Blogging tips
Have you put a value on your blog’s brand?
By on 18 February 12There are just 40 days until the Digital Parents Conference. As I was skyping this week with Maria Tedeschi, the session coordinator*, I cast my mind back to 12 months ago. And specifically what the Australian blogging landscape looked like then and what it looks like now. And I thought, WOW. So much has happened [...]
Your blog and your iPad
By on 11 February 12I love my iPad. I really do. Cannot imagine my life without it. Oh, ok, you got me. Yes, I could imagine my life without it. It would be devastating. Not in a someone’s-been-harmed-kind-of-way, more in a boy-you-make-my-life-easier-and-boy-I’d-really-be-stuck-doing-this-blogging-thing-kind-of-way. See, about 12 months ago, I ditched the laptop (actually it’s still in the house and used [...]
What if you logged on one night and your blog just wasn’t there?
By on 04 February 12The title of this post is designed to alert, not alarm you. On Tuesday night I went to bed with my iPad, as I do every night. Opened up my blog reader app and started catching up on the blogs I follow every day. I clicked through to this post on Crashing Red and promptly sent [...]
Why blog conferences are good for your blogging soul
By on 21 January 12This time last year I had never attended a blogging conference. I’d been to a blogging event where I met some bloggers IRL but never to a programmed day where other bloggers gathered to hear other bloggers talk about blogging. Before attending Aussie Bloggers Conference in March 2011 (this has now morphed into the Digital [...]
Sh*t Oz Bloggers Say
By on 17 January 12Bloggers are strange beasts. In the wild, we’re often spotted surgically attached to our iPhones and we have the ability to Tweet AND carry on a conversation with multiple other Tweeting bloggers. And most probably drink a glass of wine at the same time. We tumble, stumble and pin … and most of us don’t [...]
What’s your blog looking like for 2012?
By on 14 January 12A year ago things were much, much different around here. Blogging was something I just did on the side. Of my other stuff. I’ve learned a lot about blogging, About the blogging community and its myriad of niches. While in my my clearly delusional dreams I’d love to call myself a fashion blogger but the [...]
Guest post: How to keep your blog banging when you need a break
By on 17 December 11Do you need a blogging break? Much as I love blogging we all need to put our hands in the air and step away from the computer at times. Yes, and the mobile phone, the iPad or whatever other gadgets you may have become over-attached to. I’m not suggesting you stop blogging forever, don’t do [...]
Guest post: What type of blogger are you?
By on 10 December 11If you’re a blogger, then you are a writer and as a writer, you want your words to be read right? Which leads to the most vexing question in the world of blogging: How do I find readers for my blog? Naturally, there is no short answer to this question but I am going to [...]
501 reasons why Instagram has captured my social media heart
By on 08 December 11I was posting a new photo to Instagram today and I realised it was number 501. Wow. That’s a lot of photos of shoes, bags, food, tea, my hair, my nails … yes, you name it, I’ve Instagram-ed it. At first I was seduced by the way you could turn a pretty dodgy iPhone photo [...]
Six easy steps to becoming an expert blogger
By on 03 December 11When I talk to businesses about blogging and social media and how it can work for them to boost their bottom line, I remind these business owners that five years ago their only guaranteed option for getting their message out there was via paid advertising. Paid advertising is still necessary for most businesses but these [...]
