Sharon Hurley Hall

It’s time for my quarterly (or thereabouts) update on what I’ve been doing online. As usual a lot of my work has been blogging for clients.  Here are the posts.

It’s time for my quarterly (or thereabouts) update on what I’ve been doing online. As usual a lot of my work has been blogging for clients.  Here are the posts.

Location Independent Parents

• Inspiration & Social Proof: An Interview With Suzanne James
• Social Media For Location Independent Parents – Which Networks Should I Use?
• Social Media For Location Independent Parents – Automation
• CBeebies – Educational Fun For Location Independent Children
• Preparing Your Kids To Become Location Independent

PiggyBankPie

• TwitHive Fails To Excite
• Three Key Places To Promote Your Blog
• My Essentials For Blogging On The Move
• TwitTangle Tries To Declutter Twitter
• Does Your Blog Pass The ‘So What’ Test?
• LifeIO, A Dashboard For Your Online Life

Taking Off Travel Blog

February 2010
• 25: Traveling The Blogosphere – February 2010
• 23: Safe Travel Tips
• 18: The Sea – Travel Photos
• 16: What Do You Really Need To Know In A Foreign Language?
• 11: Luggage Trends – Interview With John Ebb Of Suitcase.com
• 09: Hunting For Treasure
• 04: TOTB Welcomes Guest Posts
• 02: Five Cool Ways To Travel

January 2010

• 28: Money Saving Vacation Tips
• 26: My Travel Tuesday Twitter List
• 21: January 2010 Travel News
• 19: Try Something New; I Dare You
• 14: My 2010 Travel Plans
• 12: When To Book Travel Online
• 07: A Month In Venezuela
• 06: Taking Off Travel Blog Makes Site Of The Day
• 05: Five Ways To Get More From Travel In 2010

December 2009

• 31: Taking Off Travel Blog – Best Of 2009
• 29: Exploring Las Vegas (LAS) Airport
• 24: Traveling The Blogosphere December 2009
• 22: Duffel Makes Trip Planning Easy
• 17: Save On Off Airport Parking With Coupons
• 15: Going Home For Christmas? Here’s How To Save
• 10: Why I Always Buy Travel Insurance
• 08: Will There Be Airport Parking Problems In Space?
• 03: A Near Miss
• 01: Five Things To Do When Your Plane Is Delayed

BloggingTips

• Did The Frugal Theme Solve My Throttling Problem?
• Is Your Web Host Throttling Your Blog?
• Should You Really Unlink Your Feeds?
• How To Get Your Blogging Mojo Back
• Riding The Google Buzz Bandwagon
• Theme Frameworks – They’re Not That Simple
• You Can’t Kill Blog Spam With Aksimet Alone
• Cut Twitter Clutter With Feedera
• Analyze Your Blogging Business
• Broadcast Your Blog With Chum.ly
• Dragon Naturally Speaking — A Great Tool For Bloggers
• Get Paid To Blog By Guest Blogging
• Why I Went Back To Basics With WordPress Comments
• What Makes The Perfect Theme?
• In Search Of A Storytlr Replacement

Suite 101

• How to Get Clips for an Online Writing Portfolio: Markets for Freelance Writers
• Dragon Naturally Speaking Standard 10 Review
• Top Tools for Location Independent Professionals
• Put a Writing Portfolio Online With Google Docs
• Avoiding Toddler Tantrums When Eating Out
• How to Add Value to Your Writing Business
• Five Ways to Improve Your Writing Career
• Blog Carnivals – A Great Promotion Tool

I started a new blogging gig at BloggingTips in September. Here are the posts I’ve published so far:

• Confessions Of A Theme-A-Holic, 03 Dec 2009
• Four More Twitter Account Cleaners, 26 Nov 2009
• 4 Twitter Account Cleaners, 19 Nov 2009
• Is Tweetvisor A Brizzly Beater?, 12 Nov 2009
• Blogging For Revenue Share – Pros And Cons, 05 Nov 2009
• The Case Of The Disappearing Blog, 29 Oct 2009
• Five More Great Sites For Writers, 22 Oct 2009
• Four Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started Blogging, 15 Oct 2009
• Three Challenges When Managing A Twitter Alter Ego, 08 Oct 2009
• Why IntenseDebate Beats Echo, 01 Oct 2009
• 3 Easy Ways To Deal With RSS Overload, 24 Sep 2009
• Rebadge Your Blog Content With Zinepal, 17 Sep 2009
• Two Weeks With Echo, 10 Sep 2009

