Turning up at a company event without knowing what you are supposed to do there is more common than anybody admits. Wanda Mills wrote the post that fixes it: arrive early, stay late, and go looking for the people who can tell you something rather than the ones who will agree with you.
Her other genuinely useful piece names the fear of picking up the phone as a condition, half joking and half not, which is the only way anyone gets to admit to it.
The blogging advice is about pace. How to post daily without the day disappearing, what speed blogging actually involves, and a simple system for keeping affiliate links organised before there are too many.
Weight loss supplements get several posts and read like the promotions they are.
She also writes about parenting a rebelling teenager and about a writer she admired who died, and both are warmer than the rest.
Read the event post before your next one. It will change what you do on the first evening.