NxE’s Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. As it is often the case with technology, blogging can seem like a boys’ club to many, but the average blogger is no longer (if they ever were) a geeky, twenty-something man from the US. Strong, interesting women are taking over the blogging world. They have the passion, they have the skills, and they are here to stay.
Today, we’re listing fifty most influential female bloggers at the moment. If you want to know who the blogging world is talking about, these are the names and faces to keep in mind. No. 50 Shelley Powers Burningbird – burningbird.netBurningbird’s Real Tech – realtech.burningbird.net 30 Second Rundown: Powers is an author, web developer, and technology architect who works with, and writes about open source technologies and the semantic web. Why She Matters: She is an outspoken proponent for women in technology, an advocate for increased involvement and visibility for women in Internet and related technology fields.
No. 49 Ms. Danielle’s blog – msdanielle.com No. 48 No. 47 No. 46. Essential Posts that Every Blogger Should Know at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. Building Momentum: How Blog Action Day Got Going at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. 10 free ways to gain exposure for a young blog at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. Every blogger knows the frustration of starting a new blog, and not having any readers. You’re writing great posts, but no one’s listening. Sure, maybe eventually people will hear about your blog, but you want traffic to start building up now.Well, growing traffic will take patience, and you won’t get a flood of new visitors overnight (at least, not without some luck).
But you can do things that will start to get you noticed, and start to get some traffic, and over time, those things will add up.The more of them you can do, the faster your traffic will come. Build a destination.The first step, of course, is writing the content. There’s nothing more important than having great content if you want to attract readers. 12 Ways to Turn a Boring Post into Pure Gold at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. Link Karma: How Linking to Others Can Get You Lots of Links in Return at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. Sustainable Blogging: 12 Ways to Keep Your Posting Going Forever at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. Many bloggers have lived through this scenario: they start off their blog with a flurry of posts, with a lot of enthusiasm.
But once that enthusiasm dies down, posting slows to a trickle, with every real post matched by a promise, “Sorry I haven’t been posting regularly — I’ll be posting more from now on.”So the question every new blogger must ask himself is: how do you keep the fire burning? How do you ensure that your initial blogging enthusiasm lasts beyond the first few weeks? It’s not easy, and it should be recognized that blogging isn’t for everybody. You have to love to write, to share with others, to interact with those who love what you write and those who hate it.
Blog about what you love. If you are passionate about a topic, you’ll want to keep writing about it for a long time. 8 Rules to Develop the Habit of Blogging at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. A marathon is an endurance race with rich rewards. Blogging is much the same, but remember, a marathon runner does not make reckless bursts of speed. It’s all about a consistent and steady pace. For those who haven’t been blogging very long, one of the biggest challenges can be keeping consistent with blogging every day (or on some kind of regular basis). One of the best ways to kill your blog is to run a few posts, spaced a week or two apart, that say, “I promise to post more regularly from now on!” It just sends the message that you’re not serious about your blog. Your brain gets programmed to do the habit on autopilot, by doing the habit regularly and consistently.There should be a trigger for the habit … stress can trigger smoking, for example.
With these in mind, let’s take a look at how to form the Habit of Blogging:1. Exposed!! 10 Secret Habits of Top Successful Bloggers at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. Six Impossible Things You Can Do To Improve Your Blog at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. How many impossible things did you do last week? None? If so, it’s about time to raise the bar. This week, I’m proposing to you, six impossible things that will make your blog more interesting, more appealing, or just that little important bit more popular.But how do you do impossible things? You can’t. If something really is impossible, then by definition, it is: not possible; unable to be, exist, happen, etc.unable to be done, performed, effected, etc.: an impossible assignment.
The trick is to know the impossible things from ones that just seem impossible: Landing to the moon? You get the picture.Most of the big inventions were considered impossible long before anyone dared to try them out. Getting Started With Doing Impossible Things I will give you six ideas as examples to start with, but the real lesson is more profound. The Six Impossible Ideas I promised six impossible ideas.
52 Post Ideas to Help You Stay Inspired Throughout The Year at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. Why Guest Blogging is a Powerful Way to Gain Exposure for Your Blog at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. Ten Practical Tips for Writing in English at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. Online opportunities are not created equal. Although access to the Internet is open to everyone, and the cost of publishing your thoughts are minimal, language gives a huge advantage to those who have learned English as their first language.
They can reach the whole world by writing in their own language. For the rest of us, it requires a bit more work.I’m from Finland, a country of 5,2 million inhabitants at the northern end of Europe, right between Sweden and Russia, so when I started blogging, my decision was easy: if I wanted to reach more than a handful of people, I had to go with English. If you speak French, Spanish or Chinese, there is a bit more incentive for writing in your own language, but even then, the only way to reach the whole population of our planet is to write in English.It’s not always easy, so that’s why today I am sharing with you the ten most useful and practical tips for writing in a foreign language that I have learnt during my blogging career. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Making a New Blog Seem More Established at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast. Every blog starts somewhere. Unfortunately because blogs appear and then often disappear it helps to look early on like you’re here for the long haul. There are some easy cosmetic changes that any blogger can make to help give a new blog a more established feel.Remember you aren’t trying to decieve your readers, you simply don’t want to draw their attention to the fact that the blog is brand new. So assuming you really are going to have the blogging goods to back up your pretensions, here are nine tips to help get a blog off to a quick start: Don’t advertise your subscriber numbersYou may be impressed that you have 18 subscribers to your RSS feed, but chances are that noone else is.
Nothing else says brand new blog with no readership than an icon proclaiming how few people are subscribed. Of course the reality is that your blog will take time to get established and no amount of cosmetics will fool anyone if the content isn’t there to back it up. 31 Days to Becoming a Better Blogger at Blogger Resources by NorthxEast.