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Convenience, cooking, and what Blue Apron offers its customers

by Cynthia Closkey, March 11, 2015

If you sign up to have a box of groceries and matching recipes delivered to your house every week, what are you buying? Convenience and the chance to avoid grocery checkout lines? A fancy meal that you have to cook yourself? Or the experience of making something new?

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How to start your awesome blog (for the absolute beginner)

by Cynthia Closkey, December 6, 2014

A few weekends ago, I presented a couple of sessions at PodCamp Pittsburgh 9. The first was Blogging 101, a novice-level session. Here’s a video of the session, plus the written notes I prepared ahead of time.

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“Find your niche”: Thoughts from the Pittsburgh Women Bloggers panel

by Cynthia Closkey, September 11, 2014

Back in June, I spoke on a panel of Pittsburgh-based women bloggers put together by NAWBO of Greater Pittsburgh (National Association of Women Business Owners). The panel included a great mix of savvy women: R’Chelle Mullins of Creatively Yours by Ro Media and fashion stylist Suzanne Mauro Mercedes Howze, the Movie Scene Queen Heather Hopson […]

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The joys of not always being on-message in your blog

by Cynthia Closkey, August 27, 2014

Jenna McGuiggan at The Word Cellar shares a sweet and thoughtful post about how blogging can be surprisingly loaded.

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What to do now that Facebook won’t let you force people to like your page

by Cynthia Closkey, August 27, 2014

The folks at ShortStack — a service that helps you create apps and interesting things on Facebook Pages — have some excellent thoughts on what Facebook’s decision to ban fan-gating on Pages, and tips for how to adjust your Page. At ShortStack we have over 350,000 customers, all of whom are Facebook Page Admins. I’m […]

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Cynthia on AwesomeCast 212: “Commercial Weeds”

by Cynthia Closkey, August 20, 2014

Please enjoy another fast-paced and super-informative episode of AwesomeCast with Cynthia joining the panel: Topics include: An app that can help you with your to-do list; Timeful. – 2:40 A roku built right into a TV. – 5:15 The WWE Supercard app. – 10:20 The Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS. – 15:15 A replacement for […]

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