Guide To Blogging

Sometimes, it’s so difficult to finish a blog post of 150 to 200 words, with good content and satisfying overall quality. Personally, this problem comes from my being obsessive-compulsive in writing. It is when I am writing with so much eagerness and ideas, I suddenly stop and break my momentum. And no, it wasn’t because of some emergency but because I itched to edit what I’m writing. You see, I learned that writing and editing are two different things. When you write, you just write – just put your ideas down in words. Editing, on the other hand, is what you do AFTER writing. Never mind if you find a bunch of errors, what is important is that you’ve concretized those thoughts dying to get out of your head.

Procrastination is a common problem of all people, in particular, bloggers. Sometimes, we get lost in our research and end up surfing the net for things that are totally unrelated to what we’re supposed to write about. Other times, we just put off writing altogether. How do we beat procrastination?

This might be a little on the cliché side but discipline is key. Discipline yourself. Most of us whine that we can’t work unless it’s late and everyone’s asleep and we have the house to ourselves. Fine, point taken; we all have our working timetables and I, too, am guilty of such whining. But sometimes, it is best to actually get it over with first thing in the morning. You will realize how much more productive you can be when you start working early. After all, you just came from period of rest and your mind is pretty much fresh and more receptive to thinking.

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Of course, any new blogger would always want to have their blogs on popular blogging modules like Blogger and Wordpress.org. Or even other lesser known sites like Blogit and Xanga.

But there is one blogging module that I have been using for long despite that it is not so known in the blogging field, like I thought it should be, and I find it the most desirable and recommendable for those who are looking for free blog hosting.

Blogsome is not that popular because for one, Wordpress does not include them as one of the blogging modules from which one could import their files. What a shame. And it’s so bad that a very efficient blogging module like Blogsome is just being disregarded. Perhaps it is just new and not yet as widely used but recent studies have shown it to be the fastest growing free blog hosting of all.

Consider this, it is the only free blog hosting that allows you to use unlimited Wordpress themes through porting and allows the user great leeway in customization, with no extra fee. And the blogs there are fast-loading unlike Blogger and Wordpress.org sites, where one needs a high-speed connection in order to enjoy them.

Try Blogsome. It’s the way to go.

Flock, one of the newest social network platforms is trying to make itself felt again with a try into linking with Twitter and FaceBook as they strive to make their site a sort of social mashup. Mashups are the latest in-thing in the world of social networking with email, geo-tagged pictures and videos all coming together for a more social web experience. The many startups that are trying to come up with new and more innovative ways to bring the net to more users as they shift from desktops to mobiles (as in Twitter’s case) that has been sweeping the globe at a very fast pace. Continue Reading »

There are actually several blogging platforms out on the market but a mere few make the cut as the best and most effective. they have withstood the time and are in use by millions of people all over the globe, Google’s Blogger and Wordpress, both are of course free and some of the most used of the other platforms on the net. They are somewhat stable if you maintain constant upgrades that would allow your blog to benefit form the latest versions that has addressed most security issues that plagued older ones. Continue Reading »

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Wordpress is one of popular blogging tools around the web today. Almost all result of a search engine today has blog on it’s made from word press.

How to install word press

First you must have a web host then download and install word press on it but some other web host already has a installer on their hosting service all you have to do is just install it.

Making Blog

Log in your account in your website click the write tabs there are two format that you can see one is visual for does who don’t know html I recommend you to use this it’s user friendly and easy to understand then HTML, I recommend this format for does who have knowledge about HTML a great features of this is you can customize your web blog more that VISUAL

Blog now… It just might get lame later on.

You may be a good writer and never run out of good topics to post but sometimes, you end up completely empty of output. Did your writing skills suddenly take a nosedive? Are you tired? Or maybe you’re hungry. You’ve searched high and low and you still don’t get it.

While material block is a state of not having a topic to write about, writer’s block is the state in which a writer just can’t write anything despite the availability of sources and ideas. It’s somewhat a cross between psychological and physiological stress. While you may have everything you need, you just can’t produce anything. It’s not that you lack the drive entirely but it’s more of a short phase in which your mind and body just want to wander around and relax a bit.

Nevertheless, don’t overuse writer’s block as an excuse for your non-productivity, because as stated earlier, it’s only a short phase. Sometimes, you may need to fight it off, too. Otherwise, it can become habitual and that would be scary.

• Tip #5: Complex is not necessarily complicated.

Brief sentences can express complex ideas; it’s only a matter of word choice, voice use and conviction – pretty much the integration of the first four tips. You don’t have to use too many words nor do you have to use a clause-filled sentence. “There is nothing miserable than waking up and finding yourself alone, abandoned in misery, with no one to talk to and to seek comfort from,” – this is a word vomit. “It’s truly depressing to be alone, without anyone to talk to,” this is more like it. Blogs are not literature pieces. In case you also happen to be creative writer, distinguish your poetry posts from your blog entries.

Do you have a business? Do you have a blog? Do you know that you can use your blog to promote your business?

One thing that we love in blogging is that it can possibly relate the business and the customers. Blogging regularly about your business with personal touch and good content can really turn your blog readers into clients. You can also easily gain the trust and support of the people.

You must know by heart what your business is all about for you to be able to increase your credibility both as a businessman and blogger. When you have a blog about your business, you will easily be tagged as an expert.