Showcasing Australia's Blogging Mums and Dads
Valerie Khoo, guru of all things writing, held a webinar a few months ago for the Digital Parents community aptly titled 7 Rules to Kick Ass Writing. Here is the link to the webinar but below I’ve just summarised the basics. KNOW YOUR READER Age Gender Income – Socio economic status PLAN YOUR WRITING… [Continue Reading]
What your value proposition actually is? Why do we need to know our value proposition? Simply it will help you stay on track and focussed in the direction you want your blog to take. It is important to know your value proposition is know what makes you special, unique and stand out from other bloggers…. [Continue Reading]
Valerie Khoo is a freelance writer, blogger, and founder of the Sydney Writer’s Centre and all round guru when it comes to the written word. Many of you, myself included, have completed writing courses with Valerie and know that this woman is just a well of information. Kristyn interviewed Valerie last year and asked her… [Continue Reading]
Morning Twitter! What’s happening? I’m off to do the school run in my trackies. That’s ok right? Question: do you know how to find your hidden posts? Why doesn’t everyone show up in my newsfeed? Grrr Balsamic-glazed chicken with creamy mash and char-grilled asparagus. Nom nom nom. Ugh. Headache again. Too much chocolate. Possibly red… [Continue Reading]
NO, your friend hasn’t dropped off the face of the earth. They’ve just dropped off Facebook. More and more people are deciding 2012 is the year to ditch social media and get a social life. It comes as no surprise really – with trolls, public feuding and the bad grammar and banality that make up… [Continue Reading]
Part of this transcript was from the live chat and some of the information was sourced from Penny’s blog post http://sshhmummysonthephone.blogspot.com/2011/11/art-of-managing-your-social-media-time.html Point 1: To Do Lists / Scheduling Treat your social media like any other work or household task and schedule it in to your day Put it on a To Do list and allocate… [Continue Reading]
OK, so how did I get sponsorship? I went to a workshop last year and met Eden Riley for the first time. We bonded very quickly and she told me about her experiences at Blog Her. I looked over and saw a tall pretty lady looking lost so I went over and said “Hi”. She… [Continue Reading]
I’m going to take you through six easy steps to becoming an expert blogger. When I talk to businesses about blogging and social media and how it can work for them to boost their bottom line, I remind these business owners that five years ago their only guaranteed option for getting their message out there… [Continue Reading]
Be it for Blogger or WordPress, there are a couple of things that bloggers need to know when choosing a designer for their blogs. A lot of bloggers don’t have the time or the skills to tweak their own blog, thus the need for designers. When choosing a designer, here are a couple of things… [Continue Reading]
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is something that many mummy bloggers might be aware of but aren’t entirely sure what it includes. Or perhaps you know what SEO is but just aren’t sure how to improve your own rankings. In simple terms, SEO is a way of improving your natural rankings or organic visibility search results. … [Continue Reading]
When you first begin blogging, the Internet suddenly becomes a huge place – there is so much to read, to see, to link up to and join into. After a short while blogging, most of us become comfortable giving and receiving comments, and joining up to various memes as a way to get our blogs… [Continue Reading]
