I've been in the blogging community since 2009. Having recently passed the 1,000 post milestone, there are a few lessons I've learned along the way. One of the most important is there's no one correct way for everyone to blog. Each person has their own perspective and often we'll find agriculture bloggers writing about similar … Continue reading 8 Essential Do and Do Nots for Bloggers | Better Blogging
Back in 2009, I started blogging before a move to Wyoming where'd I'd be working on a ranch, out of my natural environment, 24 hours away from home, and of course my family and friends wanted to see and hear about my adventures. Considering there wouldn't be much phone service in the mountains, I figured … Continue reading 1,000 Lessons Learned From My First 1,000 Blog Posts
What do I write about next? How do I come up with a new blog post? I don’t have any inspiration! I don’t have time to think about blogging!I’ve heard these excuses so many times over the years and have even used a few myself.Writer's block is extremely difficult to overcome. Hopefully, this list can … Continue reading 88 blog topic ideas for agriculture bloggers
We've made it through the first week and a half of 2013 and I'm willing to be there's a few folks already struggling with their New Year's resolutions. For those of you who set a few goals for your social media outreach, did this include a plan to be more consistent in your blogging efforts? … Continue reading Better Blogging: 50 tips for great blog topics
A few weeks back I had the great opportunity to travel to Kentucky and visit a few friends. While there I met with a great friend and online mentor for many, Ray Bowman. Ray hosts a radio broadcast sponsored by Feedstuffs each Friday afternoon. Check out his page for more information on broadcasts. Ray and … Continue reading Food and Farm: Facilitating Online Conversations [Audio]
Not much to say today other than I am Thankful. I am Thankful for the opportunities I have to travel, to study, and to learn from many great people. Its been said many times, we become like who we surround ourselves with. I am Thankful for having so many people I admire and want to be more … Continue reading Thankful Thursday: Opportunity and Ranching Blogs
Do a google search for Agriculture Blog and you'll return a long list of great agvocates sharing the story of food production around the globe. During the past few years this trend has really taken hold, but we still have a long row to hoe in closing the gap between consumers and their food sources. … Continue reading My Favorite Agriculture Blogs
Last week I attended the AgChat conference in Nashville. The opportunity to spend 3 days putting a face with the twitter handles and avatars I have been talking to for the last year, was a pretty awesome experience. All of the online friends I talk to everyday are now real life friends. It was a … Continue reading Agendas And Social Media: War Path or Passion
One day, never been East of Memphis. Next day, boom! I'm East of Memphis! That's right, this week I'm in Nashville this for the 2011 edition of the AgChat Foundation Conference. I'm pretty excited to meet so many fellow agvocates and put a face and voice with the twitter handles and SM profiles. It should … Continue reading Nashville, Here I Come: ACFC11 Full of Bloggers
This is a portion of an email I received from an admin at Blog Farm (a site used to grow my blogs) and I thought it fit perfectly into my Better Blogging series. Be sure to read this through, enact upon it, and next week I'll share how I did something similar a few weeks ago. … Continue reading Better Blogging: Participation Required