Your Blogging Questions Answered
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
You’ve been asking questions and I finally have some answers. But first, a great big thank you to everyone who makes time to read and comment on the blog. As I’ve learned to say since moving to Tennessee, “I appreciate ‘cha.”
For once in my life, I have just as many answers as questions. So, in response to your comments, here we go.
Q: May I use information from the blog on my web site, in a research paper, or post it as a PDF?
A.: Absolutely yes. The whole purpose of the blog is to share it with readers. All I ask is that you give source attribution and a link back to the web site.
Q: Do you have a Facebook page?
A: Yes. We do now. There’s also a Facebook fan box on the blog. If you like what you read, I hope you’ll give us a big Facebook “like” as well.
Q: Are you on Twitter?
A: Yes. You can find us on Twitter @JuicyIdeasBlog. We haven’t had time to do much with it yet, but now you can follow and Tweet about the blog.
Q: Do you do a lot of research in order to write the blog?
A: Absolutely not. The blog framework is creativity in life and business. The content is based on personal experience, observation, and things that have stimulated my imagination, usually the latest book that I’m reading.
Q: Do you write guest blogs?
A: I haven’t written a guest blog, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t, especially if the subject matter was within my domain.
Q: Are you a genius?
A: I can’t believe that several people have asked this. It’s very flattering, but no, I am absolutely NOT a genius, or anything close. I’m just a person who works at the craft of writing when not working with clients.
Q: Why don’t you post more often?
A: I’ve been working on a creative project that has demanded a lot of time. In fact, we’ll introduce it on the blog very soon because I would really appreciate your feedback. Also, I write somewhat lengthy original posts and it just takes awhile for them to find their way on to the page.
Q: Will you review my web site?
A: I’m flattered that you ask, but that’s the kind of work that we do for clients and there just isn’t enough time to do it for fun.
Q: What Word Press template do you use?
Our very talented art director Susan Bachman created the blog template. Our developers took the custom design and did the Word Press set-up.
Q: How do you manage spam?
A: We just installed a Word Press plug-in called Akismet and it really kills the spam. There is a free version, but I opted to pay $5.00 a month for the premium service. If you’ve got spam issues, go right now and get Akismet. It rocks.
Q: Will you trade links with my web site?
A: Again, I appreciate that you ask, but the answer is no. We don’t have time to review sites to see if they’re compatible with our content.
Q: Do you know that your site has display issues in Opera, Chrome, and Mozilla for Mac?
A: Yes. We know. And we’ve updated our version of Word Press and resolved those issues. At least, I hope we have. Let me know if still have a problem. We’ll do our best, but we don’t have the resources to support every version of every browser that’s out there.
Q: Why don’t you use video in your blog?
A: When we started the blog we were more interested in creating strong written content. If we introduce video to the blog it will be because it brings added value to our readers. I’m just not sure that this blog, unlike another that we’re doing, would benefit from video. But, we’re thinking about it.
Okay. That’s everything you wanted to know about the Conversations with Juice blog and then some.
Again, thank you for reading (maybe I should do a video thank you…hmm). See you again real soon.
