flyingrose/blogging

If you want to stay on top of what's happening you really want to be reading Andy Beard regularly. He is extremely wise and has vastly more experience online than most any other blogger.

From the page: "SocialSpark.com Preview - PayPerPost Goes Googlie? - I have been watching & listening to PostieCon via Ustream and chatting in the Meebo chatroom, and at the same time exchanging a few emails with Ted Murphey about Izea's (new parent company of PayPerPost) new Advertising marketplace, SocialSpark.com"

From the page: "Introducing Keith Dsouza, who will be writing for Successful Blog. - Ageless Thoughts from All Over the World - by Keith Dsouza

Do you have an age syndrome with blogging? Do you always think something like I am 32 or I am 58 and I can't start blogging? Well welcome to a world that is ageless and has no restrictions on what you say. Welcome to blogging.

It's an ageless project.

Most professions have age restrictions, blogging does not. If you are 90 years old, you can blog about how your great grandchild plays with you with his toys and how you enjoy it.

If you are a 13 year old, you can tell the world how well you fared at your first baseball game. If you are a mom or dad, you can write about your child's growth and after few years, let him read it. You can look back at those cheerful memories again 10 years further down the line.

Age is never a factor for telling people what you love. A blog can get you there. Blogging can make you friends with someone who you would never have approached in real life. I am 25 but I still have a great friend in Liz who old enough to be my mom. Blogging brought us together breaking the barrier of age, without blogging I wouldn't have approached a woman of her age to be my friend.

Have you seen the ageless project? We'll be using it to explore what bloggers of every age are doing. See the gnerations of people there. Then why not add your blog? You can do that by clicking the logo below."

Thank you Andy Beard for sharing this with us all. I hope Liz knows that she is NOT where she was two years ago. Rankings mean nothing. Search doesn't matter. Real people are all that count and real people share what they find with their friends - the faster and more efficiently better.

If one method ceases to work for use we simply move on to the next one. As long as you know enough people and have multiple ways of contacting each of them, you can move on faster than our meeting places get bought up and changed.

"Now this morning, I realize . . .Real conversation uncovering new thoughts isn't about keywords or searchable content. How could it be? . . . folks can't search for truly new ideas."

Great comment from the page: "Hi Liz! New thoughts are not searchable because they don't need to. They have their own little strategy to finding their way to people. I did not use a search to get to your blog. However, I got here and ceased to be a stranger :) So who cares if you can't search them? Most of us find new thoughts or are provoked to think exactly when they most need it."

This blogger is talking about our own stumbler cmiddlebrook.stumbleupon.com [cmiddlebrook.stumbleupon.com] - and providing insights into how to add value to other's blogs through your comments.

From the page: "You might wonder though, does commenting actually work to drive traffic today in the more crowded blogosphere?

I actually argue that most people go about a blog commenting strategy the wrong way and there is a higher leverage technique that most bloggers don't do, but even if you follow the basic advice and just get out there and be a prolific commenter it will build traffic, and here's proof.

Caroline Middlebrook has quit her job and dedicated herself to full time Internet money making. She hasn't made a dime at it yet, but she hasn't actually attempted monetization yet either. What she is doing is totally dedicating herself to growing her blog and so far she's on the right track.

She's posted a fantastic report covering her traffic building activities for October, including breakdowns on where her traffic is coming from, what she is spending her time on and a short podcast to explain what she plans to change this month based on what she learned analyzing last month's data."

Maki (DoshDosh) has the same perspective of creating a bigger pie that I do. We see that there is no competition as our collective efforts make the pie bigger. The traditional view is there is a limited pie that must be fought (competed) for and the only way to get ahead is to take more than your fair share.

Welcome to the new world. And do subscribe to the DoshDosh blog. He writes some of the most insightful posts anywhere.

Another great idea from Andy Beard. (If you don't know Andy I highly recommend you "meet" him.

"Borrowed" from Andy Beard. Spread the word.

Blogging can be a thankless calling as this post points out. This is a fine example of spreading link-love while spreading encouragement in the Blogosphere.

From the page: "A couple of well-intended comments can make your day shiny again. Following Diana's example, and giving a pursuit to the first meme she launched on her blog, here you can find a list of 13 things your readers could do to enlighten your cloudy day:"