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  Copyblogger Weekly Wrap Week of January 17, 2011

  5120 readersI took last weekend off. It was a mini-vacation with my wife, wherein the objective was to get away from the kids and dogs and “do nothing, in peace and quiet” for a while. Consequently, I discovered that I’ve become damaged goods. Back in the day, I was able to lay around and do nothing

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  Copyblogger Weekly Wrap: Week of May 9, 2011

  4436 readersThis week, I went to Target, bought a $30 desk, built a stand that would raise it 18 inches in the air, stuck my in-laws’ unused treadmill under it, and made myself a walking desk. (I know the monitor needs to move up. You’re looking at the 1.0 iteration.) Yes, I know it’s a weird

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  Johnny’s Copyblogger Wrap-Up: Week of April 26, 2010

  3314 readersSometimes I sit down to write the introductions to these weekly wrap-ups, and I’ll try to think of some funny way to describe why you or I might not have seen this week’s posts. This week, however, I don’t really have to try to find a reason, because I’ve been frantically launching my Question the

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  Copyblogger Weekly Wrap: Week of September 27, 2010

  1264 readersThose who stalk me (and you know who you are) know that I’ve been talking a lot lately about “Storyselling,” which is a way to sell stuff using stories. But nothing is infallible, so I wanted to publicly announce some flaws I’ve found with it: Don’t use Storyselling with the police. Tell them about Uncle

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  Copyblogger Weekly Wrap: Week of May 2, 2011

  4343 readersThe other day while out riding my bike, I was accosted by three turkeys. I’m not kidding. The turkeys were crossing the road, and I was screaming down a hill at them. I hit the brakes but they didn’t flinch at all — and then, they advanced menacingly. I was able to make an initial

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  Johnny’s Copyblogger Wrap-Up: Week of April 5, 2010

  3678 readersIf you’re like me, you may have missed a lot of this week’s Copyblogger content because you ate so much Easter chocolate last weekend that you: passed out in the center aisle at Wal-Mart were declared dead by Mort, the acting manager were incorrectly tagged at the morgue due to budget cuts were shipped off to a medical school

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  5 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Page

  7217 readersAt Mediabistro’s Socialize West conference last week, InfiniGraph CEO Chase McMichael offered some simple advice to improve your Facebook page. His advice focused on some common problems that affect publishers, authors and readers on Facebook. 1. Make a Facebook landing page. Users with a specific landing page (instead of a regular Facebook wall page) generate 44 percent

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  Copyblogger Weekly Wrap: Week of April 11, 2011

  6332 readersI always find myself having to explain what it means to have “internet relationships.” Last month, I went to South by Southwest. Next month, I’m going to Blogworld (I’m actually presenting at Blogworld, but sadly don’t have enough people “interested” on my event page yet — hint, hint). I go to these events, and I

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  Copyblogger Weekly Wrap: Week of February 14, 2011

  2981 readersThis Monday was Valentine’s Day, which is one of those rare days my wife Robin and I go out without the kids and then realize that we’ve forgotten how to converse without being constantly interrupted. So, in an attempt at some sense of normalcy, I started banging my silverware on the table and demanding to

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  Copyblogger Weekly Wrap: Week of April 18, 2011

  6197 readersI can’t believe I missed my anniversary. Not my wedding anniversary, of course — we know from stand-up comedians that men never forget those — but rather my anniversary as writer of the Copyblogger Weekly Wrap. The first Wrap ran on March 27 of last year. With the exception of the time I got fired