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How to do a Google image search (and why you might want to) #BloggerTips

Jane had a great post about copyright issues for photographs and other images. As anyone who has visited blogs and review sites has probably noticed, people are much more cavalier about using copyrighted images to illustrate their posts than they are about appropriating text. For whatever reason, authors, reviewers, and readers who are outraged about the(…)

#BloggerTip: Using GravityForms to automate formatting of blog posts

#BloggerTip: Using GravityForms to automate formatting of blog posts

If you couldn’t tell by the last couple of weeks’ posts about Automator and Belvedere, I am a big fan of automating repetitive tasks in my life. This way I can spend more time creating content, reading or just laying about the house. I’ve been telling everyone how much I enjoyed Charles Duhigg’s book “The(…)

#BloggerTip: Working with publicists

#BloggerTip: Working with publicists

One of the panels that BEA Bloggercon has had for a couple of years is managing relationships between publishers and bloggers.  Bloggers bemoan the seemingly relentless focus on statistics, something a new blogger often stresses over. From speaking with other reviewers at BEA, there was a desire for greater discussion about relationships and not numbers. (…)

Auto Generate Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and more Buy Links for Your Blog Posts #bloggertip

Auto Generate Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and more Buy Links for Your Blog Posts #bloggertip

Introduction Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey ( A | BN | K | S ) features parents who are efficiency experts. They study tasks and reduce the number of steps to complete the tasks. To me, that is one of the coolest things ever. Many people ask me(…)