Winners of the Flip Video Camera and ProBlogger Books
1st of August 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Winners of the Flip Video Camera and ProBlogger Books

Earlier in the week I offered ProBlogger readers signing up for the BlogMastermind Blog Mentoring program the chance to win a Flip video camera and 5 ProBlogger books. The 48 hour window to win is up and the winners (selected randomly) are: Winner of Flip Video Camera (I just bought ...more
ProBlogger Site News
How Social Media Helped Me Get Unbanned from a Social Media Site in 1 Hour and 44 Minutes
1st of August 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How Social Media Helped Me Get Unbanned from a Social Media Site in 1 Hour and 44 Minutes

In my last post I wrote that I’d just discovered that StumbleUpon had banned me. I’m happy to announce that 1 hour and 44 minutes after posting that – I was unbanned. How did it happen? I put it down to Social Media. Here’s the story: I had a number ...more
Social Media
ProBlogger is Banned from StumbleUpon
1st of August 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

ProBlogger is Banned from StumbleUpon

This story has been updated at the bottom of this post. This morning a number of readers have emailed or tweeted me to let me know that when they try to bookmark a post on ProBlogger that it leads them to a page saying that ProBlogger has been banned from ...more
Social Media
Talking Blog Networks
1st of August 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Talking Blog Networks

There has been ALOT of talk around the blogosphere about blog networks lately – ALOT! Some of it is as a result of the closing of the Know More Media blog network, some of it as a result of AOL and Gawker making changes to the way their networks pay ...more
Blog Networks
8 Useful Tips for Building Your Mommy Blog Into a Business
1st of August 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

8 Useful Tips for Building Your Mommy Blog Into a Business

Today Vered DeLeeuw from MomGrind suggests ways for turning a mommy blog into a business. These tips are not limited to mommy blogs: they can be applied to personal blogs in general. Image by KellyandApril. MomGrind is a personal blog. It chronicles my thoughts and struggles. It is where I ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
12 Hours To Go to Win a Flip in the BlogMastermind Competition (plus a new bonus)
31st of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

12 Hours To Go to Win a Flip in the BlogMastermind Competition (plus a new bonus)

36 hours ago I announced the re-launch of Yaro’s BlogMastermind Blog Mentoring program. As part of my promotion of it I offered any ProBlogger reader who signs up the chance to win one of six prizes. First prize is a Flip Video Mino Series Camcorder (worth $179) and 5 runners ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Add These Plurk Users as Your Friends
30th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Add These Plurk Users as Your Friends

Today the Social Media Love-In here at ProBlogger continues with a list of 145 bloggers who use Plurk. So far we’ve presented you with bloggers who use Digg, some that use StumbleUpon and a lot of them who use Twitter. Today’s list is smaller than the others but I think ...more
Social Media
Win a Full Conference Pass at Blog World Expo!
30th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Win a Full Conference Pass at Blog World Expo!

One of my biggest regrets of 2007 was not being able to attend Blog World Expo. The reports that came out of BWE from thousands of bloggers were quite amazing. Rich networking, great teaching, showcases of services and tools for bloggers and much much more. This year Blog World Expo ...more
ProBlogger Site News
Blog Hosting Recommendations – Who Hosts Yours?
30th of July 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blog Hosting Recommendations – Who Hosts Yours?

Editor: Check out this post on Darren’s updated recommendations for best blog hosting options for bloggers in 2018 “Can you give me advice on which host to go with to host my blog?” It’s a question that I’m asked a lot – but one that I can’t offer a lot ...more
Blogging Tools and Services