Monthly Archives: June 2009
6 Things Bloggers Should Bring to Conferences
Blogging, Promote your blog This past weekend I was at WordCamp Dallas, where I was given the opportunity to both speak to and interact with a group of over 300 fellow WordPress users, bloggers and soon-to-be bloggers. It was a great event that was a unique combination of wonderful sponsors, great planning, spectacular speakers and great attendees. But if you are a blogger that is new to conferences, whether they are blogger-specific, technical or otherwise, there is a lot ...
Continue readingHow Dare You?
Writing Guess what? Writers are not perfect. You see proof of this fact every day if you read enough blogs, books, newspapers or magazines. The best writers in the world make mistakes, misspell words, use poor grammar at times and punctuate incorrectly. Why? Because writers are human and humans make mistakes. Sometimes humans make mistakes several times before they learn the lesson. Sometimes they never learn. All writers’ have their ...
Continue readingHow To Blog Without Killing Yourself
Blogging Tim Ferriss, author of the hugely popular book 4 Hour Work Week, posted one of his presentations today on his blog. In the presentation Tim talks about blogging best practices, community building, harnassing data for your blog and much more. The video is just over 50 minutes in length. As well as having lots of great tips, it’s also gives a great insight into how a successful blogger like Tim thinks and operates. I encourage you all to ...
Continue readingWinners Circle – Exclusive Internet Marketing Case Studies
Blogging News A few weeks ago I spoke about Gyutae Parks ebook release ‘The Winning Way – Ultimate Marketing Checklist‘. The ebook contained a huge amount of tips and ideas and is well worth downloading. Gyutae is moving onto bigger and better things with today being the launch of his new member site Winners Circle. Unlike other member sites which try and explain how you can build up a successful website from start, Winners Circle teaches ...
Continue readingDon’t Take Advantage of Celebrity Deaths on Twitter
Social Media Sadly, several celebrities have died in the past week. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Billy Mayes. Social media has nearly taken the Internet down, breaking news, sharing personal stories and spreading their own thoughts and feelings regarding these tragedies. So why would someone take advantage of the morbid trend by hacking into a celebrity Twitter account and reporting that they too have passed away? In light of the untimely ...
Continue readingSuffering Society
Blogging, Writing The children of the world aren’t the only ones suffering when it comes to grammar errors. Many people believe that the kids nowadays are just lazy and don’t really care. Some people say that it’s the parents’ fault for not making sure their children are getting top marks in their studies. There seems to be a whole generation of children who are terrible spellers and don’t understand the function of grammar. Could ...
Continue readingBacklinks Move A Blog Forward
Promote your blog Anyone who has ever gone to the trouble of setting up a blog knows that without some kind of internet advertising there’s little chance that the creation will get much exposure other than through the word of mouth that family and friends can supply. And let’s face the facts. Whether your new blog is about the all the great uses you know of for sunflower seeds or the latest software that you’re selling as an affiliate, a push is what’s ...
Continue readingTie All of Your Social Networks Together with Social Follow
Social Media Social Follow is a great tool that links all of your social networks together with one button. This is a great timesaver in that you don’t have to relist your social networks over and over again on your blogs and profiles; you can just display this simple button. Since “Social Following is the action of following someone through all of their social accounts” then it’s pretty obvious how they came up with the clever name. When you sign up ...
Continue readingFind Tweeters Near You With TweetMondo
Social Media If you’re looking for a new way to find Twitter users near your location you may want to try TweetMondo. Your results will all depend on the location you enter – whether it be a broad or precise location. Once you login with your Twitter username and password you can enter your location in the “Where are you?” box. You can also select a location from the “Tweetcloud” located at the bottom of the page. Once you enter your location ...
Continue readingIs It Time To Get Off Your Big Fat Blog?
Blogging It seems like just a few months ago I started writing for Blogging Tips. But maybe that’s because it’s true. With apologies to Lynrd Skynrd, I think Kevin might call me the breeze because I’m already blowing down the road, but in computer years, three months is a long time, right? Ah, but now, like Led Zeppelin, I’ve got to ramble on. But before we part I do have a few final thoughts I’d like to pass on that may help you with your blog ...
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