Hi friends!

I had one of you email me asking for advice about starting your own blog.  Here is a little advice.

• Know your topic and style beforehand.
• Blog regularly or you'll lose readers
• Keep your posts short enough that busy people will read them
• Throw in a little personal touch and connection- not just strictly business and SLP stuff - a little personal flavor keeps people connected to the blog.
• Look at and comment on others' blogs and they will do the same for you.
• Keep your posts relevant and helpful/functional.
• Label your posts at the bottom so people will find your blog when Google searching.
• Get followers- through give-aways that require following, and networking with other blogs, and of course having a following button somewhere on the blog. 
• Tweet posts or put them on facebook to get more traffic.
• Encourage comments.
• Keep the blog looking clean and attractive.

Also, my blog buddy Kim posted a FABULOUS post about this same topic- I highly recommend it for any of you who are interested:  click here. 

~K

Back from the sabbatical!

Hi blog reading friends!  It's Kristin here.  I have taken a long break and really thought I had posted my very last post.  I thought Bob was done to (we really haven't seen eachother or talked for a long time.  You know how new babies can turn someone's life upside-down and all.)  But some of you have been so encouraging lately, and you made me want to get back into it a bit.  I think Bob might even start blogging a little mroe here and there as well (hint hint, Bob!).  :)

Let me know if you're still reading this blog!  My plan is to try to post twice a week, so check in with me here and there and know of course that we LOVE comments.  Questions, post requests and ideas, feelings, stories- anything!

Here are some of my up-coming posts to give you something to look forward to:

• BRS-S - Should you look into getting Board Recognition as a Swallowing Specialist?
• My Most frequently-used apps for cognitive therapy.
• Tips for starting your own blog.
• Working on cognition for patients with dementia (by request from one of our fabulous readers).

See you soon!

Kristin

My bad

I'm sitting in a training about resources for SLPs on the web and I see my blog as one of the "home grown" resources. Instantly I feel a ping of guilt for having neglected my blog for so long. This year has been fun and very busy, but I want to get back into sharing therapy ideas, reviewing apps, and so forth.

So, please... don't go any where

Of course I might be hanging out on pinterest or twitter.

have a good one

~bob

Best Speech Therapy Blogs

Check it out guys!  We were able to be featured in this site (Online Education Database) as one of the 20 Best Speech Therapy Blogs out there!  We are so proud.  Go check it out, will you?  Also, note that we added this site to our side bar. 

http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/20-best-speech-therapy-blogs


XOXO
Kristin