Blogging – Cherished Solutions – Design, Illustration, Web Services, Art Licensing, Coaching, Art, Cards & Gifts https://www.cherishedsolutions.com Visual Solutions for the Young at Heart Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:08:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://i0.wp.com/www.cherishedsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/cherishedsolutions-logo.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Blogging – Cherished Solutions – Design, Illustration, Web Services, Art Licensing, Coaching, Art, Cards & Gifts https://www.cherishedsolutions.com 32 32 65654252 Just One More Book https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/blogging/just-one-more-book/ Fri, 16 Aug 2013 22:07:23 +0000 https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/?p=1448 Continue reading Just One More Book]]> With SO much happening everyday in the children’s publishing area, it can be very difficult to stay on top of things. Andra from Just One More Book just sent me this cool children’s book resource. I hope you find this as interesting and educational as I did. . .

“A podcast about the children’s books we love and why we love them — recorded in our favourite coffee shop”

“Just One More Book!” is a thrice-weekly podcast which promotes and celebrates literacy and great children’s books. Each weekday morning, we take a few minutes out of our morning coffee ritual to discuss one of our many favourite children’s books. We also feature weekly interviews with authors, illustrators and experts and enthusiasts in the areas of children’s literature and literacy as well as listener-submitted book reviews.

Through this podcast and website, we are building a lively, interactive community linking children’s book authors, illustrators, readers (parents, children, librarians, teachers and literacy activists) and publishers.

Guests have included celebrity authors such as Sheree Fitch, Rachna Gilmore, Jack Prelutsky, Daniel Pinkwater, Eve Bunting, Eva Ibbotson, Henry Winkler and Mary Ann Hoberman. They have also aimed the spotlight at interesting and lesser known and illustrators.

Episodes range in length from 5 to 25 minutes and can be played directly from our web page or downloaded to a portable mp3 player, such as an iPod, for listening on the go.

This podcast is powered by passion. They have no advertisers or sponsors. Their goals are to link children with great books and to help create happy memories for children and the adults that read to them…and to have fun!

The Just One More Book! Podcast has been recommended by the American Library Association (ALA) – Great web sites for kids and has been featured in Canadian Living Magazine and such prestigious literary publications as School Library Journal, Books for Keeps andPublishers Weekly. We are also regular contributors to ChildsLife, The Edge of the Forest and Parent Source online newsletters.

]]> 1448 The Top 77 Mistakes New Bloggers Make https://www.cherishedsolutions.com/blogging/the-top-77-mistakes-new-bloggers-make/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:09:02 +0000 http://solutionstocherish.com/blog/?p=8 Continue reading The Top 77 Mistakes New Bloggers Make]]> This list compiled by TimeForBlogging has wonderful advice for you (and me) if you are going to start keeping a blog.

The Top 77 Mistakes New Bloggers Make

  1. Not hosting their own blog
  2. Registering a blog name (URL) that has been copyrighted
  3. Registering a long and difficult to remember domain nameStyle, Design, and Basic Blog Ingredients
  4. Keeping the basic template that came installed on the blog
  5. Using a black background or one that flashes, blinks, or moves in any other way
  6. Using background music
  7. Not updating the blogroll that comes with the blog
  8. Not using permalinks for their blog posts
  9. Not protecting their blogs from SPAM comments with easily installed plugins
  10. Under-utilizing easily installed plugins
  11. Not including a clear way to contact them
  12. Not including a basic About the Author page
  13. Not creating a sitemap for Google and other search enginesBlog Comments
  14. Keeping the first post & comment that came with the blog
  15. Forcing guests to register in order to leave comments
  16. Commenting on other blogs with nothing to say other than “nice post” or some other worthless nonsense
  17. Commenting on other blogs and posting spamming their blog’s URL in the post
  18. Not commenting on other blogs enough
  19. Not thinking through what they comment about on other sites
  20. Not responding to comments on their blogs
  21. Asking other bloggers to link to their blog in comments
  22. Gathering email addresses from people who comment and adding them to email marketing lists without permission (privacy violation)
  23. Posting affiliate links when making comments on other blogs

There’s more! READ ON . . .

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