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- Tomorrow’s Star Bloggers Talk About BloggingDecember 3 2008
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When a blogger becomes famous, everyone wants to get in touch with her, asking for interviews, sharing their post ideas, or just looking for a quick chat. But at that point, reaching out to her might already be too late. Unless the blogger tells you otherwise, there is nothing wrong with trying. Most of today’s stars are nice and friendly and love to be contacted - just a bit busy.
But there is an easier way to get to talk to hard core bloggers and learn from them: Look into the nearby future and say hi to the star bloggers of tomorrow. That is, bloggers who are doing a great job building their blogs today but aren’t yet overwhelmed with contact requests, email and other PR duties.
But who are the rising stars, then?
To make things easier for you, I did a quick study and collected a group of inspiring bloggers who are on their way to building something big. Here’s how the study was organized:
- I sent out an email message to some bloggers I concider elite citizens of the blogosphere and asked them to point out one to five rising stars who they think are still not too hip to stay in touch with regular people like you and me.
- Then, I went through their recommendations and picked a handful of interesting bloggers. I contacted them to see how they would respond and asked each of them two interview questions regarding their blogging.
- Finally, I asked each blogger interviewed if they wanted to point out a few
- Are You Blogging With Your Neighbours?August 19 2008
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The word out there is that the world wide web is making the world smaller, giving the voice back to the people, and making us all more tolerant, more understanding, more global. But is this really happening?
When we posted our “NxE’s Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers” list, we went through the blogosphere as we know it: the blogs we read, the blogs our friends read, the blogs we know people to be reading. But no matter how careful we were, we still missed a lot of blogs that others would consider influential. In a world where Technorati is tracking over 112.8 milllion blogs, I hardly find this surprising.
However, there is more to learn from this than just the simple fact that there are too many blogs for us to keep track of.
The blogosphere, just like the physical world we live in, is divided into neighbourhoods that have only limited interaction with each other. The online neighbourhoods might be divided differently than their physical counterparts, but apart from that they share similar characteristics. For example, in the blogging world, I belong to an English speaking neighbourhood interested in business, productivity, serious blogging, and personal development, although physically, I am located far in the north, in the European country
- NxE’s Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ BloggersJuly 10 2008
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As it is often the case with technology, blogging can seem like a boys’ club to many, but this is obviously no longer the case.
As it is often the case with technology, blogging can seem like a boys’ club to many, but the average blogger is no longer (if they ever were) a geeky, twenty-something man from the US. Strong, interesting women are taking over the blogging world. They have the passion, they have the skills, and they are here to stay. Today, we’re listing fifty most influential female bloggers at the moment.
If you want to know who the blogging world is talking about, these are the names and faces to keep in mind.
No. 50Shelley PowersBurningbird - burningbird.net
Burningbird’s Real Tech - realtech.burningbird.net30 Second Rundown:
Powers is an author, web developer, and technology architect who works with, and writes about open source technologies and the semantic web.
Why She Matters:
She is an outspoken proponent for women in technology, an advocate for increased involvement and
- The Blog-Myth Revisited: Why You Need a Blogging SystemMay 15 2008
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When you start a new blog, putting out a new post every day doesn’t feel like a lot. But how long can you keep it up? The initial passion keeps you going for a while, and after that you keep moving because of your strong commitment. But you are glued to your blog, and your blog is glued to you. Your blog will suffer from every life event that takes up your time (sickness, family matters, work), and your life will suffer from the fact that you can’t get away and leave your blog without risking its success.
As the best-selling book, The E-Myth Revisited, puts it: you have created yourself a job, not a business. You are working in your business, not on it.
Or in blogging terms: you are working in your blog, not on it.
You Need a System
If you are like most serious bloggers, you have made a sacred promise to write something consistently to keep your blog going. Maybe you even post in advance to cover for the short breaks, but still your blog is tied to your personal ability to deliver what you promise.
Your blog’s growth is tied to your ability to grow it.
This might not necessarily be a problem, but if you want to see your blog take off and grow into something bigger than you have ever dared to dream of, or if you want it to outli
- How to Take a Break Without Breaking Your BlogMay 5 2008
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It’s again the time of year when people start planning their vacations. But not everyone: most bloggers can’t even dream of taking a break. In many ways, bloggers are like entrepreneurs, and the most serious ones actually consider their blogs as businesses. And unfortunately, most entrepreneurs have one tricky problem: they don’t know how to take a break and relax.
Why relax?
Photo by Rick HarrisSure, blogging is your passion. If it wasn’t, you wouldn’t be doing it. But quite often, getting some distance to the thing you do from day to day will help you improve.
When you are relaxing and don’t have to keep pushing out content to your blogs, your mind does its own work, looking at your business from a distance. It starts to see things that you could improve, it notices your strengths and weaknesses.
And most importantly, the time away refuels your passion. After a few week’s break you are filled with new energy to pursue your goals with new determination and power.
