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Blog Ideas: What to Do When You Run Out of Things to Write

May 24, 2013
Pinal Dave
Personal
Best Practices, Blogging, Professional Development

Every blogger hits the day when the list of blog ideas is empty. This post shows where new topics come from: your own questions, reader comments, mistakes you fixed and old posts that deserve a better answer, plus a simple way to keep an idea list.

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Blogging Ethics: Credit, Copyright and Images

May 23, 2013
Pinal Dave
Personal
Best Practices, Blogging, Professional Development

Blogging ethics comes down to saying where things came from. This post covers quoting versus copying, crediting and linking sources, the images you can use, including AI-generated ones, sponsor disclosure, public corrections and comments.

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Writing an Interesting Blog Post People Finish Reading

May 22, 2013
Pinal Dave
Personal
Best Practices, Blogging, Professional Development

Writing an interesting blog post is mostly a matter of habits. This post covers starting with the reader’s problem, keeping one idea per post, using a real example, writing a title that promises something and ending when the point is made.

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Starting a Blog: Own the Domain From Day One

May 21, 2013
Pinal Dave
Personal
Best Practices, Blogging, WordPress

Starting a blog takes an afternoon, but where it lives is the hardest choice to undo. This post compares hosted platforms with self-hosted WordPress, explains why your own domain keeps your links and readers safe, and lists what to set up first and what to skip.

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Blog vs Website: Which One Do You Actually Need?

May 20, 2013
Pinal Dave
Personal
Best Practices, Blogging, Professional Development

The blog vs website question comes down to how much your words change. This post explains who needs which, how to combine them on one address, what a blog costs in time, and why original writing still matters when AI tools answer questions.

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Give It Away: Why Sharing What You Know Makes You Better

December 31, 2011
Pinal Dave
Personal
Blogging, Career Advice, SQL Training

Sharing what you know does not empty you. Like a village well, knowledge fills faster the more people draw from it. A year of publishing every day taught me why giving it away makes the giver better.

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Writing a Good Technical Blog Post

May 1, 2008
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, Blogging, SQL Documentation, SQL Server

A technical blog post works when it solves one problem with tested code, clear assumptions, a readable result, and honest limits.

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