Reading Lists

Not quite sure why I posted this to Fun on the Web first except I needed to post there.

I am determined to move my blogs from hobbies to income generating. I have joined a writers group and going to meet them next week even though it is still pretty darn cold out there.  I have not adjusted from being in warm weather.

This is a small part of the reading list for one of my courses and today I added a FREE Kindle Book from Amazon. It looks very helpful!




Who knew there was so much to writing good content?

Google
http://www.google.ca/analytics/
http://www.google.com/adwords/
http://www.googleguide.com/


Keywords
http://www.wordtracker.com/
http://www.wikihow.com/Find-The-Most-Searched-Keywords

Content Marketing
http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/blog/

Branding
http://aboutpublicrelations.net/ucmckerns3.htm


Mindmaps
http://drichard.org/mindmaps/
http://lifehacker.com/five-best-mind-mapping-tools-476534555


Outlines
http://blog.journalistics.com/2010/use-outlines-to-write-better-faster/


Headlines
http://web.ku.edu/~edit/headproblem.html
http://web.ku.edu/~edit/headgood.html
http://web.ku.edu/~edit/heads.html

Writing leads
http://cubreporters.org/leads.html
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/735/05/

Online writing Lab
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

Transition
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/574/01/

Paper vs screen reading
http://news.yahoo.com/reading-brain-digital-age-science-paper-versus-screens-113000205.html

Better traffic and SEO
http://www.copyblogger.com/cornerstone-pages/

Plain language
http://www.plainlanguage.gov/
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-power-of-simple-words#review

Bad writing
http://centerforplainlanguage.org/wondermark/


Readability Tool
http://read-able.com/
https://readability-score.com/
http://www.officetooltips.com/word/tips/viewing_document_and_readability_statistics.html

Reading Level for WORD 2008
http://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=7505

Passive voice
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/passive-voice/

Here are some more quizzes:
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/active-passive.html
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_passive1.htm

Looking ahead

Since I last wrote my dream job evaporated and I have had another less than stellar assignment. I have spent most of the winter at home except the last 10 days when I went to help my sister.  It was a nice break from the winter.

I started school online for "Web Design" (which is a prerequisite for another class I want to take) and "Creating Effective Web Content". The Web Content class is harder than I would have thought but has spurred some writing in all my blogs.

As of today, I am actively looking for a job, working on homework, and hiding from the bitter cold in equal parts. We are having a high of 15 degrees today. That is better than the rest of the week forecast so I am heading for the library and store soon.