Sue Waters Blog

Are You Being A More Effective Blogger By Tracking Comments?

March 1st, 2009 · 17 Comments

When I leave comments on other blogger’s posts I like to be notified on any new comments that are posted.  Maybe it is just me?  But comments by other readers and response(s) by the blogger help my learning.
Being notified of follow up comments means I can choose to continue the conversation by returning to the [...]

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Tags: Tips For Better Blogging · Working With Web 2.0 Tools

Are You Getting The Most Out Of Pages On Your Blog?

February 22nd, 2009 · 25 Comments

How you write your posts and its content is really important! But so are the pages on your blog!  Did you realise that visits to your pages can be higher than your posts?
But when was the last time you audited your pages and made improvements?  Especially your ‘About Page’ since this is where new readers [...]

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Tags: Projects to improve your blogging · Tips For Better Blogging

Interlinking! Is it YOUR idea of fun?

February 8th, 2009 · 21 Comments

Natasa describes interlinking archived posts as “a blogger’s day in hell!“  Strong words but I can’t think of ANY blogging task that horrifies me more than working through old posts to add links to new posts.
It’s incredibly time consuming!  And if your main reason for linking posts is to get readers viewing more pages of [...]

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Tags: Projects to improve your blogging · Tips For Better Blogging

Dealing With Naughty Ning Neglect!

January 28th, 2009 · 27 Comments

I’m BAD!
Don’t adequately facilitate Nings I’ve created and don’t participate enough in Nings I’ve joined. Do they make shirts for people like me?
UPDATE: Thanks to borborigmus (Vyt) we now have a shirt which he has given me permission to use.
We can’t inflict me on more Nings just to complete Day 3: Search for and Join [...]

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Tags: Projects to improve your blogging · Tips for Social networking

How Twitter is Being Used By Companies

January 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments

I’ve been researching how different companies use their twitter accounts to help me make decisions on how to effectively manage Edublogs Twitter account.  Ultimately how a company uses a twitter account is dependent on what they are trying to achieve by using the account.
As an experienced twitter user I’ve never felt comfortable interacting with company [...]

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Tags: All About Twitter

Running A First Time Reader Audit On Your Blog

January 17th, 2009 · 8 Comments

Day 2 in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project is to Do a First Time Reader Audit on your blog. This is one of the MOST important tasks of the 31 Days Project.  How you see your blog and what you write about is often totally different from how viewed by others.
Take [...]

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Tags: Projects to improve your blogging · Tips For Better Blogging

Emailing New Readers Who Leave Comments

January 13th, 2009 · 34 Comments

Wasn’t me who said I’m currently unable to revisit Darren Rowse’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog while also reflecting on Steve Dembo’s 30 Days to Being A Better Blogger!
Course I’m able! Simple… I will write posts about each task on this blog but based on my interpretation of what’s 31 Days [...]

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Tags: Projects to improve your blogging · Tips For Better Blogging

Improving Your Blogging With The 31 Day Project!

January 10th, 2009 · 31 Comments

One of my Top personal blogging I want To-Do’s is to revisit the 31 Day Project by working through Steve Dembo’s 30 Days to Being A Better Blogger!
Participating in The 31 Days to Build a Better Blog project by Darren Rowse (Problogger) in August 2007 was life changing for me. I attribute much of [...]

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Tags: Projects to improve your blogging · Tips For Better Blogging

7 Things You REALLY Don’t Need To Know About Me

December 28th, 2008 · 24 Comments

Been tagged by both Jarrod Robinson and Liz B. Davis for the meme 7 Things You Don’t Need To Know About Me so here goes:

The reason why I majored in Botany, Biochemistry and Microbiology at University and NOT Zoology is I don’t like the idea of killing animals or looking at bloods and guts.
Still consider [...]

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Tags: Latest News & Updates

Life is One Big Top Ten (2008)

December 20th, 2008 · 13 Comments

As a blogger does it really make any sense to write a post a few days before Christmas? Probably not! But just want to blog and besides I owed Paul C a post for Life is One Big Top Ten (2008). He deserves it after dealing with extreme sibling rivalry between my [...]

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Tags: Latest News & Updates · Tips For Better Blogging