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11 Ways To Integrate Your Blog With a Worthy Non-Profit

If you are a blogger who endorses a worthy charity, there are many ways you can integrate your support for your favorite non-profit into your blogging. Here are 11 ideas you may want to start using:
1. Theme. You could use a ‘theme’ for your blog that reflects the cause or mission of the [...]

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Twitter meets Wordpress

“A Day for Hearts” is on February 14th – and I’m doing many things to help spread the word. This is one.
It’s an exciting little Wordpress theme – and it has a ‘Twitter-like’ interface by which YOU can post to my Congenital Heart Defects Awareness blog… saying how you are helping with the event.
Twitter? [...]

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10 Day Blog Profits Challenge – Are YOU In?

In 2003, I wrote on of the first ebook about blogging for profits. Blog Profit Ideas Exposed went on to sell over 750 copies.
Since 2005, I have stopped teaching my power-blogging techniques. Yet, I’m still known as a top expert on blog marketing.
I distilled my best blogging practices into a short primer for [...]

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Downside of Influence

Many bloggers dream of becoming influential. Because, they think, they’re going to change the world.
And they can – but not in every possible way.
Darren Rowse, “arguably Australia’s most famous blogger”, was recently interviewed on “Aussie Bloggers” and said:
“That’s why I don’t do memes; that’s why I rarely refer people to other sites which may [...]

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A Day for Hearts : 4 Challenges and a FIRESALE!

I’m a heart surgeon. Heart operations take a long time. Sometimes 8 hours, or maybe longer.
So working long, hard stints isn’t strange or unusual for me.
Yesterday, I spent a marathon 8 hour session, working fast and furious with focus and concentration. Not in the operating room… but in my office.
The work was [...]

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A Favorite Blogger Gets More Influence

Glenda Watson Hyatt is better known as the ‘left thumb blogger’.
She is one of the 7 bloggers who most influenced me in 2007. When you visit her blog, you’ll see why. It’s for the very same reason my little patients inspire me – their indefatigable spirit and persistence against steep odds.
Well, I just [...]

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My "Use Your Brain" Appeal

I posted a link to my detailed article, “A Beginner’s Guide to StumbleUpon Traffic“, on a private forum inside Jack Humphrey’s new Social Power Linking membership site.

A reader asked me if, even though the effort was likely to get more traffic, it would be useful to generate ‘passive income’.
I replied, sharing some data on how [...]

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Influence of a Vision

Image credit sxc.hu
Last night I was very tired. Not just physically tired, but mentally exhausted, emotionally weary.
But I couldn’t sleep. For an hour, I tossed and turned, tortured by a haunting question:

Is It Worth Sticking With This?
For the first time in over 10 years the question hit me with force and persistence. [...]

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How Can a Heart Surgeon Blog for Influence?

Today, I’d like to tell you a story.
It takes you behind the scenes of a heart operation, reveals a secret and teaches a powerful lesson in the end.
It’s a story about a little boy. He’s 7 years old. He had a heart birth defect.

Ranjith lives in a little village. His father is [...]

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Influence from beyond the veil

Andrew Olmsted is a blogger. He was also a soldier. A U.S. soldier in Iraq.
Major Andrew Olmsted, who posted a blog since May 2007, was killed in Iraq on Thursday, Jan. 3.
His final post was made posthumously, by a friend (to whom Andrew had entrusted this task).
It influences from beyond the veil. Read [...]

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