m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Someone asked me the other day the difference between link baiting, link building, and link or comment spam.
Trying to keep it simple, here is what I said:
Link baiting: is a philosophy that places importance on creating useful, remarkable content that people will, just as a matter of course, want to share with their friends because [...]

I attended the Web 2.0 Conference last week in San Francisco. Over the next few posts, I’ll try and upload some of my notes for you from the Web 2.0 marketing sessions I attended.
One of the Tuesday workshops I attended was SEO From Soup to Nuts, by Stephan Spencer. Stephan is president of Netconcepts, writes [...]

Gotta mention the food…
Fluffy’s Cafe and Bakery
One 7th Avenue between 54th and 55th
Good coffee and breakfast sandwich croissants. Plus, their bakery items looked fabulous.

Times Square Hot Bagels
on 44th near Broadway, between Ollie’s and Carmine’s
Great coffee and bagels. If carbs were not an issue, it would be fun to go back and try a [...]

perhaps, of interest:
Free WIFI in Manhattan
Manhattan Neighborhoods – maps
Dining Fever – coupons, maps, menus, and searchable by neighborhood or type of food. Mantra looks good. Their signature dish is lobster guacamole. Yum. The only catch with this site is that you print the coupon and call ahead for reservations, which is not [...]

Tonight was the night of my talk at Missouri Western State University. My talk was entitled: “No Mean Feat: Taking a Nuanced Response Approach to Digital Tools.” (flyer). There were about 50 people in the audience, which was a nice size. I think I was able to make eye contact with [...]

I gave a talk to about 20 teachers in the Columbia area today. I always am so excited to do these sorts of things. I really like helping others get started blogging and it’s exciting to see their eyes light up when they start getting ideas of how they might use blogging with [...]

For your reading pleasure, I offer this month’s teaching carnival.
You’ll find many good posts on reading:
In Reading Without Steroids, Working Blue asks what kind of reader are you? Meanwhile, at Techsophist, Lanette Cadle talks of Rereading, revisiting, especially about making connections while reading, now and in seminars past. Then, Rebecca Moore Howard offers [...]

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St Joseph Missouri, originally uploaded by Marcia H.

Map of St Joseph, MO

I am giving a talk tomorrow at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph Missouri.
I am posting this entry from Flickr. I’ll be updating this [...]

I am so excited. I just received an invitation from the Prairie Lands Writing Project here in Missouri to be their guest speaker at a Saturday workshop the end of September. I’ll put together a 4 hour workshop to help them kick off their digital media initiative this year. It pays a [...]

As I stated in my last post, I’m giving a talk today at the Missouri Writing Project Summer Institute.
My plan is as follows:
First 20

briefly review what blogging is and mention the other forms of blogging being done
highlight a few place blogs since they are writing about place this summer
discuss places they can go [...]