Since this week, I’m reaching into the “tidbit treasure chest”, I thought I’d issue a challenge to my Say It For You blog readers. The concept is to help blog content writers continually come up with fresh content to educate, inform, and entertain readers (and at least indirectly, get the “cash register” to ring). Tidbits, […]
For freelance blog content writers, the tidbit “bin” turns into a treasure chest. If you’re working on a business blog and you can include interesting information most readers don’t know, that’s gold. Even if such information appears useless on the surface, if we get creative, we can put it to very good use in adding […]
“A good list is a work of art,” says Jessanne Collins, Editor-in-Chief of Mental Floss magazine. Collins herself, she admits, is biased. A list-maker by nature, she claims to have a to-do list with 17 subdivisions. And of course the magazine, which nine times a year presents facts and trivia in a humorous way, is […]
Rebecca O’Connell, writing in Mental Floss Magazine, has put together a list of 10 Shocking (Mis) Uses for Electricity. While I always tell newbie blog content writers to include lists in their blog posts (good for SEO, I’m told by my tech-savvy friends), I particularly like the idea of comparing the way things were and […]
“What’s with the New Yawk accent?” asks Arika Okrent of Mental Floss magazine, referring to the well-known tendency of New Yorkers to drop their r’s. In the 1960s, a Columbia University grad student named William Labov, hypothesizing that the missing r might be explained by social factors, tested his theory by visiting luxury department stores […]
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