Archive for Blogging
Blogging for Kindle authors
I still do what I do for bloggers and everyone interested in the world of social media, beit Twitter or podcasts. I have, however, been focussing my own blogging energy on my blog for Kindle authors. Demonstrating thought leadership as published author used to be an expensive process if you were self-publishing. It isn’t the [...]
How to get newspapers and magazines on your Kindle for free
New ebook shows you how to subscribe on your Kindle for free to newspapers, magazines and blogs.
Dealing with spam on my blogs
I’ve used the Akismet plugin for WordPress blogs (all my blogs are WordPress) for longer than I can remember. I’m pretty certain I’ve never said thank you, however. Today I noticed that my blog for Kindle authors had three times as many comments as were actually published. I don’t often look in the spam section [...]
Blog for Kindle authors
Learning to write for the Kindle has been, as we say in communications, a journey. Theoretically you can just submit your book as a Word document to the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) but then you can also photocopy your manuscript, stick a staple in the corner and call it published. Getting the best format [...]
Blogging for Business 14 October at the Sydney Writers Centre
My course on Blogging for Business is running again at the Sydney Writers Centre on 14 October. I’ve run the course five times now and I’m thrilled that the feedback has always been great. If you, or someone you know, has been thinking about starting a blog for their business, this is a great place [...]
The maths of blogging
Next week I’m talking at Mosman Library on Inspiration, content and connection with others – a non-technical guide to getting the most from your blog and it occurred to me I hadn’t tended my own blog for a while, which wasn’t going to look good. The fact is, however, I’m plenty inspired at the moment and [...]
Be useful
Tomorrow I teach my class on blogging for business at the Sydney Writers’ Centre again. One of the things I hope every attendee leaves with is the firm belief that their blog has a higher chance of success if it is useful. To be useful, your blog has to give readers something they need. That [...]
No blog for you!
Can a corporate blog can ever be interesting given the difficulty in getting opinion expressed in the name of the company approved for publication. Opinion is the spice of choice in good blogs but what passes for opinion in the corporate blogosphere is generally neutered by more caveats than a Liz Taylor pre-nup.
Is your blog a well-kept secret?
A new blogger told me he was rethinking blogging because he had only one comment on his most recent post (one of only three posts over six months). His is an internal blog, he’d polled his underlings and none had read the post. As a consequence, he is looking for a new communications medium. How [...]