Three Years and Counting at DannyBrown.me

Silly numbers

Three years ago today, I posted the first article on this blog. It was a pretty simple piece – short, and more of an overview of what to expect in the days ahead. Three years later, and it’s interesting to look back and see how I’ve changed in that time, both in style and in… [Continue Reading]

Bloggers Do It With Feeling

Feelings

This is a guest post by Nancy Davis. How many times have you stumbled across a blog and felt that something is missing? They have great content. They even have a really cool photo to draw your eye in. The text is large enough to read easily. The blogger kindly responds to your comment, yet… [Continue Reading]

How to Kill Your Blog in 10 Easy Steps

Kill your blog

So you’re bored with blogging. You have other things to do – like eat, sleep, go out, work. You know – boring “real life” stuff. Besides, thinking about it, blogging is for computer nerds and failed writers. Not to worry – help is at hand. Here are 10 ways to kill your blog. Let’s begin.… [Continue Reading]

10 Free Blog Topics to Help You Get Your Blog On

Free blog topics

This post is part of our free blog topics series over at For Bloggers By Bloggers. For many bloggers, coming up with blog topics can be hard. Keeping your blog fresh and interesting for readers old and new can see you hitting the blog topics wall, and often that leads to you just not blogging… [Continue Reading]

If This Was My Last Blog Post

Last blog post

Over at For Bloggers By Bloggers, I offered up a new list of free blog topics to help you with ideas for your blog. There are ten topics to choose from, and it’s something we offer up as a thank-you to the For Bloggers By Bloggers community. One of the topics suggested is If This… [Continue Reading]

The Weird Thing I Want You To Do On My Blog

Greed

This is a guest post by Michael Schechter. I’m noticing a pattern lately:  the moment that a blogger starts to monetize his or her site can usually be tracked back to moment the content begins to suck. The minute that optimization becomes the priority, creation tends to quickly take a backseat. It’s not a perfect… [Continue Reading]

The Mind-Numbing Banality of Sameness

Mind numbing

When you start blogging, you usually do it for one of two reasons – you have something to say and want to share it, or you read other blogs and enjoy how they can be used for growing a brand; a business; a mindset; and more. Often these two criss-cross with each other. Other times… [Continue Reading]

Why a Blog Disclaimer Is Just as Important as a Disclosure Message

Why your blog needs a disclaimer

Last week, I spoke with Joe Hackman about blogger ethics and transparency (you can listen to the podcast here), and one of the things we chatted about was the topic of disclosure. My belief – and something we instill into any clients that have a blogger or social media outreach program in place – is… [Continue Reading]

Out With the Old…

Danny Brown calendar for 2011

… And in with the new, as the saying goes. Seems kinda apt for some of the changes coming this way in 2011, at least as far as this blog is concerned. In the next few days, I’ll be putting the new design live on here. Built from the core WordPress platform, it’s the first… [Continue Reading]

Everyone Is Someone’s Child

child and parent

Sometimes, through anger, we see our own frailties. Or maybe not frailties – but definitely nuances that could be shared better. The last few days has taught me that, as I’ve been pretty angry on this blog. Although, to be honest, I don’t see it as much anger as it is passion. I’m passionate about… [Continue Reading]