CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

If there’s one post you’re going to read today about how to take a new blog to the next level then I’d recommend it be: 27 Lessons Learned on the Way to 3000 Visits a Day and 2200 RSS Subscribers by John Wesley from Pick the Brain (found via Alister). ...more

Andy Wibbels – topless – with a loofah – giving blog tips…. Scary, but fun and right on the money. Get Scrubbing.

Matthew Haughey from Fortuitous has posted some good tips for building online communities. He does this out of his experience with mega-community site – MetaFilter. The main points were as follows (bold is their points – the rest is some of my reflections as it applies to blogging – some ...more

Nate has posted an article titled The Pressures of Blogging Consistently which outlines four pressures that bloggers face: Pressure #1: Regularly posting articles Pressure #2. Ever-increasing expectations Pressure #3. Catering to a larger audience Pressure #4. Lacking confidence All very true points and some worthwhile things to ponder before getting ...more

One of the little tricks that I use every morning when I first log onto my computer that gets me off to a flying start is to open up my ‘StartUp Folder’ on Firefox. This is a bookmark folder that contains 15 or so key sites that quickly give me ...more

Comment Spam, Trolls in Comments, Servers Crashing, Personal Attacks in Posts, Getting Hacked, Public Critique…. While there’s a lot of positive things to be said for blogging – there are also days where blogging can all get a little too much and get even the most positive of bloggers down. ...more

A few people have been asking me to write a post summarizing the benefits of running last week’s ‘Top 5’ group writing project (GWP). I’d summarize it as being worth doing in five main areas (and will add a few ‘costs’ of doing it below also): 1. Participation The main ...more

In the last 12 months there has been a lot of activity in the online shop space. We’ve seen Chitika’s Shoplincs, Zlio and Amazon’s aStore. I’ve personally used each of the three and have only had any real success with Shoplincs. So today when another shop service came onto my ...more

This week I’ve been exploring the topic of Creativity and how to be a more creative blogger (see the previous posts on the creative process and attitudes of creative people). The first part explored methods of creativity, yesterday I shared some attitudes of creative people and today I’d like to ...more