LinkedIn for Bloggers – How to Create a Killer Profile It doesn’t matter if you are a full-time or part-time blogger, it’s critically important to have a LinkedIn profile. As the blogging industry continues to mature, it has...
Introverts Guide to Blogging Conferences
Blogging conference season is well under way. There are a ton of conference guides out there and I wouldn’t dare to duplicate them, but I haven’t seen one out there for introverts. As a member of that “tribe”, I...
My Blog Income
At the beginning of the year, I shared my blogging tools. These tools are the ones I have been using over the past eight-plus years, both free and paid. I think bloggers are always experimenting with what works best...
My Blogging Tools – How I Get It Done
Over the eight and a half years that Misadventures with Andi has been around, I’ve had a lot of people ask me about what blogging tools I use to make the magic happen. To be honest, there are two...
7 Years
Let the good times roll! Apparently I can’t do math. But I think you knew that about me. In last month’s Currently I said that I was going to be celebrating my eighth anniversary. Wrong. I am celebrating my...
Social Media Sunday – Blog Tools and Trainings
I have found myself answering the question about what tools I use a lot lately, mainly offline over lunch and coffee. But I have also received emails asking what I use for “this” or “that.” So I decided to...
Social Media Sunday – Protect Yourself with 2-Factor Authentication
I have been wanting to write this post for a while, but it was another friend getting their Gmail account hacked this week that prompted me to complete it. These days, hacking is a weekly event, on the news...
Social Media Sunday – That Darn Google Reader
The demise of Google Reader is not new news. There have been hints of it for sometime, but last week Google confirmed that the RSS will definitely be going away July 1st. There are a ton of great articles...
Social Media Sunday – The Patron Project – Cultivating the Next Generation of Artists
A few weeks ago I had the honor and the privilege of attending a very special launch event for The Patron Project, a collaborative effort from TRI (Tamalpais Recording Institute) the studios owned by The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir...
Social Media Sunday – Honing your blogging content
About a year or so into my blogging career I began floundering a bit, not really sure of the direction I was going with this space or having a true understanding of how I could improve metrics such as...
Social Media Sunday – My Blog Giveaway Tips
I thought I would use this week’s Social Media Sunday to cover my thoughts and tips on giveaways. I have done giveaways for the past several years here on Misadventures with Andi and in a professional capacity as a...
POV: Bloggers to Brands – focus on the influenced
As I mentioned in this past Saturday Six, I attended the Radian6 User Conference (Social2011) in Boston last week. Radian6 is a social media engagement tool that allows companies (or agencies) to listen, measure and engage with their customers...