Stop The Blogging! Halt The Press!

Stack of newspapersRemember when I said bloggers should experience a blogger burnout at least once in their blogging journey. Well, preliminary symptoms of blogger burnout is most commonly found in difficulty of coming up with posts based on the schedule of your blogging strategy.

If you asked a blog guru or blog celebrity what they do when in this situation they would suggest a 101 ways for you to overcome it. It could be from aggregating other blogs to make simple lists but I’ve found an ultimate solution you will most definetely find helpful too.

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How to Write a Blog Disclaimer?

Sheriff StarA blog disclaimer is becoming more and more necessary to have nowadays. Especially with all the suing going on and not to mention our natural behavior to rebel against any system or law. As much practice you put into responsible blogging, you will stumble upon unavoidable situations where you happen to offend someone.

So how to write a blog disclaimer to cover your a** and help save your skin? What will you need to write in the blog disclaimer to protect yourself from any angle? To be honest, I’m no lawyer but here are some blog disclaimer writing tips and tricks to help you write your own blog disclaimer.

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The Malaysia WordPress (WP) Blogging Seminar

Updated August 8, 2007:
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During the recent weekend (Saturday – August 4, 2007), I invited myself to my first Malaysia WordPress Blogging Seminar preview at the Crystal Crown hotel. It was conducted from 3pm to 5pm by two Malaysia internet marketers; May Ong and Steven Wong.

Their announced qualifications during the preview were May is a certified Internet marketing consultant while Steven who has the same certification adds self-proclaimation being an expert in Web 2.0 marketing. How does he come up with that – he clarified during the end of the preview.

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Automatic Blogging with WordPress

Wordpress AutomatedThis is a very simple WordPress tutorial on one of the most most unused features found in your WordPress blog. Okie, I’m assuming here but because it’s not clearly labeled as it is you wouldn’t know what can be done with it. And just to be clear, this is not a software or plugin to do this.

This isn’t a way to take blogging easy but it’s a strategy you can use to manage multiple blogs. For instance, if your blog strategy is to post 1 article per day in your personal blog and web design blog then this can help you. I’m not recommending you to aggregate content as I believe responsible blogging should always be personal and honest.

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What is your Blogging Strategy?

This article is aimed at personal bloggers who’d like or have a business they would like to implement a blog. Therefore, businesses should take more consideration in the power of corporate blogging. A blogging strategy helps to plan your path ahead like a business plan. It will help you aim to reach where you want.

Though I’m blogging this for business owners, personal bloggers take note that you can also implement this if you’re ready to take your blog to the next level. Not to mention aim to make more blogging income out of it.

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Become a Blog Celebrity in 24 hours

Instead of blogging for the money or fame, every blogger should have clarity of thought before starting a blog. However, if your ideal is to become the next Malaysia blog celebrity then here are some pointers on how to become a blog celebrity in 24 hours or less even.

Being a blog celebrity, people will recognize you, they will want your autograph (for what reason I don’t know), the ladies or gentlemen would love to rub shoulders with you and which person wouldn’t want to date a celebrity? So if you’re really keen on becoming a blog celebrity in 24 hours, here’s how you can do it.

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Should Bloggers have Business Cards?

During the Malaysia Bloggers Buff 2007, I noticed there were many bloggers exchanging their business cards. Besides that you should be interested in knowing more about responsible blogging – forum conducted during the event. Of course, the businesses in the cards were of their full-time job.

However, has it ever occurred to you what if a full-time blogger gave out a business card with just his blog name, blog description, his name and the blog address? This was just a wild idea I was thinking about while I saw many bloggers sharing their business cards.

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How to Become a Responsible Blogger?

This is the second entry following the first one which was more about the Bloggers Buff 2007 event. In this entry, I’ll be writing more about what I’ve understood and how you can become a responsible blogger from what seasoned and more mature bloggers have shared during the event.

The first step to become a responsible blogger is very easy – passion. Speeches delivered by Timothy Tiah (Nuffnang), Yvonne Foong and Kenny Sia commonly talk about the passion for blogging and writing. Sure, Kenny might be raking in big bucks he never intended for all of that to happen. Yvonne is a really great example of a blogger filled with passion and if there were an award for most passionate blogger; she would be the winner.

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The No.1 Mistake to Generate Traffic to Your Blog

Blogging for about 3 years does teach you a thing or two to generate traffic to your blog. And you don’t have to wear a tutu to accomplish it. Lame pun but wanted to add some fun. Don’t blame me why I’m rhyming all of a sudden because it’s just words that are flowing out at the moment.

Anyway, ever since I started blogging I’ve noticed what could be the no.1 mistake bloggers make when they want to generate traffic to their blog. This might catch you as a surprise but I believe the no.1 mistake bloggers make is they start ignoring the existing blog aggregators.

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Why a blog can boost business sales?

Why start a blog? It’s not only because everyone has one but it’s because the blog can show you’re an expert in what you do. Of course it’s different when you have a blog about your personal life. However, personal blogs have an expertise they can show too.

How do you think bloggers learn about their interest like food, traveling and etc? After finding their passion to write about a subject, they soon discover the drive to blog about something they would like to share with the world. Be it, glorious oily mouth watering food or their crazy adventures in the night.

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