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The All Women Blogging Carnival

This is my 2nd week participating in the All Women Blogging Carnival. This weeks host is at jaycee.typepad.com/semantics. I didn’t quite get myself organised for Monday, but Tuesday’s not that bad. I submitted my post on RSS that I wrote this week. The Carnival was started in June of this year and is for any women [...]

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Finding Blogging Inspiration From Others – Part 2

The second blog that really helped me and spurred me on is Entrepreneurs Journey by Yaro Starak, who is another Australian blogger like Darren. His blog is about Internet Business and Blogging and he covers these topics in great detail drawing from his own experiences running Internet Businesses. He is also the Blog Traffic [...]

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Finding Blogging Inspiration From Others

As I said in a previous post – blogging timeline part 2, there are 2 blogs that helped me tremendously when I was really stuck, and didn’t know which way to turn to find help. I was looking for direction, and good blogging information on how to get started decently in the blogging world. Knowing [...]

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I’m a Blog Carnival Newbie!

I’ve taken part in my first Blog Carnival. While looking for information on Blog Carnivals the other day I came across one that I wanted to try. The All Women Blogging Carnival is for women bloggers (obviously) everywhere regardless of what they blog about. It happens weekly on a Monday and each week there is a [...]

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What is a Blog Carnival?

Good question. I have been reading more and more about blog carnivals and how good they are, so I thought it was time I found out what they are all about. Basically a blog carnival is a collection of blog posts from all over the blogsphere, that have something in common with each other. So all [...]

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Do You Join In The Blogsphere?

Joining in the Blogging Community or Blogsphere is very important to a blogger. Making useful comments when you enjoy a post, making friends or just reading blogs that you like. It’s good to ‘get your face out there’ it could even help with links to your blog from other bloggers and therefore help your traffic. [...]

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What Is RSS And How Does It Work?

I had no idea what a feed or RSS was a couple of months ago, but you can learn quick. I’m not going to try and explain the technical side to RSS here, I think this entry in Wikipedia puts it better than I ever could. In this article I refer to blogs, but there [...]

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Why I Blog – The Reasons.

So why did I start blogging, what was my vision and has it changed? Now I could answer that question with an array of answers that would sound good, the love of writing, wanting to reach people etc…but I want to take the honest route. Here are some of my reasons for blogging (in no particular [...]

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My Blogging Timeline – The Journey so Far…Part 2

Following on from yesterdays post – part 1… There were 2 blogs that I found that helped me more than the rest (and still do), and first introduced me to structuring blogs from a business point of view, planning them and promoting them using business and marketing techniques. They are Problogger.net by Darren Rowse and Entrepreneurs-journey.com [...]

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My Blogging Timeline – The Journey so Far…Part 1

I thought I would write these articles (part 1 & 2) to show how I’ve got to this point, with this blog – Build a Blog. I don’t want to completely bore you with the details, but I will cover the information that helped me make my decisions, and effected the direction my blogs took. I [...]

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