This Saturday will mark 14 years of blogging. Here’s some of what I’ve learned … Technically-speaking? Put the word “diabetes” in your blog title. Invest in a full-throated URL (instead of a .blogger or .wordpress site). Spellcheck and grammar check every single post. Use images, as they are nice and help flesh out your content. Back your content up. I’ll…
What I’ve Learned After 14 Years of Blogging About My Health
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes and Emotions, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Memories, Diabetes Online Community, Real Life Diabetes, RelationshipsMuted.
Diabetes and Emotions, Diabetes and Family, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, Diabetic MommyAhh bullet points. Ye be the only(e) way I can process things at the moment. I don’t have a lot to say over here lately, and there are a dozen different reasons for that. One is that the new baby kiddo keeps me extremely busy, what with his cluster feeding and chatty ways, and also the fact that he is…
To A Crisp.
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes and Emotions, Diabetes Online Community, Psychosocial Support, Real Life DiabetesThe folks at Diabetes Daily have cobbled together a day to discuss diabetes social media burnout. (Yes, ironic to dedicate a day of online discussion about diabetes social media burnout …) but the topic is real and something that we have all encountered over the years, so it bears discussion. Only I’m not talking about it today. Why? Because I…
If I Knew Then: Diabetes Blogging.
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes and Emotions, Diabetes and Family, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, Psychosocial Support, Real Life DiabetesI wish I had known, at the outset, what a “blog” was. When Chris suggested I start one back in 2005, the face I made was as though he had shoved a lemon into my mouth. “A blaaaaahgg?” I wish I had known that things like SEO would matter – not on the “I need more page views” sort of…
Think Like a Pancreas: The Blog.
Diabetes Online Community, Guest Diabetes Blogger, Healthcare, Pumping InsulinI’ve known Gary for several years, and most of my interactions with him have been silly (confessing that my daughter busts out dance moves to the Philadelphia 76er’s theme song), so I leaned on his website to pull a formal bio description. “An award-winning Certified Diabetes Educator, Masters-level Exercise Physiologist and person with type-1 diabetes since 1985, Gary Scheiner has…