Sep 14, 2015
Mignon Fogarty (@MignonFogarty) is the founder of Quick and Dirty Tips, the multi-faceted publishing website that produces dozens of topic-specific podcasts based on several characters, the most famous of which is Grammar Girl.
Since creating the Grammar Girl Podcast, Mignon has authored 7 books, collected a host of podcasting awards, and recently assumed the Donald W. Reynolds Chair in Media Entrepreneurship at the University of Nevada Reno.
Our conversation follows Mignon's origins in online business, how she leveraged her early podcast success and existing personal relationships to create a broader network, and how she still prefers to do certain production elements herself.
"There's a lot of power in networks"
—Mignon Fogarty
"People write in different ways for different media."
—Mignon Fogarty
"What texting is, despite the fact that it involves the brute mechanics of something that we call writing, is fingered speech."
—John McWhorter
"The Internet is [still] mostly a written medium."
—Prescott Perez-Fox
Professor
Fogarty Mignon teaches Media Entrepreneurship & Social
Journalism
"Applesaucing", Prescott's term for re-purposing and re-publishing your content
How Mignon organises and
plans a book. Very cool
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Mignon has written 7 books in 6 years — in your face, Todd Henry!
When recording from her home, Mignon uses a walk-in closet with a snowball mic
Mignon Fogarty tells her story to Leo Laporte on Triangulation,
episode 117
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