Tag: BLOGS
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What Mindy Kaling taught me.
I finally got around to finishing Mindy Kaling’s book. I’d opened it and been distracted by other things at least 5 times throughout 2015 and it turns out that a hot summer beach day is just what I needed to knock it over. Front to back. An easy read full of laughs and humour, I’m…
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Finding the words
Lately I’ve been dropping into the archives of this blog, visiting the posts from years ago like old friends. Into posts before anyone was really reading, into posts where it felt like everyone was reading. It was like getting acquainted with myself after a break. It’s powerful how a blog, a journal of me, can…
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Why I don’t enter the “Comment Wars” but probably should…
Ahhh comment wars. You big bad horrible things. Not a day goes by where I don’t cautiously open a comment section only to have my fears realised. Hateful, hurtful and plain old bigoted comments fill the stream. Not on my blog, thank goodness, you people rock. But on places like Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. For…
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5 last-minute ProBlogger Conference Prep Tips
You’ve left it all a little late, have you? So you haven’t packed let alone tackled the conference schedule. Welcome to the club, my friend. With the ProBlogger Conference coming up on the Gold Coast, this post occurred to me as a good idea. I am so poorly prepared that winging it sounds like an…
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5 blog business tips I learned the hard way
My blog is five years old this October. I think we need to have a party. Don’t you? Remind me to organise something, if you would. This time of reflection had me thinking about what I’ve learnt. About blogs and business and blogs as a business. Blog business. And since I was pondering, and you…
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The death of a blog: What to do if that blog is yours
Something happened behind the scenes of this very blog. Even though I was reasonably happy with the content, the results made me a little sad, scared and embarrassed. People assume that a blog like mine just grows and grows. Here’s the thing, it doesn’t. It hadn’t in a little while. What it had done was…
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