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How to get more Readers for your blog

Anita Mathias — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:11:00 +0000

Thank you, Seth Godin http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/06/how_to_get_traf.html How to get traffic for your blog Use lists. Be topical… write posts that need to be read right now. Learn enough to become the expert in your field. Break news. Be timeless… write posts that will be readable in a year. Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, […]

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Thoughts on Blogging

Anita Mathias — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:40:00 +0000

1) It’s writing without gatekeepers. You put your thoughts out there; if they resonate, you find an audience, readers, “followers.”2) It is more or less a meritocracy, but it can also be tweaked and cheated like the old system. 3 Nothing is better for breaking a writer’s block4) Bloggers who are honest and keep in touch […]

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Blogs as demanding as toddlers, and monetized blogging

Anita Mathias — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:50:00 +0000

A Blog’s Like a Baby and Monetized blogging Scary words–“It’s not not fun,” says the editor-in-chief of Jezebel, which today attracts almost ten million hits a month. “But it’s more like the blog is a baby, and it has to be tended to at all times. And the baby might grow up a bit, but […]

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Finding Your Own Blogging Voice

Anita Mathias — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:05:00 +0000

Finding Your Own Blogging VoiceI have been writing for a while and have definitely found my own distinctive writing voice. Blogging, on the other hand, was a different ball game–putting up your thoughts on the web, for friend and foe alike, raw, unprocessed, unedited. Wow!How does one find the voice for that? Not too personal, […]

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Second Book Bloggers Meet-Up, Oxford, September 25th, 2010

Anita Mathias — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:09:00 +0000

The Second Book Bloggers Meet-Up This is to announce that there will be another Book Bloggers’ Meet-Up on Saturday September 25th in Oxford. Venue and time are tbc, but that should be enough info for now to let you know whether or not you can make it. We’d love to see as many bloggers as can make it, whether […]

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Blogs and the marginalia of old

Anita Mathias — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:24:00 +0000

“Blogs are the new marginalia, our annotated lives, riffs on our cultural and political patrimony (like this post), asides on the political drama of the day, knowing winks at perpetuity…” from blog@stefangeens.comThe contribution to civilization of the Irish “was the preservation of Roman and Greek texts amid the collapse of the Roman empire. The Irish […]

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Blogging and slowing down and observing

Anita Mathias — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:20:00 +0000

Blogging, slowing down, observing, and describing what you observe is one way to slow down and return to writing after a period of extroversion

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A blogging business

Anita Mathias — Sun, 30 May 2010 11:35:00 +0000

I am really enjoying maintaining my three blogs. It is the only writing I’ve done that has provided a regular income, since my writing has always been feast or famine. (The blogs are monetized with ads). Turning writing, my joy, into a business, has been a joy!!

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Writing and Blogging

Anita Mathias — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:10:00 +0000

I was having lunch with my friend Liz a couple of weeks ago, and she asked me, as one does, what I was writing.I am on a third draft of my memoir, I said; I am writing poetry, I am writing on the Gospel of John, and I am blogging.“Blogging?” she said. “Oh yes, blogging […]

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Blogging and poetry

Anita Mathias — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:47:00 +0000

Blogging and PoetryBlogging and writing poetry require a faith in your own thoughts, faith and hope that they may be interesting, and the acquired habit of capturing your thoughts in words.

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