I’ve started contributing to a new collaboration that I couldn’t be more excited about. Azeem Ahzar and Marija Gavrilov have asked me to curate and summarize each week’s stories of climate change mitigation success and momentum for the amazing email newsletter Exponential View. It’s an amazing opportunity to work with information (as I like to Read More…
Category: Blogging
How to be valuable online in 2018
You know what kind of year-end blog posts are most valuable? In my mind, it’s ones highlighting the best or most successful content someone’s published throughout the whole year. That editorial winnowing down is a great value add. One good example is Marketing Sherpa’s Best of 2017: MarketingSherpa’s most popular content about email, customer-first marketing, Read More…
About this blog (Q4 2017)
Blogs deserve love. As simple self-publishing technology, they have the potential to transform the world. This one’s helped transform my life – but I’ve been neglecting it. I’d like to try to change that. Since moving from Google’s Blogger.com to my own self-hosted WordPress site here at Marshallk.com 12 years ago, this site has grown Read More…
How Some People Blog Every Day
I used to write, no joke, 12 to 15 blog posts every day. For a few years, when I was just getting started, I was prolific. Blogging has led to millions of dollars for me to get my business started. But now I’m a founder of a company with 15 people on the team – Read More…
Life After Blogging?
I used to blog every day. Heck, I used to write 4 posts every day for AOL, 6 on forex as a subcontracted writer for a CMS company and 3 long form interviews (with people like Mark Cuban) per week for the non-profit Netsquared. Now I struggle to put up one post a month here Read More…
Could personal blogs be like the bullpen, to warm-up in for the big league game?
As social network publishing platforms get bigger and better, it gets harder to stay focused on publishing on your own piddly little blog. Could there be a symbiotic relationship between the two, though? It’s hard not to be impressed by the major publishing outlet that LinkedIn is becoming. Entrepreneur Lewis Howes wrote an instructive guest Read More…
Blogging is alive, well and very inspiring
Above, WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg speaks to a full house at WordCamp Portland. I posted this photo on Instagram along with a note about how publishing used to be the exclusive domain of those who could afford to own a printing press. I’m attending WordPress Portland for the first time in years today and Read More…