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Should You Care About Losing Blog Subscribers?

Yes. No. Maybe. It depends. I know – crappy answer, right? But each one can be applied to the question of losing blog subscribers and if you should care or not.

After all, as bloggers, we’re more often than not told that “it’s all about the list”. This usually refers to an email list, and why building one is important for your blog’s growth.

I’m not going to get into the “do I need a list or not?” question – there are plenty of other blog posts dedicated to that topic already.

No, for t...

My Social Media Story: Social Media, Me, and How I Got The Girl

This is a part of a special series looking at how social media has impacted the lives of its users. This week, the story comes from Graham Todd.

Social media means many things to many people and for some it can mean terrible things. Bullying, politics and wars and probably the next recession will be blamed on it.

But I won at social media.

I got something amazing from it and I spend my life using it and showing people how great it can be.

I run an online marketing agency – but I’m not g...

We Are All We Have

We’re born with our eyes closed, and we leave with them closed.In-between, for however long we’re on this planet, our eyes are open.

And yet, sometimes, it feels like they’ve stayed closed since our first breath in the open air.

We see colour, but we see it as something that makes people different and not in a good way.

We see love, but it’s the wrong kind of love if it’s between people not of a different sex.

We see beliefs, but we rip them down and start wars to force our own beliefs on oth...

Life

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Quote Source: George Bernard Shaw

The post Life appeared first on Pure Blogging.

Is Social Media Turning Us Into a Bunch of Voyeuristic Assholes?

Back when I was in high school in the UK, whenever there was a fight a group of kids would create a circle and encourage the combatants.

This was primarily for two reasons – one, to egg the fighters on and hopefully see blood (yeah, we were a civil bunch) and two, to ensure no-one would interrupt until the end of the fight.

We got so good at enabling this “circle of doom” that even teachers struggled to break up really good fights, and sometimes didn’t even try –...

My Social Media Story: How Blogging Saved My Life

This is a part of a special series looking at how social media has impacted the lives of its users. This week, the story comes from Nancy A. Davis.

A few years ago, life dealt me some tough blows. I lost my home. I wound up in a highly abusive relationship, and as I worked to get free from that, I got hit by a car and nearly died.

The scariest thing about being in that hospital for four days by myself was that no one knew what happened to me. I simply fell off the face of the earth so to spe...

When a Writer Stops

I have written daily since the age of seven or thereabouts.

Whether it was a poorly crafted haiku or a simple short story, the words needed to flow. My hands were a conduit, the pen (or keyboard) — a vessel — the paper and eventually the computer, a means to one end before I picked up another beginning.

And then one day not too long ago, I stopped. Or at the very least, the words dried up.

My words, my prolificacy had reached a precipice that I likened to a blood clot, best left a...

So, Seemingly, Google Thinks I’m Dead

If you recall the TV sitcom Seinfeld, you might remember that their tagline was “the show about nothing.”

Life is nothing, it seemed to say.

I always thought that was a boring tagline. But aren’t all those experiences we feel are too dullto tackle in a blog post what life is really about? And wasn’t that part of what made that show so popular?

This is why I am taken with the concept of pure blogging.

Pure Blogging At Its Heart

To me, pure blogging is all about creative freedom. The freedom to...

My Social Media Story: What Seems Like the End is Often the Beginning

This is a part of a special series looking at how social media has impacted the lives of its users. This week, the story comes from Randy Milanovic.

It was 2009. The world was being thrown into a ‘downturn’, and my visualcommunicationsfirm was starting to feel it. I was focused on my work and burning the candle at both ends.

That was of course, until I was admitted to emergency and received a stage IV cancer diagnosis. My doctors advised me to get my will in order.

10 days later I...

A Blog is Exactly What We Wish It to Be

When I first started blogging “seriously”, it was a continuation of a public relations blog that I had, back in my early solo consultancy days.

The goal was simple – to share thoughts and ideas on social media and where that fit in the business world.

For the first six months or so, I was probably way too myopic for my own good – everything was based around social media in the purest form: Don’t do this; be like that; it’s all about the conversation, blah blah blah.

And you know,...