Ah! It’s New Year and boy, I’m excited! A fresh breath of air, it promises new ventures, new ideas, new partnerships and a whole new experience. I’m sure just like 2007, 2008 is going to be a very eventful year for bloggers. So, wishing you all a very happy and exciting new year ahead, let’s see what happened last week here on the blogosphere.
Karen, at Google’s official blog has posted last years summary of blogging at Google Official Blog. It also has statistics and numbers. You can see some interesting ones…
Punctuation is important, sure, but it’s not a deal-breaker. For the most part, your readers probably don’t care whether you’re comma-crazed, like me, or writing marathon run-on sentences. Few people are studying closely to determine whether you should be using parentheses rather than dashes. Still, there are a few instances where something as small and boring as a punctuation mark can make or break your post.
The most exciting mark is, of course, the exclamation point. This gets overused a lot, especially in email. That’s because the exclamation point is the…
As my first post in 2008 on BloggingTips I thought I would share some of the things that I learned about blogging in 2007. So here are a few things reflecting back on 2007.
You don’t have to be the best writer to blog - I’m speaking from experience here. Writing is something I enjoy doing, getting better at it is something I continue to do. If you have something to say then start blogging and your writing will improve over time.
You meet the best people in the world by blogging…
Where would you look to find a professional blogging job? At a big job board site that covers everything? Or at a job board just for blogging? Turns out the answer is a little of both. And I do mean little.
Why? Because after a pretty healthy search, I couldn’t find very many–only five. There were more that passed themselves off as blogger job boards or said they had blogging jobs, but for one reason or another, I felt that they weren’t accurately representing themselves. Some of them didn’t seem very…
Blogs need content: short snippets, articles, and longer feature articles. Here are five tips to improve your article-writing skills; within a few days, you’ll be writing content like a pro.
1. Outline before you start writing - a few points will do
Jot down a few points before you start writing.
Many articles follow this simple format: an introduction, a few points (around four, in an article of 500 words), and a conclusion.
Writing a short outline before you begin the article will help you to stick to the point.
Every article you write…
