In this post Liz from Pocket Cultures shares 5 tips on how to develop a blog that is friendly to those from around the world. First of all, why do you want to blog for a global audience? Well, the world is getting more connected, and people in more and more countries are becoming active online. Pock...

So I’ve been blogging for a little bit now. Here’s some of my favorite tips, in the order that I thought of them: If you don’t love it. Don’t do it. Or quit now and save yourself the trouble. Go outside your comfort zone once in a while. Put up some visuals or a video post. Go way off topic....

I was recently chatting to Sahar from Fat Fighter TV about blogging and asked if she could come up with some ways for us bloggers (read that as ME) to keep fit. Sahar went beyond what I expected and came back with 10 exercises for us to do WHILE STILL BLOGGING! As bloggers, we tend to do a lot of si...

People are really a lot like sheep.  Not in a necessarily bad way, like they really are like sheep.  But they do prefer to travel in herds.  That fact is pretty well represented throughout history.  If you prefer a modern reference, I give you the millions of members of social sites. Herds follo...

In October of 2008, I started a series called “Exploring Social Media” on the Blog Herald. The challenge was to dig into the myriad choices and options to dance the social dance online, to network, share, inform, and educate with the various tools available. I began by asking people to d...

Today we continue to look at ways that blogs which have got past the launch phase can take their blogs to the next level. In this post we look at something that I touched upon two posts back when we looked at building community on your blog - expanding the connecting points that readers can make wit...

Another challenge that faces a lot of bloggers who’ve reached a point of getting their blog past the ‘launch phase’ and where they have regular readers is forming those readers into a ‘community’. What I noticed in the growth of my photography site was that in the first...

Many new blogs pop up almost every single day. Some are good and some just a train wreck. I think many people that launch a blog are under the impression that once you launch you write some posts and your famous! It really doesn’t work that way. We do see some really great blogs with quality work ...

Guest post by Mark Spicer A couple days ago, a fellow blogger confided in me. She was wondering why she wasn’t getting much traffic. She felt like she was doing everything right. She wrote consistently. She promoted her blog through guest posts and connected with other bloggers. I asked her ho...

I'm going to continue with my blogging tips to help anyone in need. My usual disclaimer applies. These are by no means rules or regulations. There's no way you can regulate a creative process like blogging. To make this point clearer; In photography, there's a common rule called rule of Thirds. Wher...