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The ProBlogger Training Day 2011

by frogpondsrock on October 27, 2011

I attended the Pro Blogger training day in Melbourne last week and I am so pleased that I did. The panels were informative and interesting, the day was well organised and the networking was invaluable. I made new friendships and cemented old friendships with blood oaths and bony duck pieces. I think I met the real inventor of the internet and there wasn’t a deafening squeee within earshot.

I took copious amounts of notes and they are scrawled over five pages in my current visual diary. Most of the notes I took are ideas for future blog posts, or reminders to myself to actually get onto those minor tweaks that I have been meaning to do for ages. Like update my ceramic gallery and add a photo gallery of my favourite photos.

I am fairly happy with how my blog is going at the moment as I am not trying to turn my blog into a business. My blog is my voice, it is my connection to the world. Through my blog I am able to indulge my sense of the ridiculous as well as my ZOMBIE KLOUT. I am able to tell my stories and listen in turn to your stories.

I can blog about what I am interested in, what I am doing, what my concerns are and I know that I will always get valuable feedback, as well as invaluable support and hand holding from you my lovelies.

I am thinking about having a reader survey to find out what you are all interested in, but I also know that I will probably take ages to get around to it so if you feel inclined can you give me some feedback in the comments section. Anonymously if you like.

Let me know what you would like me to write more about, publish more or less photos, or if there is anything that you think I can be doing better here. That sort of feedback is invaluable because even though I can read peoples minds, I cant do it without being in the same room as them.

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Sunday Selections #42

by frogpondsrock on October 23, 2011

in blogging,friendship,Fun,photography,scenery,sunday selections

Considering that all Douglas Adams fans know that 42 is the answer, I am seriously pleased to be able to host the 42nd episode of Sunday Selections. Even though I am not sure if you can call a blog post an episode it still sounds pretty cool.

So without further ado here is the intro with the rules

The Blurb

I take a lot of photos and most of them are just sitting around in folders on my desktop not doing anything. I thought that a dedicated post once a week would be a good way to share some of these photos that otherwise wouldn’t be seen by anyone other than me.

I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.

So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.

Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.

Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.

Link back here to me.

Easy Peasy.

The Photos

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Sunday Selections #41

by frogpondsrock on October 16, 2011

in Amy,blogging,David,friendship,photography,sunday selections

Good morning internet, how are you this morning? I woke up this morning and the first thing I thought of was that last night, I publicly announced that I am participating in the Worlds Greatest Shave next year. I have been known to cook up some seriously harebrained schemes late on a Saturday night before this one. The difference being that all those other schemes generally involved alcohol and ran out of puff when I woke up on Sunday and remembered what I had done and then hoped like hell that no-one remembered my rash promises.

This scheme is neither harebrained nor rash. I am committed.

So my lovelies, shall we make a date for Saturday the 17th of March 2012 and I will shave off my hair if we reach my goal of $5000

Now back to today’s business of sharing photos that might otherwise be consigned to spending the rest of their days in a dusty folder in a forgotten hard drive.

The Blurb

I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.

So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.

Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.

Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.

Link back here to me.

Easy Peasy.

The Photos

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On lists and other things.

by frogpondsrock on October 12, 2011

in blogging,friendship,Fun,Zombies

I am on a list.

A very special list. (This is where you all go, YAY and punch the air above your computers!)

A list that is calculated by an algorithm, not by the number of votes you can pester your friends into giving you.

A list that isnt created by a PR company or a brand wanting link backs.

A list that was featured on a daytime Television show back in 2009 when the Australian blogsophere was still just a very small group.

A list that has been around for as long as I have been blogging and has been used as a yardstick for success for a while now.

The list began in October 2007 and after a rather long hiatus is back in action, bigger and better than ever. The directory will showcase the wonderfully talented Women Bloggers we have in Australia, a celebration of women blogging, across ALL niche, no matter what you blog about.

Blogs are ranked by an algorithm which combines a variety of metrics from Google, Alexa, Yahoo and Klout, it is by no means completely accurate. But it helps give a good snapshot of the women blogging in Australia.

Why am I drawing you attention to this list I hear you ask? Why am I flag waving furiously for this list? Why,why, why?

I will tell you.

But first you need to imagine that there is some sort of rousing musical anthem being played in the background.

I want you all to stand here with me in this proud moment in history and savour the glory with me.

I want you all to high five the air in front of your computers and imagine me high fiving the air back at you ( in slow motion of course)

I wont be in the top 100 for very long and I wanted to share my fleeting moment of glory with you all.

I want to have on public record that I was on a list that mattered. Once.

Once, back in the olden days when life was different and social networks called Plurk were all the rage, when Myspace was still in favour, when bloggers could photograph alien spaceships and search for Zombies in the local hospital. When life was rosy within the blogosphere and we all sat around virtual campfires singing kumbaya. When we all linked to each other because it was good manners and not because we thought we had to. When lists mattered and technorati was the be all and end all of ranking.

Aah those were the days my friend.

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Sunday Selections #40

by frogpondsrock on October 9, 2011

in friendship,photography,sunday selections

I am quickly writing this while I am at work today, so I hope it isn’t too disjointed as I keep on stopping to chat with customers coming into the shop.

The Blurb

I am also remarkably absent minded and I put photos into folders and think that I will publish them later on and then then I never do.

So I have started a photo meme that anyone can join in and play as well. The rules are so simple as to be virtually non existent.

Just add your name and URL to the Mr Linky.

Publish your photos on your blog using the “Sunday Selections” title.

Link back here to me.

Easy Peasy.

The Photos