There’s always a story behind what inspires bloggers to write specific posts.
Unfortunately we aren’t always able to include that aspect in our posts
Maybe it is me? But often the story behind the post is just as intriguing and fascinating as the post.
So I thought you might be interested in the story behind A [...]
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The Story Behind That Twitteraholic Post
category: All About Twitter
Here’s My Blogging Story! What’s Yours?
Well I’m a bit late to help John Connell with his session at BBC’s Glasgow HQ!
But I like the blogging questions and think others would be intrigued by my answers.
1. How did you get into blogging?
I’m sure lots of people that are very glad I’m blogger would be totally surprised by the [...]
category: Tips For Better Blogging
tags: blogging
Latest Statistics Say My Blogs Are……?
Unfortunately it is very easy to misinterpret and/or mis-use any type of statistics.
People often look at the number while failing to consider how the statistic was calculated or what it truly means.
About Misinterpreting Statistics
Here’s an example:
Statistics show that 45% of the population can’t read the newspaper.
Shocking literacy rates! Or is it? How many included [...]
Blogging, Chocolate Murray Cods And Let’s Not Forget Bubble Wrap!
Let’s be honest, I’m not sure about others, but I don’t expect gifts when I do presentations but it’s always nice to receive. But I usually give them away (usually to a participant) ’cause I don’t drink.
But thanks to Kerry J I received the absolute prefect presentation gift for EDNA’s Blogging – it’s a [...]
Share Your Blogging Experience & Tips For Participants From Open PD
Great news!!! I’ve been asked by Robin Ellis and Darren Draper to talk about blogging with educators participating in Open PD.
Slight problem! Minor really — hardily worth mentioning but it’s at 5.00 am tomorrow morning my time (their local time of 5-6 pm US Eastern Time Zone on Wednesday April 9).
Time for a confession [...]
Do You Subscribe To Your Own Blog Feed? Maybe You Should!
If you’re not already subscribing to the RSS feed from your own blog using a feed reader e.g. Google Reader it’s time you did! You can’t always guarantee readers will tell you there is a problem .
What happened to Martin Weller (The Ed Techie) yesterday is a classic example of the need [...]
category: Tips For Better Blogging
Can You Really Identify Features That Makes A Good Blog?
So what does make a good blog?
Tara Ethridge asked the Classroom 2.0 community “What are your top 3 blogs you’d recommend others to read about web 2.0, collaboration or anything technology-related?” so that she could create a list for teachers at her school of the most commonly recommended.
While I like the idea of helping teachers [...]
category: Tips For Better Blogging
tags: blogging
How To Effectively Manage Your Comments on Other People’s Blogs
Blogging is all about having the conversations — not talking to yourself! True conversations, which is what we want to achieve, is when we all, author and commenters interact.
Managing Comments on Other People’s blogs
I’ve many tips for keeping up the conversations on blogs but I believe the most important is being very effective at managing [...]
A New Journey Begins: Introducing The Edublogger!
Finally I can shared some really cool and exciting news of my latest venture. A few weeks ago James Farmer, founder of Edublogs, approached me to ask if I was willing to be the editor of The Edublogger, a blog set up by Edublogs dedicated to helping educational bloggers with using emerging technologies in [...]
category: Latest News & Updates
- Thanks for dropping by my personal blog.
Here you'll catch me talking about elearning, Web 2.0 and technology while helping others.
You can also find me posting on The Edublogger, The Campus and WPMU.ORG
The Messy Aspects Of Blog Cleaning
Don’t you get frustrated with mess? I do! But I’ll procrastinate how I can clean up the mess until I can’t take it anymore. Only then will I take action.
Today was my blog cleaning day! I’ve finished what I can but still not happy (are we ever totally happy with blog cleaning?). [...]
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