Some time yesterday my blog breached 800,000 views! Thank you to all readers whether one-time or returning. I appreciate each & every one of you. Thanks so much.
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Tuesday, 22 April 2014
100K Views
My blog has just reached 100,000 viewings in slightly under two years.
Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed, be it as a reader, guest blogger, advisor, morale supporter, etc.
Many, many thanks.
Mi blog ha acabado de llegar a 100.000 visionados en poco menos de dos años.
Muchas gracias a todos los que han contribuido, ya sea como lector, blogger invitado, asesor, partidario de ánimo, etc
Muchas, muchas gracias.
Mein Blog hat gerade 100.000 Viewings erreicht in knapp zwei Jahren.
Vielen, vielen Dank an alle, die dazu beigetragen hat, sei es als Leser, Gast-Blogger, Berater, Unterstützer Moral usw.
Vielen, vielen Dank.
Mon blog vient d'atteindre 100 000 visionnements en un peu moins de deux ans.
Merci beaucoup à tous ceux qui ont contribué, que ce soit en tant que lecteur, blogueur invité, le conseiller, le moral partisan, etc
Merci, merci beaucoup.
%D
Saturday, 14 September 2013
BlogSummit: Part 4
"5 things to make your food blog better"
Emily Leary, amummytoo.co.uk & @amummytoo.
"The more you cook, the better you become…and the more creative your output"
Look for the community and get involved and that way one will pick up lots of tips and ideas.
Give credit and link to those whose recipes one uses. Ask first if one wants to reproduce a whole recipe.
Use props to give a more complete ambience for the dish.
Sort out the white-balance on photographs - remove the blue sheen. White needs to be white.
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"So you want to be a food blogger"
Helen Best-Shaw, fussfreeflavours.com, @fussfreehelen
Are you passionate?
Do you love food?
Do you think about food all the time?
Content: recipes; restaurant reviews; baking; cooking; etc.
Do you want to be niche? Vegan; gluten-free, etc.
Ensure recipes do actually work.
List the ingredients in the order they are to be added.
Never plagiarise!
No need to be intimidated by photography.
One can work with brands, but it can be boring both for oneself and one's readers. If one goes to an event then add a conclusion at the end including some comments about the event and its relation to the recipe being blogged about.
BlogSummit: Part 3
According to the agenda we are to expect:
"an inspiring session with Sarah McIntyre, who will talk about how she uses blogging to build a community, to keep creatively inspired and provide a platform for her very successful illustrated books."
As a big fan of children's literature I was sitting expectantly, eyes and ears totally zoned in. Sarah is an author and the illustrator of Morris the Mankiest Monster, You Can't Eat a Princess and her latest release, Oliver and the Seawigs. She is based in London at The Fleece Station. Her blog Jabberworks can be found here.
She uses illustrations to engage readers of her blog and help direct them to her commercial allies. For example using an internet neme.
If one sets oneself a challenge, it stimulates the creative juices. For example blogging hourly about what one is doing. Interacting day-to-day with another blogger. Suggest folk draw, write, photograph badly so that it takes the pressure off people from thinking things have to be perfect or not attempted at all. If one can create a sense of fun, folk will engage.
Mine old diaries for ideas. When abroad produce travelogues of details, sights and sounds. If attending an event, give it a simple blog title that readily relates; folk tend to look for articles that most match their search criteria.
Video can also attract folk as well as being something to stimulate one's own creativity. Sarah used iMovie.
Getting folk to vote on items can increase engagement with one's blog. Similarly step-by-step photographs of how one reached one's goal also is of interest to individual's as this can be a learning experience.
If one wishes to leave an impression, always dress to impress, as photos might be taken and appear online.
Link to one's other social media.
Acknowledge the input from readers.
If one must criticise, be constructive. Negative criticism could lead to an awkward situation in the future.
WoW, Sarah was so full of enthusiasm and overflowing with ideas and notions. %D
BlogSummit: Part 2
Ruth Arnold, @geekmummy, then came on to talk us through the most important elemants in blogging.
"Cool Geeky Stuff you can do with your Blog…
…that isn't as hard as you think it is"
There is a whole page on the blog giving supporting material on her blog.
Images: resize images to below 640 pixels as this makes downloading one's blog-page quicker for the user.
If one stores too many photos on blogger for example one can easily end up exceeding the free storage limit.
Watermark the images to protect copyright.
One can check whether one's content has been copied elsewhere.
Reblogging: try to be courteous and request permission prior to doing so; ensure if someone reblogs one's own page that they include the link back and can follow back one's own blog.
Blog-button's or blog-badges can be used on other folk's blogs to link back to one's own blog. There is a tutorial on TOTS100's site.
Back-up! It is possible to break your blog, data can corrupt or one's blog can be hacked. On Blogger for example one can press the "export" option to ensure there is a back-up copy for emergency use.
Analytics or statistics can be useful. For example what is one's most popular content. If one uses more than one analytics, one will get different results. The highest is always right!
Consider obtaining one's own domain name - find a friendly geek to assist one in setting up (initially only). If you are on blogger, do not purchase via Google as renewing can be difficult. Find others to recommend their favoured domain host.
BlogSummit: Part 1
Firstly we were welcomed most warmly by Sally to BlogSummit and then introduced to:
Elizabeth & Ruth from Volvo who are here as part of their blog-outreach; and,
Katy & Jen from Cow & Gate to launch their new fruit pouches.
"How to Deal with Criticism and Promote Your Book
(or, how to be a tosser* and still sell things)[*tosser in British English has several meanings around the multiple uses of toss; the implication here is 'masturbator' cum 'idiot']
Next up was hunky blogger (goodbyepertbreasts.com) & author, Ben Wakeling, @benwakeling, who advised us that he has not been a tosser since marrying despite being named "the highest tosser in the land"
He advises to write as if no-one is reading; simply scribe for oneself, express your own thoughts.
Whilst he appreciated the positive comments, he was stung by the very occasional negative strike. One needs to develop a thick skin if one does not already have such. There is no need to respond. Try to embrace criticism.
"It is okay to offend people." We have freedom of speech in the UK. It is NOT okay, however, to harass somebody. Folk like to be riled. Controversy stimulates. But debate requires that one believe in what one says so that one is able to justify the position in debate.
The amount of attention a post receives is not proportionate to the amount of effort put in to crafting it.
Blogging may eventually lead one to write a book. But on a blogger's funds, one probably does not have much of a budget to market an e-/book. So, one needs to have a very focused mind.
Write a marketing strategy.
Tweet sensibly.
Add the personal touch - such as including a hand-written note.
Find someone renowned to write a comment about it.
Send copies where they will make the most impact.
Blogging should not be a chore; it should be FUN! %D
Saturday, 13 October 2012
BlogCamp: Part Two
Did not catch the speaker's name, but she set out with some clear goals:
1 community
2 feedback & ideas
3 traffic
4 extending your influence beyond bloggers (on Facebook as opposed to Twitter)
5 secret societies
But very quickly I was lost in the expert bloggers' lingo, an impenetrable jargon full of references to alien beings or Latin plant names for all I knew.
Pee break & bland latte ensued.
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