Again… That’s 1415 blog posts, since I started blogging in 2004. I blog a LOT!
Getting the books up onto miniBookExpo for Bloggers is going slower than I hoped, but the work is worth it since books are already starting to get snapped up. Claim it - Read it – Blog it. Here are the titles that got added yesterday: Delible [Anne Stone] Eye of the Dream [Elizabeth Sinclair] Extreme Career Performance [Sandra Boyd / Michael Rosenberg] Exit Strategy [Kelley Armstrong] Enslaved [Hope Tarr] Disconnection [Erin Samiloglu] Poseur #1 [Rachel Maude] Pimsleur Comprehensive Chinese Mandarin I North of Smokey [David Doucette] No Collar, No Service: A Pooch Cafe Collection [Paul Gilligan] Master and Commander [Patrick O'Brian] In…
Yes, I’ve just been through another round of bio-writing**. You’d think that once you’ve written one bio, you’ve written them all. But it’s not true. Especially for someone with a portfolio-style career like mine has become. You need one for your books. Another one for your food blogging . Yet another one for your photography. Then there’s the one for speaking engagements focused on creativity, entrepreneurship and blogging. And of course, the ones summarizing your expertise in content management, project management, business analysis and strategy. And yet, while developing all of these 50-word bios, I can never seem to find…
Very recently roro tagged me to spill 5 reasons why I blog. In my attempt to respond to her tag, I’ve been delving my depths (what depths there are) and checking out other people’s response to this. I have to say, I’ve been impressed with their honesty and insight into why they and others blog: roro‘s answered the question with “to delight” and there is consensus that she does; Zuhn response includes a line so good I’m going to lift it verbatim; Reshma evolved into a summary of the blogging motivational clusters: creation, connection, recognition and reward; Rohan, who was…
Some of you may know that for five seasons of The Donald, and one season of Martha, I ran TheApprenticeBlog.com. With a little nudging, a quiz asking Which Apprentice Are You?, and regular commentary about the business lessons and the candidates' performance, I built a healthy… nay… huge active reader base. Then, before Donald could move west and shove his unsuspecting candidates into tents in the backyard, I sold it on eBay. Bloggers like Terry, of Superaff.com, pointed out that the new owner "just bought themselves a whole bunch of links for peanuts." The new owner introduced himself on the site, and…
I’ve realized, in my post-wine haze, that Maggie missed a blogging idea, one that is ripe with creativity. You’ve heard of drunk dialing, haven’t you? Well let me introduce you to its Web2.0 cousin – pissed posting (also known as bombed blogging and wrecked writing.) While you might not build a following, you’ll certainly develop a reputation.
I spoke as part of Word On The Street‘s Blogging Toronto Discussion Panel. All the other panelists: Tim Shore of BlogTO, Rannie Turingan of Photojunkie.ca, Sarah Hood of Unknown Toronto and the panel moderator Matt Blankett of Spacing Magazine, all brought cool swag which they shared with the audience (and me!) The panel went well, though we didn’t have enough time for a proper Q&A because we all had so much to say. BlogCamp anyone? Oh, and by the way, a quick shout-out to Matt for a completely gender-balanced panel, it was the only one I saw during my quick…
Is there a friend who you owe a phonecall or email? What’s stopping you? Seriously? I don’t think is there a friend who I *don’t* owe a phonecall or email or coffee or lunch or dinner or… I suck at keeping in touch. Why do you think I have a blog?!?!
Hey guys, As I wrestle with what Vox will be for me, I am leaning more and more to providing a consolodated view of my blogging here, here and elsewhere. Like others, I would continue to do Vox-specific posts and the QotDs (when they aren’t too invasive), but the rest would primarily be an intro with a link to the full post on unsweetened.ca or one of the CheapEats blogs. For example: CEGuides Post — FAQ: Can restaurants buy their way into CheapEats? The next most comment question is usually a variant of: “Can restaurants PAY to get into CheapEats?”…
I suck at coming up with nicknames but it’s important not to embarrass my friends unduely when telling tales online… er… I mean to respect the privacy of the people I’m hanging out with. That’s why when Creampuff told me about the brilliant Star Trek naming convention, I jumped all over it. Here’s how it goes: If you are mentioning someone in a post who: uses their real name in comments on your blog or their blog, or if you are promoting their book, event or services, use their name: eg. Kate (of mynameiskate.ca fame), Tara, Mena, Andrea already has…
Alexa is this week's Featured Member blog on Food Bloggers of Canada
Alexa was featured as View The Vibe Friday Foodie, which started with "I caught up with this social media maven a few months ago at the Oikos’ Christmas in August dinner party and she stunned the heck out of me! This Jill of all trades is a publisher, writer, food blogger, photographer and lover of all things edible. She has her own publication of restaurant guides called Cheap Eats,...
My Kensington Market tour, as part of the Ultimate Foodie Excusion, made Merry's #1 Blissdom Moment this year.
#68 Let Us Cheer You On aka Photojunkie’s one million giveaway
Check this out! Photojunkie’s almost one million! Visitors that is. The goal is to help push him over the edge before the end of the year. [yes, you can sing the song now... Cuz he's - Close - To - The - Edge...] Sure, sure, by leaving comments or blogging about this or spreading the word like wildfire you can possibly win stuff but it is more about helping him hit the target! [More Details Here] Don’t get me wrong here, if the PJ wants to give me a photojunkie print or a camera (Rannie, it really is that order…
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