How Blog Carnivals Boost Communities and Make Dreams Come True
Imagine that you could have what you write appear in a magazine. While that is a dream that many shares is it also one that few are able to fulfill. Now imagine being the managing editor and/or publisher of a magazine. Although probably a dream for less writers the more incredible nonetheless. In the Blogosphere there is a form for community events equivalent to magazines called Blog Carnivals. What makes them similar to a magazine is that they are dedicated to a particular topic or theme and that they are published on a regular schedule. Each edition is a special …
Blogging Relationships - a Virtual Interview With Liz Strauss & Lorelle
Having chosen Blogging Relationships as the topic was there little doubt who I would have participate namely Lorelle VanVossen and Liz Strauss. I cannot imagine you not knowing them already, but here is nonetheless a short introduction to each of them: Lorelle has been blogging since before blogging was even conceptualized, covering travel, nature and travel photography, web design, web theory and development as well as blogging and WordPress as they saw the light of day. Her main blog is Lorelle on WordPress, but she also writes on more other blogs including The Blog Herald. Lorelle is furthermore …
Daily Blog Tips’ Blog Project: Three - My Five Top Picks
Daily Blog Tips decided to kick start July in great style with a blog project called “Blog Project: Three” (complete entry list here). More than hundred blogs participated. No wonder when you not only have a chance to win money and raise your Technorati authority, but also gain a lot of new readers. As you can imagine was I mostly motivated by the latter as I wrote my contribution: What “The 3 Little Pigs” Can Teach You About Blogging. It took me several hours, but at least I think I came up with something, which is well worth …
Comments or No Comments That Is the Question - or Is It?
Apparently is there about once a year an omnipresent war on words going on about whether a blog that doesn’t allow comments is indeed a blog. As with most heated discussions is the interesting aspect not so much who is right or wrong, but what you can learn from it. The real substance lies in the middle so to speak. It is thus more interesting to look at why you would lean in one direction or the other as in which direction you are actually leaning. Matthew Ingram, one of the most prominent bloggers who was against calling a blog …
What “The 3 Little Pigs” Can Teach You About Blogging
You may think I am skating on even thinner ice than when I wrote The Albert Einstein Approach to Successful Blogging when saying that you can actually learn a great deal about blogging from reading fairy tales. Perhaps am I just obsessing, but I would claim that you indeed can learn something from practically everything you read regardless of the subject and the quality of writing as long as you read it with an open mind. If it is not on subject try transposing it and when it is of poor quality try to learn from the mistakes. If …
