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Re: Nervous but Successful Afternoon at BlogIN

Lorraine Ball — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:18:20 -0000

Content over form every day.. and your content was solid..

Quick question, when i change the permalinks, wordpress can't find any of my old blog posts? does it take wordpress awhile to find them? or do i need to just suck it up and change the htaccessfile.

And now to be a complete novice.. where is my htaccess file?

Re: Four Blogging Mistakes I Should Have Avoided

Lorraine Ball — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:41:24 -0000

Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely look at it.

In the mean time, my solution to # 3 was to create separate blogs for different topics. While it allows me to focus my writing for each audience, it t is sometimes exhausting trying to generate that much fresh content.

I would love to hear opinions of others. separate blogs, or risk alienating some of your readers?

Re: The Ups and Downs of a Domain Move

Lorraine Ball — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:47:06 -0000

Congrats on your new home.

I moved www.Indy-Biz.com several times, from blogger to Lorraineball.com to its current and final home. I think the short term dip in traffic was worth it to get it named correctly.

Did you post any notes to on-line news sources about the change?

Re: links for 2008-07-22

Lorraine Ball — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:17:56 -0000

You always have the best links. I love the link to Web Grader. I even ran the report, and was pleasantly surprised with my results.

Thanks!

Re: links for 2008-07-24

Lorraine Ball — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:16:27 -0000

I have made the trip to the Bean Cup to be your friend, at least with the magic of photo shop..

Check out:
http://lorraineball.com/2008/07/i-am-doug-karrs...

Re: How to Add Cuil to your Firefox Search

Lorraine Ball — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:00:38 -0000

So what is your take on Cuil? I have done a few searches, and I am not sure how I feel about the format, but there does seem to be less junk rising to the top.

Re: How to Update a WordPress Event Sidebar from iCal using Google Calendar (and other Google Fun!)

Lorraine Ball — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:29:50 -0000

This was great! The calendar feed from my event list is the perfect addition to my PR site - www.indy-biz.com!

Once again proving you are the go to guy on Wordpress! Thanks!

Re: Starbucks: Inflation and Devaluation of a Brand

Lorraine Ball — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:26:16 -0000

Your article is right on the spot. There is no Starbucks Experience any longer, and I never even liked the burnt beans to begin with.

So perhaps a great, brave local coffee shop will open in one of the locations Starbucks is moving out of, and show them how it should be done!

Re: Will your Word Count Impact Visits?

Lorraine Ball — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:30:38 -0000

I tend to write shorter posts because I am afraid of reader fatigue. Glad to see that shouldn't be my biggest concern.

Re: BlueLock Video: Cloud Computing

Lorraine Ball — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:15:23 -0000

I loved the Big Switch. It really gave me a completely different way of looking at computing and the internet. As the technology evolves, the migration to a Cloud Computing environment makes sense for companies of all sizes.

And Brian did a really good job of explaining in this video!

Re: Marketing Guru’s, equality and attraction

Lorraine Ball — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:03:32 -0000

Great post. Particularly liked the concept of attraction - One element of attraction is confidence. If you know your message is valuable, and simply put it out there, people will find it.

When you are not sure people will want it you are more likely to push it out there.

My advice, spend more time focusing on your content and less on pushing it out there.

Re: The advertising question

Lorraine Ball — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:08:17 -0000

I have taken the same strategy with my blog. I have items for sale elsewhere on the website, and if folks are interested they can find them, but I, like you prefer to keep the blog about information

Re: Building your twitter network

Lorraine Ball — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:19:02 -0000

Great idea. As a Small Business Marketing Consultant Twitter is a Great Tool to gather data and distribute info

Re: In Search of Brevity

Lorraine Ball — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:30:58 -0000

Worked in company which had a "Notes" system, similar to Twitter for internal communication 20 years ago. Good concept, but the problem, if people ran over they just sent another note. So you ended up with 10 notes on a subject. It is easier to keep talking till you get it right.