CategoryVideo Posts

Click to play play_blip_movie_1247836(); In this video post I reflect upon the one of the downsides of changing your blog’s brand and/or design. While updating blog design, logos and avatars in social media sites can bring a lot of life to a blog and present you with an up to ...more

View the full sized version of this video at Blip, YouTube or Viddler (you’ll probably want to to see the text of what I’m talking about). Yesterday I wrote about how to choose a topic to write about for blog posts and today in this video post I want to ...more

It has been a while since my last video and in this one I’ll show you the reason why – my son Henri who arrived just a few weeks ago has been taking a lot of my attention of late. In this video I want to talk about adding a ...more

You’ve probably heard the age old ‘how to find readers for your blog’ advice that goes: “Leave Comments on Other Blogs” It was one of the first tips that I was given on how to find new readers for my blog five years ago and it’s one of the first ...more

As mentioned in my last post – today saw Karen, Neerav and myself featured in an Aussie national news story on channel TEN. Many international readers have asked to see the story so Neerav has posted it on Google Video for you. If you’d like to see the full sized ...more

In last week’s video I examined 5 Emerging Trends in blogging. A few readers emailed to say that while they agreed with the trends I had identified that they felt a little overwhelmed by them and not equipped to embrace the trends on their own blogs. They were concerned that ...more

Over in the question widget on my sidebar I was asked to comment on the future of blogging and where I see it heading. In this video post I explore 5 trends that have been emerging (and that I think we’ll see continue to grow) including: Multiple Author Blogs Multi-Topic ...more

You get an idea for a post – it might start out as just a few words, a title, a point or two – but how do you take the idea and mould it into a full post? In he above video (see a full sized version of it here) ...more

Two days ago I asked my followers on Twitter why they loved Twitter. There were over 100 responses within 2 hours and some of them were really good – I wasn’t sure what to do with them all but just yesterday I’d seen a video with a whole lot of ...more