You're not in the Blogging Military

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Give me a break. Give you a break. Sometimes, we all need a break, and doing so can definitely help with your productivity as a blogger. Yesterday, I gave you The #1 Secret to Being a More Productive Blogger, but I think this tip is a close second. Get away from your computer. Relax. Dare … [Read more]

The #1 Secret to Being a More Productive Blogger

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There aren’t enough hours in the day.* Even if you give up your boring desk job and become a full time blogger, There’s barely enough time to finish doing the things you have to do, let alone the things you want to do for your blog. If you’re anything like me, you could easily spend … [Read more]

Five Ways to Keep Up with all this New Media Crap

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So, if you’re reading this, you’re likely a blogger. The idea of a blog probably sounded pretty good when you started – the freedom and flexibility of a low cost publishing platform, whether to promote yourself, your businesses, or maybe you’re paid to blog and promote someone else’s businesses. But now, you need to Tweet … [Read more]

Online Productivity: How To Work Where You Play

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They say that if you do what you like, you’ll never work a day in your life. That statement might be truer than you think – especially if the “where” is online. Online Community Managers, aside for creating excitement around their brands, spend quite a lot of their free time online, too. After a while, many of us find that our work time either eclipses our play time, or that they just bleed into each other and you end up trying to do both at once. And that’s never a good idea. So here are some simple ideas I’ve put into practice over the past few months – and they seem to be workout out pretty well! They’re all stuff I picked up from regularly-read blogs like Mashable and TechCrunch – you know, those “How to Be Productive…” type articles. Just a disclaimer: I am an unorganized mess if I don’t give myself rules. So if I can do it – anyone can!