BACK ON TRACK

I feel like I have been gone a long time.

Most of you know that I have four blogs:

All that bugs blog
Blog and Cookies
Cooking With Jack
Need Prayer Now

I have been so distracted by my other jobs that I haven't kept up on the blogs too much. I have just finished producing a movie, filming cooking videos, trying to set up my church to broadcast live on the internet, and been on Twitter like a crazy man.

BTW, my twitter id is jakatak4 if you want to follow me. I will in turn follow you, too.

I have also had time to re-evaluate my blogs and decide if they are all needed. I have decided to keep them all. YEAH!!!!

Okay now let me bring you up to date on what I plan to do with each one.

All that bugs blog: not a healthy blog since I am trying to stop complaining as much. I will still keep it up there so I can inform people about things that bug me. I will just be more selective, like for example, did you know if you have a mattress from Sit n' Sleep here in LA and you somehow (don't ask me how) get a stain on the mattress, your warranty is no longer good. These are the type of complaints I want to do. Not as often, but much healthier complaining.

Blog and Cookies: This blog is about info that you need to know about that is positive. Like Pownce getting taken over by Six Apart. I am not complaining, but it's a hot topic.

Cooking with Jack: This blog will have more cooking tips. I will be producing a cooking video each week and posting it up there. I will give great tip like: before refrigerating your package of bacon, be sure to roll it up and put a rubber band around it. This way when you unroll it to cook it, each slice will be separate from the rest. It helps separate the bacon so you don't tear each piece.

Need Prayer Now: This blog is going to stay up for anyone who needs a pray. I also will be giving some insight to my thoughts about my faith and things I learn during my spiritual growth. Things like: did you know that "knowledge" is what you know and "wisdom" is how you use how you use what you know.

All my blogs will be shorter and to the point. Sometimes I ramble on and on and on and ..... well, you get it.

I am glad to be back. It's hard keeping up with your family life, work life, Twitter, facebook, emails, texts, etc. Feel free to subscribe to my newsletter in the upper right corner of this page.

Take care and we will be taking soon.

The top 3 things not to do on a blog

I have been reading a lot of blogs. Most are either too long, no pictures, or just plain self serving.

If you are thinking on doing a blog here are three things you should never do:

1. never do stuff like "The top 3 things......" or "The 10 best reasons...." or any countdown stuff like that. Everyone's doing them and it's a cop out. Yes it will get you on digg.com and yes it will get you on del.icio.us and you might make lots of money off it, but it's just not right.

2. never use the words "Critically Acclaimed" to describe you or your blog postings. These words are protected and solely used to discribe TV and Movies. The entertainment industry owns the rights to these words and unless your posting about a new critically acclaimed series on TV, don't use these words.
By the way, what does "Critically Acclaimed" really mean?

3. Lastly, don't ever tell people you have 3 things to write about when you only have two. It's better to just change the title of your blog to "The top 2 things not to do on a blog"

4. and NEVER EVER add more than what you say. you might lose the attention span of your reader.

Honestly though, if you want to have a successful blog there are only two things that truly make a blog successful. QUALITY and QUANTITY of your blog. You must write something worth reading and you must keep growing your blog. The more topics you post the higher the chance of popping up on Google. If the blog is good, the people will come.

Don't believe anything else you read. :-)