Though our Share and Share a Like contest is still in full swing, I want to let you know that we’ve got a special, two-week contest coming up this August. Sponsored by Drano, the Clogs to Coins contest is going to be focused entirely in our Plumbing category. We encourage you to document your own…
Read MoreTips on Choosing and Wearing Perfume
The world of perfume is astoundingly complex. Thankfully, perfume aficionada and HubPages staffmember Michelle Padro knows a thing or two about how to choose, test, and wear perfumes, and shared her sage advice in a Hub titled The Dos and Don’ts of Perfume. Listen in to this week’s podcast (Choosing and Wearing Perfume) as Michelle shares…
Read MoreHubbie Award Voting & The Importance of Community
In this week’s Online Writing Insider podcast, Robin and I discuss the Importance of Community in writing online (and offline, too!). In line with this podcast theme, I’m happy to announce that voting for the first annual Hubbie Awards is now open! To submit your nominations (votes) for each Hubbie Award, enter the username of…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: Becoming an Interesting Writer
Very often, while I am reading articles on similar topics, I find myself drawn strongly to one, while skimming through or getting bored with others. While these articles often deal with identical topics that I am inherently interested in, there are writers whose voice, treatment of a topic, way of involving the reader are so…
Read MoreEnemy Hearts
Rarely do I read things online that prompt me to make audible reactions, when something I’m reading does cause me to make noise, said noise is typically laughter. Enemy Hearts by Taressa Klays is one of the very unusual Hubs out our site that has made me actually yell out in alarm- in a good…
Read MoreIntroducing the First Ever Hubbie Awards
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again- HubPages would not be anywhere near the amazing site it is without its vibrant community. To celebrate awesome Hubbers as well as our fifth birthday, we are going to host the first ever Hubbie Awards on Friday, August 5th. This coming Wednesday, we will open voting…
Read MoreShinto 101
What is Shinto? And how does one properly visit a Shinto shrine? Akbok, one of HubPages’ newest and most talented Hubbers, explains both in two different Hubs (A Shintoism Overview and How to Visit a Shinto Shrine). Join Robin Edmondson and me as we review these helpful guides in this week’s episode of Weekly Advice…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: An Interview with Christin Evans of the Booksmith
As a part of our On Writing Well series, we reached out to the incredible Christin Evans, the owner of the best bookstore in San Francisco, the Booksmith. Christin’s job connects her to a large number of great writers, and her advice on writing is very welcome. Thanks Christin for your wise words! 1. What…
Read MoreOvercoming Writer’s Apprehension
Are you new to HubPages, or online writing in general? Are you having trouble publishing your first couple of articles? In this episode of the Online Writing Insider (Writer’s Apprehension), Michelle Padro and Yours Truly discuss the mysterious effects of Writer’s Apprehension- that troublesome nervousness about sharing one’s writing in the public sphere. In addition…
Read MoreSocial Sharing and Google: Recent Developments & Speculations
You might have read an announcement last week that Google is now allowing you to track Facebook Likes, Facebook Sends, Tweets, and, naturally, its own +1s, via Analytics and Webmaster Tools. Now that it has a social graph product (+1) that it is anxious to promote, and a social network it would like to build…
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