Akismet Spam Blocker

One of my favorite features on WordPress is the Akismet spam blocker.  Like your email account, your blog can easily be spammed with “Comments” that are XXX rated junk.  And if you don’t moderate your comments, that trash might worm its way onto your blog before you know it.
Akismet gives you the option of viewing your [...]

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Build-a-Blog Workshop Part II: Public vs. Private

So you’ve jumped right in and grabbed a piece of the Internet for yourself by blogging.  Maybe you’ve even gone a step further and purchased a domain name for your blog as you try to build a brand.  You’re posting about whatever thrills you and makes you laugh, maybe even uploading a head shot of [...]

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Get Blogging!

I can’t say enough good things about blogging as a way for us writing mommies to sharpen our pencils, so to speak.  Type, click, insta-publishing for the whole wide world to read.
That being said, I also can’t say enough about placing limits on what you blog and defining the purpose of your blog before you [...]

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Moving Day, Blog-Style

I’m in the midst of a big changeroo on how this blog is organized.  I’ll be getting rid of the static pages (most of them) and reorganizing by category.  It’s going to be a little crazy while I do this; hang in there!  It should be better by the time I’m done!
WM

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NaBloPoMo

I found this on another blogger’s page and just had to share it with the world. 
Taking from Nanowrimo,NaBloPoMo is short for National Blog Posting Month.  You can go to their site and sign up with the goal being to post every day for the month of November.  Cool way to jumpstart your blogging life!
My NanoCount [...]

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Upcoming changes for Writer-Mommy

Sometimes, you just gotta do a thing, get it started and running for a while so you can step back and look at the big picture of what you’ve created. 
That’s how I feel about this blog; I really had a vision of what it should be so I built it to that vision.  Now as [...]

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Build-a-Blog Workshop, Part 1: Before You Blog

The title of this post, if you haven’t figured it out or aren’t subjected to the whimsical wantings of a six-year-old girl, is a play on the Build-A-Bear Workshops that have sprung up all over the place in the last few years.   Mommies, it’s not enough to just buy your darling little princess that teddy [...]

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Let’s Get Social, Bloggy-Style

I want to begin by saying ZOWIE!  You drop off the edge of the internet for a year or so to have a third baby, switch careers, sell a house, and move your family (which all happened to your darling WM in the span of about 10 months in 2006) and things change fast!
So, forgive me [...]

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