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Blog Exercises: July Random Editing Day

July 11, 2013 – 4:54 am

Are you up for the challenge today? Today it is 7 posts to edit on our monthly Random Editing Day. As explained in previous month during the series of Blog Exercises, this month you will need to edit seven random posts, one for every month of this series so far. This monthly blog exercise can […]

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Blog Exercises: June Monthly Random Edit Day

June 10, 2013 – 4:52 am

Today it is 6 posts to edit on our monthly Random Editing Day. It’s June. It’s summer in most of the world, some switching from winter to summer while others are switching from summer to winter. It’s a time of change. This month’s random editing day let’s focus on the word “change.” Run a search […]

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Blog Exercises: May Random Editing Day

May 21, 2013 – 10:57 am

May. It’s starting to warm up outside in the north, and growing a bit chilly down under, but it’s that time again. It’s the May Random Editing Day. In this Blog Exercise you will need to edit five random posts from among your thousands – okay, maybe dozens of published articles. What should you look […]

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Blog Exercises: What Words Do You Abuse Redundantly?

April 2, 2013 – 4:17 am

So, it’s word check time. Well, time to check all the words we abuse. Specifically, all the words we abuse redundantly and unnecessarily. And I’d like us to focus on the little words we add to our content, words like like, and, so, because, cause, cuz, specifically, well, and so on. In the last two […]

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Blog Exercises: Clean Up Your Most Popular Posts

February 21, 2013 – 4:59 am

“It’s dated 2008. It must be useless.” This was the response to an article I tweeted out recently. Yes, the article was dated 2008. Did that mean it wasn’t a valid, timely, and invaluable resource? It was, but that’s not the point. Some people equate old with useless. With the aging population gaining the majority […]

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Blog Exercises: Random Edit Day February

February 14, 2013 – 4:51 am

It’s time for another Random Editing Day in the ongoing series of Blog Exercises to flex your blogging muscles. As outlined in the original exercise, your task today is to find two random previously published posts and edit them. Use the list in the original exercise as a review on what to look for when […]

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