We Blog - How will you manage your blog and your life?

Here's our seventh slideshow RAP of We Blog: How to Create Your Own Media Channel.
It's derived from Michael A Bank's Blogging Heroes.

This RAP looks at "Blog Life": How will you manage your blog and your life?

Here’s an octopus' dozen of clues to manage your blog and your life.

1. Full Time Blogging
   
2. Blog Home
   
3. Automate
   
4. How to Build a Blog Bank
   
5. Online Journalism
   
6. Team Sport
   
7. Read Blogs
   
8. Blog Partnerships
   

Have a click through, it'll only take 3 3/4 minutes and let us know what you think.

Book Rapper We Blog 7 Blog Life

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My Blogging Heroes

The “We Blog” Issue of Book Rapper was derived from Michael A Banks’ book Blogging Heroes.

In his book Banks interviewed 30 of the most influential bloggers on the web.
The Book Rapper version compiled these into a series of RAPs, many of which we’ve offered as slideshows and featured in this blog. See them all on our Slideshare site.

Plus we compared Movies and Blogs highlighting that both of these technologies derive from the acceleration of other media.

Today, I’m posting about three of my Blogging Heroes.

Smart simple Seth…
The famous Seth Godin writes one of the simplest, easy-to-read blogs I know. I model my writing on his: short, sharp, insightful. He’s also the master at turning his blog posts into books.

Read it to learn from one clued in dude!

Local Lad Darren Rowse…
In the big wide world web, I didn’t really expect to be following someone who lives in the same town…
Darren Rowse, aka Problogger, is also a Melbourne boy.
Too bad he barracks for the Blues!
He writes one of the best blogs on how to write a better blog. My post today is inspired by Darren’s program 31 Days to Build a Better Blog.

Read it to better your blog.

And, my new favourite, courtesy of a Seth link… Chris Guillebeau.
Now, the interesting thing here is that Chris writes about his adventure to visit every country on the planet. Whilst, that’s not my trip, I love his blog model. Download and read his free manifesto, 279 Days. Then write your own. I’m building a new blog based upon Chris’ model that’ll be available soon.

Read it to be inspired by one man’s journey.

And now, it’s your turn, who are your Blogging Heroes?

We Blog - What are you going to blog about?

Here's our sixth slideshow RAP of We Blog: How to Create Your Own Media Channel.
It's derived from Michael A Bank's Blogging Heroes.

This RAP looks at "Blog About": What should you blog about?

The answer: Whatever.

There’s a global readership out there and a virtual market for every topic.

Just get started!

Here’s a dozen clues to narrow your focus and heighten your arousal, well, your readers’ arousal levels.

1. Help People
   
2. Rock Your Socks Off
   
3. The Long and the Short
   
4. Regular Features
   
5. Special Features
   
6. Media Swap
   
7. Problem Solving
8. Updates and Revisits
9. Interview Me
10. Scour the Web
11. The Weird and the Wacky
12. Trendspotting
    

Have a click through, it'll only take 4 minutes and let us know what you think.

Book Rapper We Blog 6 Blog About

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How to Get Traffic to your Blog

Here's our fourth slideshow RAP of We Blog: How to Create Your Own Media Channel.
It's derived from Michael A Bank's Blogging Heroes.

This RAP looks at "Blog Traffic". With so many blogs out there, who's going to read yours? And, how are they going to find you? We look at four traffic strategies for your Blog:

1. Producing Great Content
   
2. Getting Links
   
3. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
   
4. Online Participation
   

Have a click through, it only take 4 minutes, and let us know what you think of the new format.

Book Rapper We Blog 4 Blog Traffic

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We Blog 3: How to Make Money From Your Blog

Here's our fourth slideshow RAP of We Blog: How to Create Your Own Media Channel.
It's derived from Michael A Bank's Blogging Heroes.

So how do you make money from your blog?
Well, no one says you have to... but if you do here's four strategies to consider:

1. Blog-a-job
2. Advertise
3. Promote
4. Direct sales

Book Rapper We Blog 3 Blog Money

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We Blog - RAP2 - The Blog Medium - Getting Great Results for Your Blog

Here's our third slideshow RAP of We Blog: How to Create Your Own Media Channel.
It's derived from Michael A Bank's Blogging Heroes.

This RAP looks at "The Blog Medium". The better we understand the Blog Medium, the better the more successful your blog will be. We look at six qualities of the Blog Medium:

1. Niche
2. Global
3. Timely
4. Free
5. Informal
6. Multi-media
   

Have a click through, it only take 4 1/2 minutes, and let us know what you think of the new format.

We Blog 2 The Blog Medium

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We Blog - RAP1 - Why Blog? Why create your own Media Channel?

Here's our second slideshow RAP of We Blog: How to Create Your Own Media Channel.
It's derived from Michael A Bank's Blogging Heroes.

This RAP looks at "Why Blog?" Three main reasons for blogging:

1. Self Expression
2. Create Your Own Media Channel
3. Connect to our Species
   

Have a click through, it only take 4 minutes, and let us know what you think of the new format.

We Blog RAP1 Blog Why?

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We Blog - How to Create Your Own Media Channel

Too many words, too little time to read them all.

Sound familiar?

This blog has been guilty of a word-avalanche and it's time to explore alternate fields.

Here's our first foray into alternate media, a slideshow... An introduction to We Blog: How to Create Your Own Media Channel.
It's derived from Michael A Bank's Blogging Heroes.

Have a click through and let us know what you think of the new format.

Here goes...

Book Rapper We Blog

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