5323 readersI discovered this week that Copyblogger has strong fans among the 2-year-old set. While working on the Wrap Thursday morning and clicking through posts on the homepage, my daughter Sydney became increasingly excited as I scrolled up from the bottom: “Look at that boy!” “Ice cream!!” “Flower!!!” Makes me wonder if we’ve done proper SEO
6453 readersBy the time you read this, if I’m lucky, I’ve been to Blogworld Expo in New York, having presented a blockbuster session which wowed crowds who, overwhelmingly grateful, lavished much affection and chocolate on me, and have returned, safe and sound, to great fanfare and welcome. If I’m not lucky, I’m still sitting in the
2743 readersMy birthday was on Wednesday (I turned 17 and my dad says I can drive his car to the prom – SCORE!), and I got about fifty billion of those little Facebook notifications of people writing on my wall to say Happy Birthday. Got a ton of tweets saying the same. And now I think
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
5632 readersA week ago yesterday, this post ran here on Copyblogger, all about how I’m actually a woman. Not coincidentally, a week ago yesterday was also April 1st, widely known as April Fool’s Day. So, the whole thing was the drunken brainchild of me and James Chartrand, who actually did make that revelation for real. (In
4466 readersI didn’t write the Wrap last week because Brian didn’t figure many people would be cruising Copyblogger over the holiday weekend, but I think that’s just yet another ethnocentric case of an American arrogantly assuming that his readership isn’t entirely composed of obsessive-compulsive Danish copywriting sailors with a high-bandwidth nautical Wi-Fi connection onboard their schooners.
6199 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
2948 readersI talked to my Dad last week, who asked tongue-in-cheek if I was ready for the final year of existence on Planet Earth, seeing as the world was scheduled to end in either a planetary collision or a Justin Bieber concert on December 21st of 2011. “No, Dad,” I said. “You’re thinking of 2012.” “I’m
3553 readersI don’t mean to complain because I’m happy to have this gig, but honestly it’s kind of a rip-off that I do all this work on this wrapup and then realize that it’s going to run on the same day as the apocalypse. Although I have to admit that I’ve been suspecting as much ever
2833 readersI’ve been hard at work this week on Profitable Idealism, my new venture with Pace Smith, who coincidentally wrote Thursday’s post below. It’s all about combining altruistic, selfless motives with business aims, and so naturally it got me thinking about how I can help the Copyblogger community while making tons of money doing so. So