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I’m starting to get really excited about the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge that starts next week here on ProBlogger. I’ve been busily writing a lot of the teaching and assignments for it already and am excited to see that well over 4300 people have signed up ...more

Starting on 1 April (Update: this is now starting on 6th April) I am planning on launching another ‘31 Days to a Better Blog‘ project. I’ve run this twice previously (once in 2005 and once in 2007) so thought that I should continue the biennial nature of it. This year ...more

It’s just ticked over to Christmas Day here in Australia and I wanted to take a moment from the normal rhythm of this blog to stop and wish you all a Merry Christmas. Here in Australia we don’t do ‘Thanksgiving’ as a holiday and so in our house Christmas is ...more

Earlier in the month I ran a competition here on ProBlogger in conjunction with World Vision Australia and their blog Learn About Poverty. The competition was for Australian bloggers to give World Vision advice on their online strategy going forward. We had 29 entries and having read through them all ...more

Today is Blog Action Day – a day where thousands of bloggers around the world commit to write on the one topic in the hope of creating awareness around that issue. The topic this year is Poverty. For a lot of great resources on the topic of Poverty check out ...more

One of the strategies that I use on each of my blogs these days is to have a newsletter (I use Aweber to send them) that is associated with each blog. On my photography blog this newsletter is a weekly affair (I send them each Thursday) but here on ProBlogger ...more

Let me make this very clear up front – this competition is for Australian residents only. I know this cuts out the majority of you but it is for charity and every other competition I’ve run is for everyone – so please forgive me for this localized focus. Having said ...more

I’m really excited today to announce that I have joined the advisory board of Photrade (picture is by Renee Blodgett and is Andrew Paradies, CEO of Photrade). You can read the press release here – but in short, Photrade is a company that excites me on numerous fronts and crosses ...more

Today is ProBlogger’s 4th birthday and I’m not actually going to ‘see’ it. ProBlogger as a blog was born on 23rd September 2004 when I imported a series of 40 or so blog tips that I’d been writing over the last couple of years on my old personal blog to ...more