Getting The Most From This Blog

Posted by Tom Colvin

December 4, 2007

For new-comers especially, there’s more here than meets the eye right off. And even long-time readers tend to forget about some of these resources.

CHECK THE TABLE OF CONTENTS: In the right sidebar, the Table of Contents lays out in logical fashion just what topics are covered by this blog. Each line also contains the number of posts for that topic. Just click to view those selected posts. This is the easiest way to catch up with past posts that might be of interest.

LOOK INTO THE ARCHIVES TAB: One of the tabs along the top, this page lists the titles of the past 100 posts — another quick way to review and find past posts that may be useful to you.

CLICK ON THE ONLINE WRITER’S OFFICE: This may be the most powerful and useful element of my blog’s work. A click will take you to my PageCast at PageFlakes. One of the tabs there gathers an annotated list of the blog’s most recent 10 posts, Even more important, you’ll find my Best of the Web citations from my Google Reader Shared Items page, where I gather links to the best posts I’ve found among the 100+ blogs and websites I monitor. On another tab, you will discover an online office, with a gateway to Zoho Writer, a dictionary, calculator and other valuable tools. Yet another tab gathers lists of recent posts at many of the very best productivity blogs and websites, with information that goes beyond writing into general productivity advice, software reviews and such. There’s even a gateway to the best podcasts by and for writers — just turn up your speaker and click your choice. It’s worth “going to The Office” several times a week.

RECOMMENDED WEBSITES: Rather than simply provide a cluttered list of websites, I place my recommendations in a series of pages that categorize the sites and provide brief descriptions. I add to this list continually. You can view it as your annotated bookmarks for writing-related sites.

SOFTWARE: While there are many posts relating to software, this tab pulls together the most important software reviews. This list is updated periodically.

BOOKS: This tab presents reviews of carefully selected books. Rather than inundate you will countless books, I try to steer you to the very best on selected topics.

SO… Please enjoy this blog and all that it has to offer. I encourage feedback and comments so that the blog will tap into a broadest possible range of expertise and insight. NOTE that it’s necessary to click on the post’s title or “Comments” link at the bottom of an individual post to read what others are saying. Moreover, if the commenter’s name is underlined, you can click on the name to go directly to the commenters blog/website, a great way to find other useful sites.

Tom

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