Thoughts about blogging

Thoughts about blogging

Last month I blogged almost every day and I chose to use the blog to share my knowledge and hope that readers found that useful. I’ve had a week or so ‘off’ and now I’m back on a slightly different tack. The next batch of blogs will be my...
Thoughts about blogging

Microblogging – what is it really all about?

The best known microblog is Twitter, but there are others such as identi.ca. and jaiku. If ‘blog’ is short for web log, then a microblog is a very short web log. Twitter launched itself based on asking people to answer the question ‘what are you...
Thoughts about blogging

Spreading the word

We’ve already talked about posting your blog content in more than one place, but there’s another way to get your words in front of a wider audience. This is about placing the link to your blog in as many places as possible. There are a couple of tools that...
Thoughts about blogging

Creating consistent blogs

Many people say to me ‘I won’t be able to keep coming up with good content for my blogs’, it’s a perpetual challenge! However, there are a few tricks to generating good content. The first one is to have a dedicated brainstorming session. Get a...
Thoughts about blogging

Making one blog go further!

When you’ve written a good blog and posted it on your own blog – is that it? As the daughter of a thrifty Yorkshirewoman, I know how to make a little go a long way so I use one blog for many things. This isn’t the only way to do this, but it is a...