This shot was taken during the opening keynote at the Problogger Training Event. During his talk, Darren asked the audience to think about what their biggest challenge or obstacle in blogging currently was. A word popped into my head by complete surprise, and you can imagine my even greater surprise when it flashed up onto…
In a week’s time I will be heading off to the Gold Coast to attend (and speak at) the Problogger Training Event. Or #PBevent as it’s otherwise known, and hashtagged. As someone who has attended all of these Problogger events so far – this being the fourth year – and as someone who’s attended other…
1. What you get is proportionate to what you give. Yes, I’m talking in a selfless way here. Many successful bloggers will tell you that their mantra is always to ‘give, give, give’ – or, in other words, be as informative and helpful as possible, packing each post with jaw-dropping content. And I’m the first…
It was this blog’s 7th birthday yesterday. Below is the picture from my first post and another I took on Saturday to put side by side and illustrate just how much has changed over this time. (Saturday’s photo took some pleading to get as Keira is a sick little chook at the moment.) But isn’t…
I’ve always been open and transparent about my dealings with brands here on the blog. You’ll find a pretty frank Disclosure policy over on my About page (if you haven’t seen it already) that outlines certain things – like how I handle third-party sponsored content, for example. I enjoy dealing with PR firms, by and…
I took this photo just moments before the audience were asked to return to their seats ahead of a panel I was speaking on this past Saturday called ‘How to find and refine your voice’. The panel convenor was Wendy Tuohy and my co-panellists were Kate Forster and Lou Pardi; they are all fabulous, talented…
I was one of the guests to speak on the Writing Online panel at Offset’s Creative Arts Festival this past Saturday. As I’ve talked about this blog, and my writing/upkeep of it, a fair bit over the years, I wanted to make this talk a little different. It’s a pretty personal story and I’ve never really…
And before I know it, the trip is almost over. Will be back next week x There’s the BlogHer Voices of the Year finalist banner with my post. That’s a pretty good Living List tick.
I’ve not been feeling ‘blogging-centric’ this week. I wouldn’t call it writers’ block (because, as I’ve said before, I don’t really believe in it), and a ‘block’ normally indicates a fixable problem – there’s something wrong that just needs the right tools to budge. This is something close, but not quite. The best I can…
