The subject of live blogging has come up for me three times in the last 24 hours so I thought it might make a good reader discussions.“How would you go about live blogging at a conference?”That was the question I was just asked - how would you do it? What tools would you use? What [...]

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Click to play play_blip_movie_1247836(); In this video post I reflect upon the one of the downsides of changing your blog’s brand and/or design.While updating blog design, logos and avatars in social media sites can bring a lot of life to a blog and present you with an up to date [...]

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If you’re in the market for a Macbook Air - I’m running a little auction at the moment here on ProBlogger to sell one that I recently won. Full details on the process and machine are here.Share This

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Much is written about how to ‘design blogs’ (as a whole) but another element of ‘blog design’ that I think is just as important, yet not written about much, is the design of individual blog posts.How blog posts ‘look’ is so important. I’ve seen the power of ‘polishing’ posts time and time again.Image by Darwin [...]

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Over the weekend I asked readers how they suggest Live Blogging an Event. The resulting comments were really helpful so I thought I’d collect some of them together into a post on the topic here.Travis Prinzi suggests that you use the opportunity to promote your Twitter or Plurk account by using those social media accounts [...]

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Yesterday I announced on Digital Photography School that I was planning on running a short Photowalk while I was Las Vegas for Blog World Expo (you’re welcome to join in). The post was to gauge if any of my readers would be interested in coming along.To this point over 40 people have responded - almost [...]

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This week I’d like to run a ‘reader review’ competition here on ProBlogger. Chitika kindly emailed me last week to ask if I’d be interested in doing a giveaway with them and so instead of just running a ‘comment to enter’ competition we thought we’d do something that gave everyone a chance to win a [...]

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Have you ever had one of those days where you set aside time to blog and while you spend the whole time that you put aside busily doing ’stuff’ - you don’t end up actually writing anything?I had one of those days this last week. After what felt like a busy day of ‘work’ I [...]

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OK - that heading sounds like a bad joke (and it could be) but I had confirmation this week that Jeremy from ShoeMoney is joining our ‘make money online with a blog‘ panel at Blog World Expo.This makes the lineup - Brian Clark from CopyBlogger, John Chow, Zac Johnson, Jim Kukral, ShoeMoney and myself. It’s [...]

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Today I’m excited to announce that my co-author of ProBlogger the Book, Chris Garrett, has just pre-launched a new training course for bloggers Authority Blogger.This is not a ‘how to blog’ course - instead it is a course for people wanting to learn how to use a blog as a way for growing their profile, [...]

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