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Turning your blog into a publication is much easier than you might think, it also has some serious benefits! Before we start getting into some simple and helpful tips on turning your blog into a publication - let's think about why we would want to do such a thing. Ever since the blog explosion around 2004 print newspapers started having a harder time keeping a hold of subscribers. People began to read blogs more than they read print publications. It doesn't mean their brand loyalty was completely gone, it's just safe to assume that their subscribers were seeking out a new medium to find his/her news.
A completely successful blog is a Web site like TMZ (The Thirty Mile Zone), which now has a very large following, a staff of over twenty people, and a daily television show on Fox. Similarly a blog like X17Online, which is now one of the top Web sites for celebrity gossip. Completely started online, the photographers decided to start making the news instead of sending the photographs to people who published it. Simple lesson there, ...
Time management is a skill that every single person will never stop learning. Just like communication, time management is a skill that we will only get better at, but will never be completely amazing at doing. There are some communication exemptions, for example I believe that Randy Pausch is one of the best communicators I have ever listened to, but that's another subject.
Managing every single minute of your life is hard. Especially for someone who is creative. I have always believed that creative individuals need time to reflect, recognize, and cultivate new idea's for their next adventure. I was never totally certain about this theory until it was basically confirmed to me by an employer (Slight nudge to Andy Sernovitz of GasPedal).
For an individual who is so driven, much like myself (no ego-stroke there), I find it extremely hard to find time to wind-down. I have recently found it even harder to do the things I love, like writing posts on this Web site. I find it difficult to keep up friendships, or relationships. All of which I find way too valuable to ...
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Patrick has not had a chance to test the redesign in IE, so if you are an IE user, let me first suggest Firefox, then let me say sorry! IE fixes shortly.