Darren Rowse

Yesterday I looked at 5 methods for being creative. Today I’d like to look at some attitudes to build into your approach if you want to be a more creative person: 1. Curiosity I’ve written previously on the topic of curiosity because I’m convinced that it is an essential skill ...more

Yesterday when I announced this month’s Group Writing Project I had a feeling that it’d be popular – but I didn’t expect the massive list of submissions that I’m about to lay on you. It’s been only 18 hours of the first day and already we have 132 submissions (and ...more

Last week while cleaning up my hard drive I came across an old presentation that I gave to a group of young leaders on how to develop your creativity. As I read through it I realized that some of it was quite appropriate for bloggers wanting to be more creative ...more

It’s time for another ProBlogger Group Writing Project – and this time we’ve got $1001 Cash (USD) up for grabs thanks to our generous sponsors Chitika! PLEASE READ ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE SUBMITTING – the process has changed. Particularly pay attention to the instruction to submit NEW posts not ...more

Yesterday WordPress released a plugin to allow hosted WordPress.org bloggers to use their WordPress.com Stats system on their blogs. I’ve not tested it but Muhammad Saleem’s reviewed it for you here.

One blogger that I think has done a good job of positioning himself as an expert on social media is Neil Patel. I’ve previously linked to quite a bit of Neil’s blogging at Pronet Advertising but in the last few days he’s also started a new blog called QuickSprout – ...more

This is just a short note to give readers some advanced warning that this week is the week for the next ProBlogger Group Writing Project. Tomorrow I’ll announce the topic (it’s one that every blogger of any topic should find accessible) but in the lead up to it I’d like ...more

Ryan Caldwell writes a post over at Performancing on Finding Good Writers For Your Blogs – an explanation of how he hires bloggers to work for him. Eric is writing a series on how and why to move a website to a blog. Nicholas has put together a little PHP ...more

Ben has noticed that Technorati have started giving blogs an ‘Authority Rank’. The Top 100 list used to be base upon incoming links but now is based upon ‘authority’ (although I don’t see much has changed in that list so far). There’s nothing about how they’re coming up with authority ...more