by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jun 10, 2013 | Blogging
I was listening to a good audiobook recently on the writing process called Accidental Genius. The premise of the whole book can basically be summed up in one sentence: Free writing does a body good. The act of free writing (of putting down things on paper without...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | May 29, 2013 | Blogging, Twitter, Twitter for Good
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about Twitter for Good, a book I wrote about using Twitter well. When I wrote that book I also launched an online video course alongside it. But things change, and it’s time for that course to sunset (at least for 2013)....
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | May 27, 2013 | Blogging
I love me some blogging, and have since 2006, when I started my first blog. The other day I gave you a complete step-by-step tutorial for how to launch your own self-hosted blog on WordPress. In response to the post, I got lots of questions from readers about starting...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | May 7, 2013 | Blogging, Business
{Have you checked out the free 7-day Start Your Blog Challenge? Sign up here. Want a free PDF ebook of these instructions? Go here. Starting a blog is one of the very best things that ever happened to me, and I love to share with folks why blogging is a great...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | May 1, 2013 | Blogging, Business
Claire here. You’re on my blog, ClaireDiazOrtiz.com, where I write things. Good things, bad things, things in the middle between bad and good. Today, I’m writing to ask you a kinda weird thing. Here goes. What do you need? Yup. Is there a way that I can...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jan 17, 2013 | Blogging
One day last week, I had a bit of a field day learning about unverified (or “unconfirmed”) email newsletter subscribers. Although most people are able to find something more normal to become obsessed with for a 5 hour period (a difficult jigsaw puzzle, a...