For the final installment in my series of blogs that didn't make Michael Stelzner's Top 10, but (IMHO) deserve "honorable mention," I'd like to suggest including these blogs--one that deals with writing for marketing purposes and one that deals with a topic of interest to writers (which I categorized as "miscellaneous"--and I do hope I punctuated that correctly). To wit:
Small Business
Business and Blogging -- Whether you're a business (including a freelance writing business) seeking to market yourself through blogging, a freelance blogger or someone seeking to make money from ad revenue on blogs, this is the blog for you. It is, in fact, a blog about blogging--business blogging in particular. Now, blogging about blogging might sound solipsistic (but, then, so does writing about writing, and writers have certainly done that often enough), but it isn't at all. In B&B, Laura Spencer and Liz Fuller have created a highly informative, helpful and entertaining resource. They write, for instance, about various corporations and business entities that use blogs (like Major League Baseball and Dell). They explore the many different types of businesses that might blog, such as air conditioning repair companies or fashion stores (Macy's, Lord & Taylor and a slew of others didn't; Nordstrom did). They offer advice on effective blogging--how to keep blogging from becoming a chore, how to recycle old blog posts (a dozen ways!), the importance of responding to comments and how to avoid plagiarism and copyright violations when you blog, just to name a few. And every week, there's the Sunday "Coffee Break"--a blogging news roundup. Polished, well-designed, consistent in look and tone and well-written--it's a professional blogger's blog if there ever was one.
Miscellaneous Writing Topics
The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks -- It's amazing how many people use quotation marks for the wrong reasons--for emphasis, to jazz up the writing or for who-knows-what purpose. Bethany Keeley (with an occasional assist from her friend, Brian Atkinson) has been posting photos (many of which are sent in by readers) and funny commentary about these gaffes since 2005. Keeley's takes on the misused marks are often hysterical, such as this, this, this, this, this and this. Oh, and I like this one, too, not to mention this (which made my stomach queasy thinking about it). And I can't leave out this one and I couldn't forget to mention this or this. Basically, there are too many great posts to choose from (and I can't seem to find the one I remember, where the quoted words were interpreted as being code for a ship sailing at dawn or something like that . . . but I found all these others while I was looking), and I skipped plenty that are also worthy of checking out. Anyone who appreciates good writing or a good play on words will find plenty to enjoy from this site.
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