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Why I Love Pinterest: from a content consumer’s perspective

Before you continue reading, I should say that this is NOT a post about how to use Pinterest to grow your blog. There are plenty of those– just look on Pinterest!

To come back to my main point, I’d like to share why I love Pinterest as a content consumer. That’s right; yes I’m a blogger and I do use Pinterest to effectively grow my blog audience, but I also use it to find the information I need. I use it for purposes completely unrelated to my blog, and have found it to be the most useful social media platform.

I can’t share a post about Pinterest, however, without mentioning that one of my posts was pinned over 7,000 times! That’s a lot for my blog, and I would not have gotten that much exposure without Pinterest. Mostly I’m grateful that people enjoyed and shared the post; and also that Pinterest is, more and more, becoming an effective way to find useful content. But, I’m getting ahead of myself.

So, why do I love Pinterest? Let me count the ways…

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5 Simple Photography Tips for the Hobbyist

Photography can be intimidating. There are hundreds of different cameras, techniques and editing programs. Serious photographers have also developed their own style, mood and Lightroom actions. So where is the non-professional hobbyist to start?

This post was originally titled, “Lessons My Husband Taught Me about Photography”— because that’s exactly what I’m sharing today. Aaron is my photographer-hero, not least because when I realized that I wanted to learn more about the craft, he already had a range of gadgets for me to try. He himself is a hobby photographer, though I personally think he could go professional if he wanted to.

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Why You Should Comment on Blogs (whether you’re a blogger or not)

There are bloggers who have blogging down to the numbers. They’ve figured out where their readers live, what their readers click on, and even how old their readers are. Thanks to trusty Google Analytics and the occasional reader survey, lots of these figures are accessible to an online writer.

But what about opinions? Personalities, experiences, and interests? How will a blogger know who you really are– apart from your demographic and the links you like?

Only if you comment.

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How To Start Writing (Again)

Whether you’re composing an application essay for college or graduate school, or trying to produce a blog post that just isn’t working, or coming back to writing after a multi-year hiatus, personal writing can be intimidating. It is an undertaking that exposes the author more ruthlessly than many other modes of expression (e.g., poor little Kyle). So how can we get over the initial trepidation to the land flowing with eloquence and insight?…Continue Reading

Instagram and Other Fake Lives

I recently read anop-ed in the New York Times that encourages us to look closely at the lives we portray on social media– and question whether it deprives us of true happiness. Envy, the author says, often drives or proceeds from our portrayals of perfection in cyberspace; not only do we desire to imitate others, we also desire to outdo others. And in the meantime, we are missing out on real life.

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