If you’re a new arrival here, welcome! If you’ve dropped by again as a regular … great to have you once more. Either way, you’ll know I’m doing the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge to revive my often flagging blogging skills/routine. Can I ask a quick favour of you … related to yesterday’s
Continue reading ...Back to 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge – Day 4 and we’re looking to observe a blog in our niche area and to do a compare and contrast with our own. The parameters of this task are wide and the participants can focus on as many aspects of blogging as we care to:
Continue reading ...Image by luc legay via Flickr I admit it – I’m now very close to being a social-media junkie. I am intrigued by the potential of this wondrous web thing. Indeed I spend a lot of my life online these days. I’m also curious by nature and reasonably sociable, love a chat – you know?
Continue reading ...Image via Wikipedia Yes it’s that time again, and it couldn’t have come at a better one for me. It’s Building a Better Blog month organised by Darren Rowse, ol’ Problogger hisself! I did one of these 2 years ago and it was worth the effort. I’ll keep telling myself that as those 31 days
Continue reading ...Image: Thanks Stephen Downes Last August, and along with a smallish but hardy group of bloggers, I took the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge, led by the energetic and insightful Michele Martin of the Bamboo Project. As I’ve written elsewhere, this was a seminal event in my development as a blogger. (Use the
Continue reading ...Now that I am a fully-fledged member (survivor) of the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge team, I am ready to build a blog based on what I have learned since August 1. I thought that this could be a good personal challenge for me. The last few blogs I’ve built were from the
Continue reading ...It’s been a pressure-cooked month for everyone taking the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge but it’s been worth it. One of the best spin-offs has been the support given by others on the road with me … that and learning tips, tricks, and many of the skills of the fine art of blogging.
Continue reading ...Well lots, as a matter of fact. Being part of the 31-Day challenge is not quite over yet, but we’re in to the reflective part of the process which is going to take me more than 24 hours to complete. Do a SWOT Analysis is the order from sensei Problogger today. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and
Continue reading ...They are not called social media for nothing. There are dozens, maybe even hundreds of these sites designed to bring people together for fun, profit, procrastination, support, catchups, and now I discover, to drive your blog traffic! Aha. I felt overwhelmed when I saw Problogger’s list of possible sites to explore as Task 30: Explore
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Hello, my name is Dramagirl, and I’m a webaholic …
Several of my latest posts here have focused on the flood of social networking sites I’ve been attracted to during the past few months. In fact, an entire theme has developed with these often apologetic posts. I’ve been a bit whiny really, using the sad excuse that such play aka experimentation is all grist to
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