What is Fueling Your Blog?

July 5, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Relationships, Blogging, Editorial, Social Networking | Leave a Comment

I want to know what is really fueling your blog?
What keeps you blogging on? What inspires you to keep publishing content on your blog? What keeps you coming back for more?
Is it the blog traffic? Do you hover over your blog stats stressing out when the numbers go down and researching all the different [...]

How Long Does It Take You to Write a Blog Post?

July 1, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Editorial, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Publishing | 8 Comments

I’m often asked how long it takes me to write a blog post or web article. My answer is: until it’s done.
Some blog posts take only a few minutes from idea to finished product. A few minutes to edit and clean it up, making sure I’ve got all the bits and pieces in the [...]

Doubting the Legitimacy of Blog Comments

June 30, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Comments, Editorial, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, WordPress | 6 Comments

When you get a comment such as:
Teens are upward on the drooling era because they aren’t unmarried to scrimp joyous and attractive proclamations and they are amorously the depressing to be the looks of hollywood icons.
And it arrives on a blog post about your favorite WordPress Plugins, it’s really clear that this is comment spam, [...]

Do You Podcast? Are You Going to Podcast on Your Blog?

June 27, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Editorial, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Multimedia, Podcasting | 4 Comments

Yesterday, I brought up the issue of podcasts in What Makes Podcasts Fun To Listen To? The post asked what makes your favorite podcasts fun and successful in your eyes in format and structure.
Podcasts on blogs are growing in popularity. With portable media players, especially iPods, more affordable and accessible, people are downloading podcasts [...]

What Makes Podcasts Fun To Listen To?

June 26, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Editorial, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Podcasting, Podcasts | 11 Comments

I’ve been listening to a lot of blogger podcasts lately covering a wide range of subjects. Most have a fairly standard format of introduction, preview of the show to come, then news, interviews, and a summary, but some just jump right in and wander all over the place.
Well-written blog posts tend to have a single [...]

The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog Ebook

June 24, 2008 | Filed Under Editorial, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, News, Passion, Professional Bloggers, Professional Blogging, Publishing, Recommended, Reviews, Social Media | 3 Comments

Liz Strauss released her new ebook, The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog — The Insider’s Guide to the Conversation That’s Changing How Business Works, this weekend to rave reviews.
Based upon the lessons she learned on her own blogs, Successful and Outstanding Bloggers and Liz Strauss, as a long time writer for the [...]

Why Does a Blog Post Fail?

June 23, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Editorial, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Passion, SEO | Leave a Comment

In Blog Challenge: What Are Your Most Favorite Blog Post Failures, one of the regular blog challenges I issue to “kick your blogging butt,” Atul Sabnis of Gaizabonts accepted the challenge to describe one of your favorite blog posts to write, one you were sure would get a lot of attention, but didn’t.
The challenge was [...]

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What is Fueling Your Blog?
July 5, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | Leave a Comment

UK companies aren’t clear on new “fake blogging” laws
July 4, 2008 | By Andy Merrett | Leave a Comment

British companies which pretend to blog as ordinary members of the public, or post multiple positive reviews as if from consumers, are now breaking UK law, yet many don’t know anything about the new legislation, according to Brands2Life.
Its director, Gareth Thomas, said that, “Most people don’t know about this law,” adding, “there is a misconception [...]

Berocca sends out Blogger Relief Packs
July 4, 2008 | By Andy Merrett | 2 Comments

The concept may not be that new, but a couple of weeks ago a colleague introduced me to Berocca’s Blogger Relief Pack. I signed up with one of my blogs, and yesterday received the pack.

While it’s not the complete answer to managing the stress of blogging, a tube of Berocca and a nice glass to [...]

ScribeFire 2.2.8 Released
July 4, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

ScribeFire is a popular desktop blogging application hosted in a Firefox extension. Version 2.2.8 includes fixes and some brush-ups. The extension is free to download from Mozilla Add-ons, and works with both Firefox 2 and 3.

Two New b5media Blogs Launched
July 4, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Another two b5media blogs launched recently. Marye Audet edits Simply Home Remedies, which is about just that. This from the launch post:
For the past 20 years or so my family has lived without the assistance of commercial medicines or doctors, except for things like broken arms and emergency surgeries on retro-pharyngeal abscesses. You know, the [...]

Hitting the Frontpage of Digg
July 3, 2008 | By Matt Craven | 1 Comment

Skelliewag takes a look at playing the odds and trying to “win” with Digg - a great article with some fantastic tips on how to promote your site using Digg.
Most bloggers would love their content to hit the front page of Digg. Unfortunately, most of those bloggers are never able to experience the huge spike [...]

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