One of the projects I’ve been working on behind the scenes is a new site called Location Independent Parents. Lea Woodward, Amy Palko and I share our experience of being location independent parents. We’re all very different, so the site has something for everyone.  Here are my first three posts (but be sure to check out the rest):

Simple Social Media Strategies For Location Independent Professionals is my first guest post on the Location Independent blog. A few weeks ago, Cath Duncan suggested that writing about how location independent professionals can manage social media without getting overwhelmed might be a good idea. This guest post is the result. (Thanks, Cath.) Here’s an excerpt:

I belong to dozens of networks but of late my interaction has been limited to just three. Here’s what I’ve chosen, why I’ve chosen them and what I get out of each

Hope you enjoy it.

It’s always nice when someone features your blog, interviews you or otherwise helps boost your online presence. Here are some places where I, SharonHurleyHall.com and Get Paid To Write Online have been featured over the past couple of months.

• Inspired By Water – guest post on Andy Hayes’ blog
• How To Get A Big Job From A Small Country – guest post on Freelance Writing Gigs
• Inspirational Destinations: Barbados – interview on Location Independent
• 155 Ways To Work From Home Without Distraction - my tip is no. 106

Get Paid To Write Online has appeared on

• Websites for writers
• 100 Women Bloggers To Watch Out For In 2009
• Cited incorrectly as a place to find job listings, but thanks for the mention
• Listed in the top ten on Top Of Blogs
• Doing quite well on the Invesp list of writing blogs

One of the highlights of my recent posts on PiggyBankPie was a series on getting started in blogging. I’ve also reviewed several interesting sites.

• Tweeting For Two – What I Have Learned
• Getting To Grips With Your Online Contacts
• Tools To Manage Your Online Reading List
• Searching Your Desktop: What Are The Options?
• How Do Your Posts Rank?
• Seven Multiple Social Bookmarking Tools
• Getting Started in Blogging: Blogging As A Business
• Getting Started in Blogging: Monetization
• Getting Started In Blogging: Advertising And Promotion
• Getting Started In Blogging: Linkbuilding
• Getting Started In Blogging: How To Improve Your Blog
• Getting Started In Blogging: Stats
• Filtering Out The Twitter Noise
• Getting Started In Blogging: Planning And Management
• Getting Started In Blogging: Getting Ideas
• Manage Twitter Better With Hootsuite
• Getting Started In Blogging: Customization
• Getting Started In Blogging: Free Themes
• Track Your Blog Conversations With BackType
• WordPress Spam Protection: Aksimet Vs Defensio
• Getting Started In Blogging: Platform Choices
• Getting Started In Blogging: Hosting
• Syncplicity – Simple Online Backup For Your Blog

Here’s a list of everything I’ve published on PiggyBankPie to date. These are mainly about blogging, but also include website and tool reviews.

2009

• Five Plugins To Give Your Blog Content A Boost
• Who Are Your Twitterfriends?
• Three Twitter Tools I Can’t Live Without
• Lessons From Choosing A Premium WordPress Theme
• Put Your Life Online With Storytlr
• RSS Mixers: The Options At A Glance
• Four Ways To Beat Blogger’s Block
• Short Guide To Lifestreaming
• The No-Frills Guide To Web Analytics
• Three Abandoned WordPress Plugins
• Twitter Backgrounds Made Easy
• Promote Your Blog With Blogrize
• Time Tracking For Professional Bloggers … And Others
• Five Free Keyword Research Tools For Bloggers

2008

• Feedly: A New Face For Google Reader
• Two Tools For Tracking Research
• How To Run A Group Writing Project
• How To Save Your Blog From Extinction
• Making Your Content Work Harder: Eco-Friendly Blog Promotion
• Getting Into Iminta?
• Profilactic: Lifestreaming Made Simple
• Twitter in the AIR
• Exploring The Plurkiverse: Microblogging Gets Conversational
• Tuning In To Twitter
• Coming Out As A Blogger
• The Joy Of Blogging

2007

• Want To Drop One On Me?
• Are You Being Kind To Your Readers?
• Ten Paid To Blog Programs At A Glance
• Five Ways To Kill Your Blog
• How To Make Your Blog Work For You
• How To Find Blogging Success

One of my blogging gigs for last year was a site called TechGerm. Here’s a round up of my latest posts on the site. And if you’re looking for more techie goodness, you can find me blogging on PiggyBankPie.

