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10
Feb
The Button Dance

Hajra Khatoon calls it “the button dance.” That sounds so much more charming than, “Like me, vote for me, share me, +1 me, Tweet me, Luv me…” Clickety-click-clack-clack. The button dance. Your fingers dance lightly on the keys, in an intricate, contrapuntal, frenzied frolic reflective of the synapses firing in your brain. Random As and Es and R, S, T, L, Ns become words. Words become partners in a line dance of sentences, sentences align in well-choreographed paragraphs. Paragraphs whirl around the page in an intricate and beautiful dance. Please, please – do the button dance.

Or you could just stomp on this big ol’ +1 sucker once or twice with your meaty middle finger, and help me win a cool $250 in Blog Engage’s February Guest Blogging Contest:


Excerpt: Beware of drive-by guest bloggers offering to write free articles for your website. You may say, “But I’m not a writer. I can’t turn down free content!” You know that you need fresh content to attract buyers, and guest posts seem like an answer to all your prayers. Free? Even better. But when a writer appears out of nowhere, offers to write you unique posts – exclusively yours – in exchange for a backlink or two; remember that “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” Your rich, overseas fourth cousin, seven times removed, did not just die and leave you a database overflowing with free PANDA food.

For the rest of my contest entry, go read Drive-by Guest Bloggers: The Dangers of Spun and PLR Content. If you like it, there are a few more buttons, there, for your fingers to dance with.

My friend, Abhi Balani, also does the button dance – and would appreciate a few readers to join in, there, too. Gosh, it’s a regular party in the blogosphere!

Got a button dance going on your blog? Why not leave a comment? (After you’ve exhausted yourself dancing, there’s an open bar, lots of chairs, and people who will be happy to take their turn on the dance floor – just tell us where the hottest parties are, down below!)

About the Author

Holly Jahangiri is a professional writer with over twenty years’ experience in technical writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Writer, wife, and mother, Holly is the creator of Trockle and the instigator of the Puppy-Guppy Rebellion.

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13
Jan
Blog Engage Goodies to Give Away!

Okay, I have to do this quick, before Prunebutt catches me – you all know how he and Dave hate my “metablogging.” But the fact is, one of the prizes I won in Weblogbetter’s Surviving the Blog Contest includes a Blog Engage membership – one of those swanky business-level memberships that lets me share the goodies with my friends – each and every month! I have FIVE BLOG ENGAGE ACCOUNTS to give away, this month, along with one Gold membership (for a whole year!!). Here’s how to enter (see, I’m also trying out my nifty new Rafflecopter thingamabob):


a Rafflecopter giveaway

That’s all there is to it! Fun, huh?

If you’re not familiar with Blog Engage, it’s a site that helps you to promote your blog posts – it’s a way to get your latest posts out there in front of a community of active, engaged bloggers and help drive more traffic (that’s “readers” and “eyeballs”) to your blog. And let’s be honest – who really writes a blog just to let it sit there lonely and unread? Whether you’re hoping to generate a little extra spending money or just increase your fame and garner fans, a site like Blog Engage can be really helpful. Just enter for your chance to give it a try – for free!

For even more information and more chances to win, visit OddBlogger and read Abhi Balani’s thoughts on Blog Engage. You can enter there, as well! Maybe he should have included membership in Blog Engage as one of his “signs of a good blogger“!

About the Author

Holly Jahangiri is a professional writer with over twenty years’ experience in technical writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Writer, wife, and mother, Holly is the creator of Trockle and the instigator of the Puppy-Guppy Rebellion.

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11
Jan
A Little Bit of SOPA Will Wash Away the Internet as We Know It

I’ve censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet–a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit: http://americancensorship.org/posts/35498/uncensor

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Uncensor This

http://americancensorship.org/supporters.html

About the Author

Holly Jahangiri is a professional writer with over twenty years’ experience in technical writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Writer, wife, and mother, Holly is the creator of Trockle and the instigator of the Puppy-Guppy Rebellion.

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01
Jan
Resolute in 2012

I used to joke that my only New Year’s resolution, going forward, would be to “Make no more stupid New Year’s resolutions I have no intention of keeping.” Well, I don’t intend to break that one now. Why would anyone “resolve” to do something they don’t intend to do? Why “resolve” to do anything if we feel no particular motivation and are not fully committed to doing it? So my tongue-in-cheek resolution turns out to be a serious one, and remains unbroken to this day. I have found the following passage to be a great reminder of the importance of commitment in achieving goals: more…

About the Author

Holly Jahangiri is a professional writer with over twenty years’ experience in technical writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Writer, wife, and mother, Holly is the creator of Trockle and the instigator of the Puppy-Guppy Rebellion.

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27
Nov
Scavenger Hunt!

Since this was such a hit last time (I think I had one entrant), and so much fun (for me, anyway), I’m going to run it again!

Remember scavenger hunts? This online scavenger hunt involves a little searching, a little creativity, a little effort, and (I hope) a whole lot of silly fun. more…

About the Author Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri has decades of experience in tech writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Writer, wife, and mother, Holly is the creator of Trockle and instigator of the Puppy-Guppy Rebellion.

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