My life is going online and what I have to offer people is offered online. People look for me and connect with me online.

There is nothing unique in this everyone is doing it. That’s where the problem comes in.

People don’t know how to communicate!

Have you been to a dinner party, or other gathering, where someone has bored you stiff because they spend all the time talking about themselves. Well it’s the same online.

I learned in the physical world that communication is about the other person. It grows when I am interested in knowing about the other person and I show that I want to know what they think. If I talk about what interests them I build an amazing connection. You need to do the same with your websites.

In ‘Rising from the Ashes’ I am developing a conversation with you about how to do this, how to communicate with your reader, client or customer.

Specific Issues

The following posts look at specific issues that challenge current perspectives:

• Comments – Great For Promotion Or Death To A Blog?
  Challenges to common ideas about Blog Comments.
• Dive In, Connect and Grow Your Blog with Facebook
  Looks at how to use Facebook to promote your work.
• Your Web Site – Is It For Your Readers/Customers Or For You?
  Does your site bore people or are you exciting them by provide solutions?
  

A General View

From a more general perspective the following posts challenge you to look at your approach to communicating.

• Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants – How To Communicate
  Cautions you on how to use other people’s work.
• He is a Rogue … that’s Why He Blogs so Well
  Helps you to understand what makes a blogger successful.
• Are You Writing and Blogging Or Twiddling Your Thumbs
  Talks about the craft of writing.

Other Resources

• Social Triggers by Derek Halpern
  Do You Know What Makes People “Tick” Online? Now’s the time to learn how to use psychology to communicate.
• Think Traffic by Corbett Barr
  Where you will hear the sometimes painful but absolutely essential information you need to know to build a real, thriving audience of true fans.
• Untether to Evolve by Ev Bogue
  The way we publish is evolving rapidly — we’re still reading, but in very different places. The destiny of the digital word is uncertain, but Ev is determined to find out what that future is.