January 2009

• 16: CommentLuv – WP Plugin Weekly
• 14: The Time Tracking Pick List
• 12: Is IE On The Way Out?
• 09: Simple Spam Filter – WP Plugin Weekly
• 07: Forum Matrix – Find That Forum
• 05: Tech News 1-5-09
• 02: Extended Categories Manager – WP Plugin Weekly

December 2008

• 31: Six Months Of TechGerm
• 29: What To Do When You’re Tired Of Blogging
• 26: WhyDoWork Adsense – WP Plugin Weekly
• 25: Merry Christmas From TechGerm
• 24: Analytics – What’s The Point? Part 2
• 22: Analytics – What’s The Point?
• 19: SRG Clean Archives – WP Plugin Weekly
• 17: The TechGerm Review List
• 15: First Look At Blogrize
• 12: Popularity Contest – WP Plugin Weekly
• 10: TwitBacks – Simple Twitter Backgrounds
• 08: Tech News 12-8-08
• 05: Better Comments Manager – WP Plugin Weekly
• 03: Eight Adobe AIR Apps
• 01: TwiTip – The Complete Twitter Resource

November 2008

• 28: In Series – WP Plugin Weekly
• 26: The Great Google Switcheroo
• 24: TweetLater- The Twitter Management Tool
• 21: WordPress.com Stats – WP Plugin Weekly
• 19: Slife Offers Analytics For Your Desktop
• 17: SingleWrench Review
• 14: All In One Seo Pack – WP Plugin Weekly
• 12: Preparing For Interruptions (0)
• 10: Tech News 11-9-08
• 07: Theme Test Drive – WP Plugin Weekly
• 05: Lifestreaming With Storytlr
• 03: A New Way To Moderate

I love writing about parenting, though I don’t do it very often, but the results of my last burst of inspiration have just been published on MommaHelpers. The first is an article on parenting style, called What Kind Of Parent Are You? See if you recognize yourself.

The second is related to a popular movie and show, Mamma Mia, illustrating a parenting lesson that you can gain from watching the movie. It’s called a parenting lesson from Mamma Mia.

Here’s a round up of my work published in October 2008.

Appvita (September and October reviews)

• Bitstrips – Create Your Own Comic Strip
• Tripit – Your Personal Travel Assistant
• Squidoo – Show Off Your Expertise
• RescueTime – What Do You Do All Day?
• Remember The Milk – Never Forget Another Task
• Profilactic – Aggregating Your Online Identity
• PageOnce – Your Online Personal Assistant
• LibraryThing – Your Online Book Catalog
• Iminta – Connect Your Online Life
• HubPages – Easy And Rewarding Online Publishing
• GoodReads – Read With Friends
• aNobii – The Site For Bookworms
• Etsy – Handmade Items Online

Daily Writing Tips

• An Article Marketing Guide
• The -escent Suffix
• Book Review: Save The Cat
• Punctuation Game

TechGerm

• Vote For Your Favorite Firefox Add-On
• Tech News 10-29-08 – It’s All About Gmail
• Making Sense Of Your Online Social Life
• Add-On Of The Week – Better Gmail 2
• Hello Twellow
• Tech News 10-20-08
• Add-On Of The Week – CustomizeGoogle
• Exploring Gmail Labs – Part 2
• Exploring Gmail Labs – Part 1
• Add On Of The Week: StumbleUpon Toolbar
• Tech News 10-8-08
• Social Sites For Book Lovers
• Add-On Of The Week: AdBlock Plus
• Speech Recognition Software

ParkRideFlyUSA Blog

• Planning Your Halloween Vacation
• Halloween Vacation Ideas
• Layover In Tampa Airport (TPA)
• Three Layover Videos
• Layover In Orlando International Airport (MCO)
• Park, Ride And Fly Quotations
• WTA Grand Tour – Travel News
• Layover In Indianapolis (IND)
• Five Reasons To Book Offsite Airport Parking

Momma Helpers

• Childs Eye View
• Wakey Wakey – Childs Eye View
• Girl Power – Childs Eye View
• Planning Ahead – Childs Eye View