I was really honored to be selected as a media blogger for the 500 this year (I'm covering it at my Laughing Stalk humor blog). I'm sitting up here with a lot of local talent, although there are a lot ...Read More

Rules for Being a Media Blogger

I just had an article published in a special report for members of the International Association of Business Communicators to communicate during the swine flu pandemic. (Cue the "Proud Moment" music!). Anyway, this inspired me to find other resources related ...Read More

Resources for Crisis Communication Through Social Media

This post and discussions are now taking place at my company's blog, Professional Blog Service. I used to be the Risk Communication Director at the Indiana State Department of Health and one of the things we prepared for over and over ...Read More

How Social Media Can Help the Public Avoid the Swine Flu

I've been a humor writer for over 15 years, a blogger for 9, and a social networking junkie for 3. It's in the last few years that I've been really able to focus growing my non-print readership. Even though my ...Read More

How Humor Writers Can Build Up Their Blog Following

Since Twitter imposed their 2,000 following cap several months ago, many people have been frustrated by that artificial ceiling. You can overcome it if you have a fairly close 1:1 ratio of followers-to-following (actually, you can follow 10% more than ...Read More

How to Weed Out Non-Followers

Reporters and editors from the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News are starting their own online newspaper if they can raise $250,000 per month in subscription fees. The new InDenvertimes.com website needs to raise 50,000 pledges of $4.99 per month by April 23, ...Read More

Denver to Launch New Online Newspaper, Embrace Social Media. Finally.

Starting a new business can be an expensive proposition. I mean, it's scary enough to be out on your own, but then to add the startup expenses can scare the bejeezus out of many wannabe entrepreneurs. You need a phone, ...Read More

Ten Cheap or Free Apps You Need for Your Startup Business

This post and subsequent discussions can now be found at the Professional Blog Service blog. Yesterday, I talked about how local health departments (LHDs) can use Twitter to communicate about and monitor public health emergencies. I also talked about how to ...Read More

How Health Departments and First Response Agencies Can Use Twitter to Monitor Emergencies, Part 2

I had a commenter on my blog yesterday who -- rather rudely -- pointed out that in my post about British Schools Minister Jim Knight and his bad spelling, I spelled "embarrassing" wrong. I missed the second 'S.' (In my ...Read More

This is Embarrasing… Embarassing… Humiliating (My Problems with Spelling)

Neal "Taffy" Taflinger, of Indy.com posted a blogging question on my Facebook page a few days ago: Question for you, Mr. Blogger Man - is it better to blog frequently so people know there is something to read or only as ...Read More

How Often Should You Post?

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