Recent Posts
In this space, I will share updates from Allison Stein Consulting and post articles about writing, editing, and design.
Resource Review: Hootsuite
Hootsuite, a service for scheduling social media posts across platforms, also maintains an active blog on strategies for building social campaigns and social media best practices. If you are interested in social media strategy, social media marketing, best practices, sentiment analysis, or inclusive design, keep listening.
Resource Review: Grammar Girl
Grammar Girl is a blog featuring articles and podcast episodes about the English language, with an emphasis on history and culture. If you are interested in language, grammar rules, grammar myths, history, or culture, keep listening.
Resource Review: Morgan Timm
Morgan Timm, created by an experienced lifestyle blogger of the same name, features articles about blogging, entrepreneurship, and social media. If you are interested in blogging, blog traffic, social media, business, or brand strategy, keep listening.
Resource Review: Grammarly
Grammarly focuses on standards and habits for writing in the workplace, with an emphasis on communication in context rather than grammar for the sake of grammar. If you are interested in communication, editing, style, voice, or readability, keep listening.
Resource Review: Sprout Social
The Sprout Social blog emphasizes best practices on social media and offers tools and templates for social media managers to ensure their social presence is on track across multiple platforms. If you are interested in social media audits, post length, posting time, or analytics, keep listening.
Resource Review: The Creative Penn
The Creative Penn, which is run by thriller author and self-publishing expert Joanna Penn, focuses on how to make sustainable decisions as an independent creative and features weekly interviews with guest authors. If you are interested in sustainability, entrepreneurship, creative business, self-publishing, or learning strategies, keep listening.
Resource Review: Louise Henry
Louise Henry, created by an online business owner of the same name, features articles about blogging, entrepreneurship, web content creation, and project management. If you are interested in online business, blogging, Squarespace, project management, or Asana, keep listening.
Resource Review: The Write Life
The Write Life provides a variety of resources for professional writers who are interested in working with clients, creating personal and guest blog content, publishing their work traditionally or independently, improving their writing (across multiple genres), and marketing their books or services through an author platform. If you are interested in freelance writing, blogging, publishing strategies, the writing craft, or author platforms, keep listening.
Resource Review: Making It
Making It, the blog published by Squarespace, features guidance on how to get more out of the platform’s website builder, articles about trends in entrepreneurship, and profiles of entrepreneurs who use Squarespace to launch or grow their businesses. If you are interested in website building, online stores, blogging, digital portfolios, or Squarespace products, keep listening.
Resource Review: Writer’s Digest
Writer’s Digest provides information to and serves a community-building function for writers interested in building their skill set and getting published. If you are interested in writing, editing, grammar, publishing, or inspiration, keep listening.
Editing & Publishing Resources
In this blog post, I feature a roundup of my favorite websites focused on editing and publishing. I highlight five resources: The Write Life, Grammarly, The Creative Penn, Writer’s Digest, and Grammar Girl.
Professional Promotion Resources
In this blog post, I feature a roundup of my favorite websites focused on professional promotion and social media management. I highlight five resources: Making It, Hootsuite, Morgan Timm, Sprout Social, and Louise Henry.