College in a Suitcase

Slowest. Shift. Ever. It’s 3 hours and I see about one person every hour. Not that I’m complaining, just more noting it.

Today, yes even on Superbowl Sunday, I will give you a blog review from my series.

Name of Blog: Two Writing Teachers
Blog URL: http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/
About the Author(s): Ruth and Stacey are two teachers who live miles apart but yet talk all the time and are even working on a book. I don’t know much about them, but they sound like super cool people.
What I Think of This Blog: I really like it. I think it’s very informative and they have good strong voice.
Example of a Topic Covered: Back to School Week
Relevance to College Students: If you are going into education – this blog would be huge for you!
Does This Blog Make It To My Blogs to Read Bookmarks?: Yes! Even though I’m not going into education, I read blogs like this because a) I enjoy the writers and b) I like to pass posts along to my friends that I find interesting/helpful. A lot of my friends are going to be future teachers.

Miss Lissy

So just sitting here at work again, knowing that my posts have gotten to be more and more sporadic. But on the good news front, one of my friends, who was only going to stay at my school for a semester and this semester is already one more than that, told me that they’re probably going to be here next year too.

So onto another blog review from my series

Name of Blog: Incurable Disease of Writing
Blog URL: http://www.missyfrye.net/Blog/
About the Author: I can’t find out much more other than that her name is Missy.
What I Think of This Blog: I’m honestly not impressed. There doesn’t seem to be any content that stands out to me. Plus it does that click for more thing that I strongly dislike.
Example of a Topic Covered: Just Write Blog Carnival August 28, 2009 Edition Just your typical blog carnival
Relevance to College Students:If you are interested in writing/are a writer than yes.
Does This Blog Make It To My Blogs to Read Bookmarks?: No – like I said, I’m not impressed. Sorry.

Miss Lissy

Hello – I’m back (again). Bet you thought I left you (promises I didn’t, I was just sick/busy with the start of a new semester). I’m still going through my blogging series, still planning a wedding (my wonderful fiancee came and surprised me this weekend with a trip here!), and still double majoring in writing and political science (second semester sophomore).

Name of Blog: The Writing Journey
Blog URL: http://writing-journey.com/
About the Author: His name is Bob and he writes on the internet. That’s what I found out.
What I Think of This Blog: Glancing over the titles, I like what he has to offer. I’ve definitely used the egg timer personally. Skimming the blog posts, I also like what I read. However, none of it really motivates me to click the read more link. (And you guys know by now, that I don’t really like read more links – I want all the content up front and easy access). Also, it’s not updated very often.
Example of a Topic Covered: How to Become a Successful Copywriter An interesting (and potentially helpful) post.
Relevance to College Students: As Klae pointed out, other majors have to do writing as well. However, I feel that this blog is geared towards those who want to, as that post points out, be successful copywriters. As such, if you aspire or need that as well, this is relevant to you.
Does This Blog Make It To My Blogs to Read Bookmarks?: Unfortunately not. Even though I am looking for more variety (a lot of wedding blogs right now).

Miss Lissy

Hey everyone – sorry I was gone so long. Spending much needed time with my lovely fiancee. I don’t get to see him much, so this time was special. I’m back to the series today.

Name of Blog: The Urban Muse
Blog URL: http://www.urbanmusewriter.com/
About the Author: Her name is Susan and she is a freelance writer who enjoys exploring new places.
What I Think of This Blog: I like it. It’s updated regularly and it’s about freelance, but there’s a lot of things relevant to the rest of the writing world. I like it.
Example of a Topic Covered: Guest Post: How to Write Introductions that Grab Readers Really helpful information for any writer and any blogger.
Relevance to College Students: If you are a writing major – I think this is invaluable.
Does This Blog Make It To My Blogs to Read Bookmarks?: Yes – I really like it and it is quality content.

Miss Lissy

So, the blog review I was going to do was a dead link.

So you get the unequaled privilege of hearing about my drive yesterday. Which I really hated. It wasn’t too bad until the last hour – when it was dark and people kept flashing their brights in my eyes and I thought that I was going to drive over the edge. It was really uber scary.

But now I’m at MLC – everyone around me is studying and I’m very thankful that I don’t have exams. I hope you are all having a good time – even if it’s cold.

Miss Lissy

I finished my last sit down exam and I have a portfolio due tomorrow (that still needs much too much editing) and a final paper (that I’ll probably crank out in about an hour).

But you are expecting a blog review and I will deliver it unto you.

