Blogging Tips for Beginners:Spinning Your Web
Web 2.0 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! There would be no WWW without links. Links make the web, one page to another, one idea to another, one person to another. There should be no blog post without links. Not only do links take your readers to more information about a topic, they provide breadcrumb trails for readers at those other sites to find you. In the blogger world they call this trail a trackback. I know, we all groan and roll our eyes over terms, but this one actually means what it says — it provides a track for readers to follow back to your blog from the one you…
Blogging for Beginners: What Slice of the Pie Do You Want?
So you’ve decided to start blogging and — as I suggested last week — you downloaded and installed a copy of Flock. Now what? Well before we start playing with the new toy we have a decision to make. It’s the most important decision you make as a blogger. What slice of the pie do you want? If you look at any popular blog site you know which slice of the audience pie they are after, which theme their blog posts revolve around. Pick any of your favorite blogs and see if I’m not right. Let me pick one for you — Over at the Otherworld Diner they deliver their…
Blogging Tips for Beginners: A Web Browser for Busy Authors #writetip
Flock Browser – Flock Art To be an author is to be a blogger. Not all writers are as enthusiastic about that new aspect of our profession as I am. I love geek stuff. I love playing with new ways to express myself, and I really love the possibilities blogging can bring to stories. So why isn’t every writer enthusiastic about blogging? I think the biggest barrier is a technological hurdle. So, that’s the blogging issue I’m going to address first. You need more than a web browser to get this job done right. If you are trying to muddle along with Internet Explorer or Firefox, with no enhancements for…