The Parable Of The Employer, The Employee And The Blogger

Friday, October 31st, 2008 at 9:37 pm  
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There was an employee who throughout his employment did an OK job and was considered by his boss to be a half decent bloke. There came a time when the employee wanted to try his hand somewhere else and he handed in his notice. His boss was sorry to see him go but thanked him nevertheless and tried to make his remaining days pleasant ones.


On the final day the employee left without even saying goodbye. The boss, short a man, had to do his job only to find that he had not done it properly leaving him to clean up the mess. I tell you that the boss will only remember the mess his former employee left and will not remember all the good that he had done previously.

The moral of this story is not to stuff up your good reputation by slacking off on your last day as it may come back to bite you in the ass.

There is a lesson here for all bloggers to take heed of, that every post is important and a blogger should only submit a post if it is the best that he can produce. This is especially true for those bloggers who have committed to post at least once everyday. I say to you, that it is better to miss a day or two rather than to publish a sub standard post.

The thing is that you never know which page a visitor may land on and it may well be that one post that should never have been published. It could cost you a subscriber or at the very least increase your bounce rate. Do it often enough and your reputation as a reputable blogger is sure to suffer. So, take my advice and scrutinize every post before hitting the submit button, and if you are not completely satisfied, it is far better to delete or to save it as a draft in order to tweak it for a later date.

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Interact With Other Bloggers On Blog Engage The Real Social Bookmarking Site

Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 6:03 am  
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Just the other day I was reading a post titled 50 Social Bookmarking Sites. What Are The Top 5-10 Most Popular? The intention of the post was to get the commentators opinion on the subject, so that the author could make up his mind as to which ones to include when he installs his latest social bookmarking plugin.

I was the only one that mentioned Blog Engage and I find that quite surprising. You see, there is one thing that sets Blog Engage apart from most of the other bookmarking sites. Let me quote you an important portion of the Blog Engage FAQ.

Blog Engage, allows you to submit your Blog Article(s) that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page. When a user submits a new Blog Article(s) it will be placed in the “upcoming blog ” area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page.

The ideal of Blog Engage is to promote interaction between bloggers by “Engaging” with each other’s blogs. Interaction that builds up quality comments and interactive discussions!

Can you see the main difference? Most of the other popular sites actually frown on you submitting your own post! Some will even penalize you or cancel your account, I know because I had it done to me. Not Blog Engage as Brian, the owner, wants you to submit those posts that you think are worthy to be appraised by your blogging peers. Naturally you can also submit posts from other bloggers that you want to share with the rest of the blogosphere.

Out of all the sites that I am a member of I can honestly say that Blog Engage is my favorite and the one that I use over and above all the others put together. I have even installed the WordPress plugin so that I can display it’s voting button on all my posts.

Another important point is that Brian is constantly scrutinizing the site to make sure that all submitted content is of of good quality and that no-one spams the site. Don’t be surprised if he actually votes on your post either or if he actually visits your blog and leaves a comment as he is well known for leaving his personal touch.

Not a member yet? It’s really easy to join, just vote on this post.

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A Good Argument For Tough Love vs Spanking

Saturday, October 25th, 2008 at 6:45 pm  
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All through the ages people from all over the world have been arguing over ways of disciplining your children. A lot of countries have actually banned spanking the child saying that this leads to psychological damage. Yet a lot of people continue to do so quoting such authorities as the Bible that says things like ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’.

I used to get whacked when I was a kid and I even spanked my kids when I though it absolutely necessary, albeit with the palm of my hand. Perhaps if there was another method? Well it seems that there is as presented by one frustrated parent.

Most people think it improper to spank children, so I have tried other methods to control my kids when they have one of ‘those moments.’

One that I found effective is for me to just take the child for a car ride and talk.

Some say it’s the vibration from the car, others say it’s the time away from any distractions such as TV, Video Games, Computer, iPod, etc.

Either way, my kids usually calm down and stop misbehaving after our car ride together. Eye to eye contact helps a lot too.

I’ve included a photo below of one of my sessions with my son, in case you would like to use the technique.

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