For the past eight weeks I’ve been participating in a program called Gignite, a side-gig incubator founded by Olivia Barrow who wrote for the Dayton Business Journal for a few years and is now a writer and entrepreneur in Madison, WI. Here’s some of her description of Gignite from her website: Gignite is an 8-week […]
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New Website on Dayton History, Development
Another year, another new website for me. And I’m really excited that this one might turn into something bigger. I’ve been living and working here in Dayton, Ohio for nearly five years now, and it didn’t take long for me to become fascinated by the city and its history. I probably couldn’t have located Dayton […]
How Do You Evaluate the Blogs and Websites You Visit?
If you’ve been in school in the last decade or so, you were probably given a handout at some point explaining how to evaluate internet sources. These documents usually give a list of criteria to inspect on a website so you can determine whether it is authoritative and reliable. I remember being told to investigate […]
Getting Blog Visitors From Google Maps and the Growing Impact of Local Search
Update: Late in June 2011, Google pulled third-party reviews from its Places pages in order to emphasize reviews from Google users. They did keep a small link to other sites around the web with reviews, however, so traffic generation is still possible. As I was checking the analytics for my sites the other day, I […]
Why Blogs are Peer Reviewed Sources
In academia, peer review is the process that is supposed to separate the trustworthy from the unreliable, the conclusive from the flawed, the groundbreaking from the mundane. Before a work can be published, a rigorous review by a carefully selected group of scholars in the same field is necessary in order to ensure a high […]
How to Organize Your Blog for Better Navigation
For any website, your goal is to have visitors stick around and engage, not just scan the home page and leave. Navigation is not so difficult for a basic five page website, but when you have a blog with five posts published every single week, it’s much more difficult to guide readers to some of […]