Blogging Tips

Video Blogging Hardware and Software

The shaky cam is now seem as the most trusted form of media.– John Kerr (Director, Edelman Asia)

Despite what so many people think, the barriers to entering the world of video blogging is nearly non-existent. In fact, there are fewer barriers to video blogging than there are to podcasting, if only because you don’t have to worry about bandwidth.

The barriers that video blogging does share in common with podcasting, …

Written by CT Moore from NVI
Posted on September 28th, 2007 and filed under Video Blogging
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Three things I beg you not to do with your MySpace page

Probably most of you don’t use MySpace as your primary blog, but any blogger can learn from the MySpace don’ts.

Don’t set up sounds that play whenever someone visits your site. This includes funny noises, YouTube clips and that song “Wonderland,” no matter how much you might love it. A lot of people surf the web when they’re supposed to be doing something else: at office jobs, in class, etc. When we’re pretending …

Written by Kris Larson from Carthage
Posted on September 27th, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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Does your Blog Captivate

Have you ever done any door to door sales? If you have, you know it’s a tough racket unless you have a knack for selling and develop the skills needed to be successful at selling door to door. I did some door to door sales when I was in college several years ago and after about a month I realized that I had about 15 to 30 seconds to captivate …

Written by jblanton from Success For Your Blog
Posted on September 27th, 2007 and filed under Writing
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What’s Your Point? How to Write Like You Have One

Do You Have a Point?
Each blog post you write should make a single, unified point that stays with the reader afterwards. But sticking to the point is harder than it seems. We easily get distracted by our own thoughts as we write. Too often, the strong point we wanted to make became diluted because of undisciplined writing, and doesn’t have the impact we wish. Working against a checklist of …

Written by Michael Martine from Michael Martine
Posted on September 27th, 2007 and filed under Writing
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Display the latest posts from your favourite bloggers on your blog

Yes, BloggingTips does not give enough coverage to non WordPress blogging platforms and yes, the last post on BloggingTips was about a WordPress Plugin. However, this is such a useful plugin and it is something which I think many of you will install on your blog so I had to post about it

The plugin I am referring to was written by Sarah of Stuff by Sarah and is called ‘…

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 26th, 2007 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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Replace your keywords with links

CashQuests today posted about a great plugin for WordPress called Link a Dink.

The plugin is very straight forward. It allows you to replace words in all of your blog posts with links you specify.

Obviously this has a lot of benefits. From a money making point of view, you could replace keywords with affiliate links etc. As Kumiko suggested in her …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 26th, 2007 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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‘What’s the future of Blogging’ Competition Winners

Two weeks ago I asked readers ‘What’s the future of Blogging?‘. The post generated a lot of good comments about what direction blogging will go in the coming years.

Here are what I consider to be the 4 best comments and my reason for choosing them. In this debate I was looking more for comments which raised good points rather than looking at the comment as a whole.

Each of these bloggers will …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on September 26th, 2007 and filed under Competitions
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