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Mar | 28 | 2008

What is Needed for a Good Blogging Experience

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Opinion, Editorials Blogging needs commitment of both time and energy. The look and the functions of your site must be well-maintained as well as the content of your posts. Also you need these factors for a good blogging experience, so you'll be like the Energizer bunny...it keeps, going and going and going... Let's say you want to be the "Energizer Blog Bunny" you want to keep blogging, and blogging and blogging... Ingredients for Good Blogging Experience (GBE) Finding the Right Focus Finding the Right Focus or your groove or your jam - a very, very part in a good blogging experience writing because it ...

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Mar | 27 | 2008

Blogging IS Writing

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Terminology, Submissions, Tips, Writing, Opinion Blogging is often taken as informal writing. While this may be true, it does not mean that it is okay for a blogger to disregard writing rules. It’s bad enough that Internet sources are not considered as scholarly, and it’s worse that there are sites that prove it right – because of poorly written articles. As a blogger, you should remember that you do have some responsibility on what you publish online and this is not only about content. If you want to keep a good blogging reputation, better start with the technicalities of writing. When writing your posts, it ...

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Mar | 26 | 2008

The Game Plan of Blogging

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing Admit it: some of your posts are written on a whim. An idea struck you and you completely itched to write about it. That’s actually good because its spontaneity is closely linked to creativity. However, posts-on-a-whim hardly ever work for serious bloggers. For all you know (and you have to admit!), not all your spontaneous posts are that creative and worth reading. You may just be posting content that’s a product of “thinking aloud” that not everyone would be interested in. If you want to keep a good traffic and earn yourself loyal readers, you must have good content all the ...

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Mar | 25 | 2008

Conventionality is the Disease… Creativity is the Cure

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing Don’t you sometimes find yourself feeling too stuck in a rut? Perhaps, on some mornings now, you feel not looking forward to the day ahead of you. You feel monotonous. The feeling of monotony, believe it or not, affects your blogging. You may not know it but you are getting saturated with your daily routine. This poses a threat to your writing because following a predetermined schedule limits the horizons of your thinking. You encounter the same things everyday and you accept them, absorbing everything like a sponge as you get used to them. Every idea / action comes to ...

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Mar | 25 | 2008

Blogging and Communication

Posted by Jaren as Tips, Opinion, Editorials Blogging is both an endeavor of creativity and communication. Communication as we know it, can be defined in a very broad sense involves not only written (blogs) and oral speech (podcasts), but also music, the pictorial arts, audio-video, and in fact all human behavior, and yes it can even be relating our point of view on a certain thing, an idea or our wants. That's why blogs are so important and is so popular these days is that it gives people an outlet of their emotions and thoughts. Yes, some are better at communicating to their ideas to others, will ...

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Mar | 24 | 2008

No Blog is an Island

Posted by Jaren as Linking, Tips, Writing Yes it's true, No blog is an island link,link,link people it's the best way. But when Linking you have to do it the right way. Just like what Guru taught us on Smart Link Practices. Now, that's a start also we can start expanding our blog empire or our blog circle of friends by Making a linkable content, Being linkable has it perks, as this will improve your incoming links and link popularity by writing “hot” topics, controversial topics, great news. also apart from making linkable content is Looking for Relevant articles and linking to them. Linking is ...

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Mar | 24 | 2008

What it Takes to be a Passionate Blogger

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Writing, Opinion Do you have what it Takes to be a Passionate blogger? Jimmy's post woke me up... on his post he asked these questions... that made me think... How passionate are you about writing for your blogs? Do you wait with anticipation for the time when you have to write your next post? Do you smile like an idiot when you are doing something else and you think of something to write in your blog? Or do you merely go about it like every other mundane task in your life? Does it take you forever to find that breath of inspiration? I love blogging, ...

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Feb | 27 | 2008

Blogging, Blogging and more Blogging

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorials News, Writing, Editorials Procrastination is a common problem of all people, in particular, bloggers. Sometimes, we get lost in our research and end up surfing the net for things that are totally unrelated to what we’re supposed to write about. Other times, we just put off writing altogether. I have been hiding on my apartment for about a week now. You want to know why? Because I'm cramming to meet my blog deadlines, and it's all my fault because I have been procrastinating, slacking, bumming and whatever you would like to call it. And now I've learned my lesson. I will NOT PROCRASTINATE any ...

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Feb | 26 | 2008

Writing your Most Popular Post – and Keeping at It

Posted by Jaren as Blog Tutorial, Tips, Writing, Opinion For most of the time, blogging is a hobby, a past time that allows release of thoughts and feelings. Blogging is, for the most part, an outlet. You post and post, not really caring if you’d have new subscribers, new visitors, new comments, and the like. But such are most welcome, of course, and it makes you happy. However, you notice that on random days, you have more visitors / comments than usual. Does it mean that those random days have your best posts? Try looking at those posts that gained more / new viewers and look at how comments were ...

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Feb | 26 | 2008

A Friend In Need

Posted by Jaren as Blogging News, Blog Reviews I'm helping out my friends from the UA&P - IShareHappiness Blog Team. Whenever you feel pessimistic, angry, troubled, frustrated, and depressed – what have you – you need someone to talk to. Someone who could help you be more optimistic and help make you feel that there is hope. Sometimes it’s hard to talk to someone you know. We know of a trustworthy and empathetic person who can help you readers out there. IShareHappiness is there to help you. So come Visit the Site... And Share the Happiness. IShareHappiness is having a contest and will be giving away an IPOD TOUCH... WIN ...

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