Category Archives: Community Building

Blogging Benefits – Diversifying

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: November 15, 2008

My lack of regular posting recently has not been due to any lack of motivation or ideas, rather a lack of time. Part of the reason for this is a consequence of blogging itself which has led on to other activities. Even the social networking aspects have had to take a back seat lately. I concentrate on Stumbleupon as a voting site, diigo for my bookmarking and belong to a few active Ning groups and forums. Digg has taken the back seat. I never really did enjoy using it so never put in the time necessary to make it work [...] Continue Reading…

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Blogger Appreciation Day

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: April 14, 2008

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has declared today an unofficial Blogger Appreciation Day with the aim of spreading acts of random kindness and encouragement amongst bloggers. Darren was prompted to start this initiative because of messages he had received from bloggers who were feeling disheartened. I often talk of social networking and its value in bringing us visitors, backlinks and increasing our rankings. Certainly an increase in subscriber count, visitor numbers or pagerank can be encouraging and a boost to the ego but I can get that from the static websites I build. The beauty of blogging for me is being [...] Continue Reading…

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Blog For Readers not Google

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: January 20, 2008

“Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.”- Richard Bach While I was sitting on a page rank of 0, until the recent Google updates, I started changing tack in my attitude towards PR, deciding that I wanted to be able to run this blog with less of the restrictions this was placing on me. . You may have noticed that I have been writing more posts with links to other sites; far more than are coming my way. The SEO gurus would probably shake their heads at this. I get a pagerank of [...] Continue Reading…

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Blogging opens up the world if we open our eyes and look

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: December 29, 2007

Reading the condolence messages for Benazir Bhutto led me to search further for information that would fill in the glaring gaps in my knowledge on current day Pakistan. Reading newspapers gives me some (hopefully) factual information but this does not tell me how people live, feel and think in countries where the overall culture is different to mine. My natural reaction, since starting blogging myself, is to search for blogs that will give me this sort of insight. I started writing this with a heavy heart, having read posts by people trying to go about ordinary daily life in countries [...] Continue Reading…

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Community Building News

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: December 15, 2007

I am always really interested in reading of blogs that are running activities aimed at building blogging communities, giving new bloggers some exposure or generally helping out other bloggers. Here are a few that I have read about this week: Snoskred is asking for guest posts from bloggers who want to Get out of their Niche and write posts on any topic they like. I sometimes think it would be good to write about matters other than blogging and wonder about starting a more personal sort of blog. Then I see sense, knowing that I am busy enough as it [...] Continue Reading…

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Blogging Christmas

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: December 3, 2007

Interested in discovering the impact of the upcoming festive season on the blogging world, I jumped on my sleigh and did a quick circumvent of the blogging world to find that the Christmas spirit is indeed coming alive. Blogs are decking their themes with Christmas images and posts, new ones are popping up dedicated to the event and Christmas memes abound. My search was delayed a while when I became engrossed in the preparations going on at the North Pole on Santa Claus Blog Imaginif is running a competition with an important theme Christmas Competition: Child Safety Tips. Prize money [...] Continue Reading…

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Blogspot Blogger comment form change unfair to ALL bloggers

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: December 2, 2007

Have you noticed that Blogger has changed its comment form so that you have to either sign in with a gmail address or as anonymous? If the blog owner does not allow anonymous comments you cannot comment at all; unless you have a gmail address. A link to a gmail address not attached to a Blogger account leads to a ‘Profile Not Found’ page with the message “The Blogger Profile you requested cannot be displayed. Many Blogger users have not yet elected to publicly share their Profile“. This mistakenly assumes that all those who comment are bloggers themselves! More significantly [...] Continue Reading…

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Non-blogging blog readers

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: November 7, 2007

While I was writing a recent post it occurred to me that although the content was not specific to other bloggers, references in it made it appear that it was. I am now going to try to be much more aware that not all my blog readers are bloggers themselves, although, because of my subject area, the majority are. We often acknowledge and thank other bloggers by creating links to their blogs, adding them to blogrolls, subscribing to their community pages…. You can give your non-blogging readers some recognition from time to time too.. You could for example include something [...] Continue Reading…

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