Blogging Tips

Leveraging Your Twitter Account to Achieve Fame and Fortune?

Leveraging your Twitter stream can be archived in a number of ways, but avoiding the negative connotation of being spammy or being labeled as a gimmick can be the tricky thing. Some tweet for a cause in order to ensure that their online actions aren’t perceived in bad light. The upside? You’re actually tweeting for a good cause. Now isn’t that a win-win?

It’s a lesson driven home by Franny Syufy over at About.com. She notes the current Twitter trend that Sockington started, which was little more than a curious return to the cat-blogging phenomenon that Twitter once was. Drilling down to the origin of Sockington’s fame or the purpose behind Sockington’s website is even more of a curiosity, as we can all scratch our heads and wonder at the necessity and purpose of Sockington at all.

Written by Kristen Nicole from Kristen Nicole
Posted on July 1st, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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6 Things Bloggers Should Bring to Conferences

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 to remember. Blogging, for the most part, is a solo activity and if your job doesn’t sent you to a lot of conferences there may well be a lot that you forget or don’t think to bring.

Since conference season is under way and many bloggers may be treking out to their first convention, here are a few things that you should remember before you get in the car.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on June 30th, 2009 and filed under Blogging, Promote your blog
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How To Blog Without Killing Yourself

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 …

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on June 29th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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Suffering Society

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 cell …

Written by Patricia Vennes from
Posted on June 29th, 2009 and filed under Blogging, Writing
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Is It Time To Get Off Your Big Fat Blog?

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 …

Written by Debbie Harbeson from Debbie Harbeson
Posted on June 26th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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Is Tagging Still Important for Blog Posts?

When tagging was first made popular for bloggers several years ago, it was pushed to the forefront by Technorati as a means of helping searchers find your content.

The idea was that searchers, instead of or in addition to using the regular text search, would prefer a tag search or that blog posts with appropriate tags would have a higher ranking. The reason being, keywords often show up in posts only partially related to the topic, but if a blogger intentionally tags a post, it is a much more clear indication of what the post is about.

But then some bloggers began to abuse tags. Some engaged in tag stuffing, inserting every single possibly related tag into the tag field. Others outright tried to game the system by adding popular tags that were unrelated to the actual post. As a result of this, tag search seems to have largely fallen out of favor. Doing a tag search on Technorati today involves specifically filtering your result.

However, at the same time, tagging has gained broader acceptance among bloggers. WordPress 2.3, released in fall of 2007, was the first to natively support tagging (prior to then WordPress users had to either handcode tags or use plugins) and more bloggers than ever tag their content.

But is it really worthwhile? It is a tough question to answer.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on June 25th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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Sentence Structure and Coordination

I recently covered, The Four Types of Sentences and Their Purpose. Today I’d like to cover a few more areas of structure; varying the beginning of sentences and faulty coordination.

To keep your writing from becoming stale or monotonous, you want to vary how you begin a sentence. Sentences don’t always need to begin with the subject.

Adverb: Probably the most well known horse to live was Black Beauty.

Adjective: Black as night, Black …

Written by Patti Stafford from Patti Stafford
Posted on June 25th, 2009 and filed under Blogging
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