I just hit publish on my 100th blog post on LinkedIn. When I started writing on LinkedIn nearly two and a half years ago, I wasn’t sure about what I would even write about. I just knew I wanted to write. After a few posts that attracted only a few hundred views, I struck LinkedIn… Continue reading
“OMG, I think my LinkedIn account was hacked” That’s what I thought for a good 10-15 minutes a couple of weeks ago when I was checking out my LinkedIn account. I couldn’t find any of the nearly 100 articles I’ve published in the past 2 1/2 years. I couldn’t find my profile. I tried logging out… Continue reading
Charlotte Eriksson is a 24-year-old singer-songwriter-author who has built a career out of nothing in just the past six years. Today, through the power of social media, she has attracted a global tribe of fans who love what she stands for and the art she creates. And thanks to publishing platforms like Amazon Createspace and… Continue reading
Yesterday I awoke to the sad news that William Zinsser, the writer, teacher, and author of “On Writing Well” and many other books about writing, had passed away. I wrote about Zinsser in an earlier post this year, but in the past 24 hours, I’ve had time to reflect again on what I’ve learned from him. I thought… Continue reading
More than 50,000 blog posts are published on LinkedIn every week. What topics should you write about? How long should your posts be? How do you get your post tagged under a Pulse channel? For answers to these and other questions, I invited LinkedIn Senior Editor Isabelle Roughol to join me on my new podcast, Write With Impact. Isabelle… Continue reading
My mom loves to read, and it was largely thanks to her encouragement and guidance that I too have grown to become a lifelong reader. Moms shape a child’s reading life in a number of ways: Moms are often a child’s first reading teacher. Well before programs like Hooked on Phonics were available to help kids… Continue reading
Self-publishing on Amazon is all the rage today. It gives authors of fiction and non-fiction a platform to turn their manuscript into a published book available for sale to readers around the world in a fraction of the time that it normally takes with a traditional publisher. And the profit margins are higher: compare the… Continue reading
I often struggle with the blank page. I fight to get started. I worry about what people will think. I fret over the number of “likes” and social shares that my posts will earn. And, I sometimes give up before I even get started, relegating the few words I can squeeze out of my head… Continue reading
When I was growing up in South Florida, my father would often drive our family to down to the Florida Keys to go fishing. The Keys, as they are known, is the chain of islands strung together by hundreds of bridges and stretching all the way down to Key West, which is situated at the southernmost tip of the continental United States. Down… Continue reading
Giving and receiving writing feedback has proved to be one of the toughest — but also one of the most useful and rewarding — challenges in my career as a writer and editor. I’ve worked with colleagues who have readily accepted my editorial feedback and direct edits to their work. I’ve also worked with some colleagues who have,… Continue reading