Name of Blog: SmallFishBigMoney.com
Blog URL: http://smallfishbigmoney.com/
About the Author: He’s 17! Holy man that’s cool – I know that blogging is on the rise among people my age, but it still doesn’t feel like a whole lot. His name is Fabien Chetty and he’s from Perth, Australia and used to live in the Seychelles. I have to say, I am very impressed. I would not have pegged him as that age. I would have pegged him as older. I was blogging too at the age (or very shortly thereafter) and my blog was nowhere near as professional or focused. My blog still isn’t the most focused, but we have different goals for our blogs in mind.
What I Think of This Blog: It is very impressive, like I said. The design is very modern and sleek. I know it commits one of my blog “sins” but I’ll let it go because I think the content is worth clicking through. It could be updated more but the content is worthwhile.
Example of a Topic Covered: Take Control of Your Subconscious – Change Your Life Now It is what it says it is.
Relevance to College Students: I think if you are going into business it is very relevant.
Does This Blog Make It To My Blogs to Read Bookmarks?: Yes – there are reasons why it couldn’t, but the information is valuable and mostly, I want to support others my age who blog because I know it can be frustrating to blog especially if no one is reading, but at the same time, it can be a great experience.

Miss Lissy

So we are getting dumped on. Jim Doyle has declared a state of emergency for the entire state and closed all UW schools. But for the suckers at UW-Milwaukee, who decided to go ahead and have class anyways, I think that it sucks. The governor cancels class and then your school is like just kidding. Well I tell you, for the first time in my life I did not want a snow day. We would have had to take today’s exams on Saturday. I don’t even have any exams but it would have pushed back hall closing and I am more than ready to be done with this semester.

At any rate, you are expecting another post from our blog review series.

Name of Blog: Quiet Rebel Writer
Blog URL: http://www.quietrebelwriter.com/
About the Author: I couldn’t find anything
What I Think of This Blog: It needs some coding work and hasn’t been updated in a long time. The content is just okay in my opinion.
Example of a Topic Covered: Case Study: Facing Down New Project Anxiety I don’t appreciate the language – unnecessary, but I do think it makes a few valid points.
Relevance to College Students: Not sure on this one. I want to say yes because of the content, but something needs to be updated to be relevant, at least I believe.
Does This Blog Make It To My Blogs to Read Bookmarks?: No – if it hasn’t been updated since April, it doesn’t have a chance.

Miss Lissy

I’m holding in there for the end. I’ll be leaving this place on Saturday and I am glad to be getting a break. This semester has been trying. This whole school experience will always be trying. I just don’t fit in here and if I stay true to Christ I won’t.

But I will faithfully do a review for you.

Name of Blog: Freelance Parent
Blog URL: http://www.sparkplugging.com/freelance-parent/
About the Authors: Her name is Traci Love (which I absolutely love that her last name is love) and she has a toddler daughter. (I personally love learning about bloggers’ families more than anything else). And there’s Christina Lemmy who is a wife and mother of two daughters. They both work! Huzzah.
What I Think of This Blog: It has really helpful information from the business side of things. I can’t really find a date on things, so I’m not sure how often it’s updated but the latest post I feel was updated before October 8th or is really, really early to be asking people to register.
Example of a Topic Covered: Learn Something New (and Enjoy It!) I think this is so true – the points it makes about learning new things.
Relevance to College Students: Definitely from the business marketing side it could be very helpful.
Does This Blog Make It To My Blogs to Read Bookmarks?: With not knowing when it was last updated and with me still wanting to focus more on the creative side of things right now, it’s not quite making the cut.

Miss Lissy

Look! I’ve made it snow on my blog! (Only in hopes that perhaps it won’t snow in real life). I know it doesn’t work that way, but I can pretend – can’t I?

I’ll give you another post in the series if I have time.

Name of Blog: Get Paid to Write Online
Blog URL: http://www.getpaidtowriteonline.com/
About the Author: Her name is Sharon Hurley Hall and she does a lot of ghostwriting and also academic writing.
What I Think of This Blog: I think the information is very relevant. I dislike that it only shows you one post on the main page and makes you click to get to the other more recent ones. I want as much information as possible as upfront as possible.
Example of a Topic Covered: I Got A Proximidade Award! It is about a blogging award that she got. I’ve never gotten a blogging award but I would love to get one.
Relevance to College Students: If this is a field you want to go into (freelancing) this is perfect for you.
Does This Blog Make It To My Blogs to Read Bookmarks?: No. It’s not a field I want to go into and like I said before, I dislike that it makes me click to go into more posts.

Peace out,
Miss Lissy

So, I’m really tired today. I’m not going to lie. It has not been a good week of sleeping for me. And with school being the uber busy thing that it is and with Monday and Tuesday being my longest days, I am exhausted.

But I am back to my series.

Name of Blog: Catalyst Blogger
Blog URL: http://catalystblogger.blogspot.com/
About the Author: Her name is Jennifer and she owns Catalyst Writing Services.
What I Think of This Blog: I think the blog is very interesting and updated semi-regularly. It focuses a lot on business writing and copy writing.
Example of a Topic Covered: Guest Post: Advice from a Freelance PR Writer to Press Release Seekers It’s pretty interesting, but not so relevant to me.
Relevance to College Students: If you plan on going into this specific type of writing, I think that it gives you a clear heads up on what it will be like after you graduate.
Does This Blog Make It To My Blogs to Read Bookmarks?: No. Unfortunately, this is not the kind of writing I want to do, so while it’s good advice, at this time, it’s not relevant.

Miss Lissy