Category Archives: Blogging

Tips and advice Nikki’s learned about blogging

DPCON12: How to turn your blog into a business

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It’s the morning after the day before. The Digital Parents Conference is over for another year. Like after all blogging conferences, I’ll be buzzing for weeks to come. I’ll have more on the blog next week about the key things I learned from the day but today I thought I’d share with you the key…

How’s your blogging time management?

styling you desk

I made a bit of a deal with myself at the start of the year that 2012 would be the year that I would get to bed at a reasonable hour. That I would get a bit of balance back in my bloggie life. Mmmmmm. The first quarter of the year is almost over. One…

My blog has a shiny new frock

It was not only my blog that got the makeover treatment ... I did too

HUZZAH! It’s not you. It’s me. I’ve changed. Styling You has a new frock. A lighter, more fun and playful type of “frock”. It was time. It’s almost two years ago since she changed outfits and in that time her content has changed SO much. Let me clarify … I haven’t changed WHAT I write about. No,…

Geek girl guide: what to take to a blogging conference

Blogging conference essentials

The countdown is well and truly on. Brenda, how many extra grey hairs have you got now? Yes, I’m talking the Digital Parents Conference – the conference that will bring together 150 parents who blog, plus about 50 others, representing brands and PRs who want to connect with parents who blog, for one day and…

Build your blog before you hope that they will come

Keep Calm and Blog On

I don’t work with brands. It’s a personal choice and I’m happy with it. It’s not because I have a deep-seated aversion to it. It’s not because I think that bloggers who do are not ‘authentic’ or ‘honest’ or whatevs. It just doesn’t work for me and my blog. I blog for different reasons. I…