12:45 PST: Sorry I’m late but here’s the winner!!
Ever since my very exciting and humbling grand prize win last Friday at Chris Garrett’s blog, I’ve had the chance to meet some wonderful bloggers full of the same intensity and passion that I have for “making it.” It’s great to know I’m not alone in this!
This was a close competition with several great entries to choose from, but I ultimately settled on someone who expressed the most straight-forward, passionate and genuine plea.
The winner of my extra ticket to the Social Media Success Summit 2009 is: [Read more...] Social Media Success Summit 2009 Contest Winner
May 26, 2009 By 3 Comments
12:45 PST: Sorry I’m late but here’s the winner!!
Ever since my very exciting and humbling grand prize win last Friday at Chris Garrett’s blog, I’ve had the chance to meet some wonderful bloggers full of the same intensity and passion that I have for “making it.” It’s great to know I’m not alone in this!
This was a close competition with several great entries to choose from, but I ultimately settled on someone who expressed the most straight-forward, passionate and genuine plea.
The winner of my extra ticket to the Social Media Success Summit 2009 is: [Read more...] Win a Free Ticket to Social Media Success Summit 2009
May 22, 2009 By 17 Comments
CONTEST NOW CLOSED.
Now that I have your attention, allow me to tell you a little bit about myself and why I blog. Then I promise I’ll get to the contest. I’m Charles Bohannan and I live and raise my family in Hawaii. You may think it’s round-the-clock surfing and mai tais here, but it’s not (too bad, I know). Paradise comes with a price. In other words, it’s very hard to thrive in Hawaii–pretty much anywhere these days–on an average income in an average job as an average employee. I tried to be average for years and never really got that far. My challenge and quest to be someone remarkable led me to start this blog in October 2008. My intention here at Wordful is to [Read more...]Wordful Wednesday: The Revolution, Generosity, Microstyle and More
May 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Aloha and welcome to Wordful Wednesday:
- Viva la Digital Media Revolución, aka “newspapers-are-failing-how-will-the-industry-survive?” is popping up quite a bit these days (if you haven’t noticed). Check out these sites on the subject:
- Mediashift (see logo above): Nice holistic coverage by PBS that covers “legacy media,” social media, buinsess education, culture and more.
- Eat Sleep Publish: A small, intelligent and insightful site on the future of publishing. Blogger Jason Preston presents a balanced perspective of big legacy media mixed with blogging.
- Editor Chat: A TweetChat hosted by Tim Byers and Lydia Dishman that brings together writers and editors to discuss in real-time the digital revolution. Prominent editors often moderate the chat, which is every Wednesdays from 5:30-7pm PST. Read my post on Editorchat here.
Social Media Success Summit 2009: Why We Should Go
May 18, 2009 By 20 Comments
This post is an “entry” in a contest by Chris Garrett to win tickets to the Social Media Success Summit 2009. If I win the Grand Prize (2 tickets+more), I’ll be giving away the other ticket here.
Why do I want we need to attend the Social Media Success Summit 2009 (SMSS09)?
Here’s why:
Our businesses can’t grow without social media.
A blog is a business that requires two components to succeed: content and marketing. If we focus on one and not the other, we’ll amount to nothing more than: [Read more...]Raisin Hell, Nice People, Free Stuff and More: Wordful Wednesday
May 13, 2009 By 7 Comments
Welcome to the real Wordful Wednesday, not the 29,000 other Wordful Wednesdays you’ll find on Google.
With that said, let’s start with this:
SEOBook says in a recent post
…given the existence of Twitter, would you start a blog that pointed out interesting things on the internet? The time for a blog pointing out interesting things on the internet has clearly passed.”A fair observation, but not entirely true. Twitter and other social media platforms may be the modern day nexus for interesting things, but there’s no efficient way to gather and publish this information to a focused audience. Blogs have the advantage here. Hint: harvest good links from Twitter to republish on your blog. Just don’t turn into this. [Read more...]