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Thank you to everyone who submitted posts for the Blog Improvement Project Social Media Carnival. We have post on a whole variety of topics, so feel free to scroll around and learn more about social media that’s interesting for you. Some Overviews Margot at Joyfully Retired wrote an excellent post pointing out the uses of [...]

March is Social Media Month for the Blog Improvement Project, and the first task is to write about how you use a social media tool to improve your blog. I thought about writing on a bunch of different things, but finally decided to write about Delicious because it is one of the only tools I [...]

Thanks to everyone who participated in Week 4 of the BIP where we worked on blog basics. It was nice to take a little break and work on some things that I needed to do around here. I hope everyone else felt the same. Because I love alliteration, March is going to be Social Media [...]

I got started on my BIP Week 4 projects last week, and although I’m only partially finished I thought today would be a good day for my own update. I’m in the process of updating my About Me page.  I added a section of Awards (in progress) and Communities, and am going to work on [...]

I don’t know about you, but Blog Post Bingo was a lot harder for me than I expected!  I’m a little worn out, so this week’s Blog Improvement Project activity is going to be more low-key. This week we’re going to focus on blog basics — when a new reader gets to your site, how [...]

Week 4 of the Blog Improvement Project was Blog Post Bingo.  Of the people who signed Mr. Linky that they participated, 8 of them completed all 10 posts: Dorte H at DJs Krimiblog (with a little fudging), Suey at It’s All About Books, Sherrie at Just Books, Sarah at Behold, the thing that reads a [...]

No wrap-up for Week Two, partially based on a suggestion from Elizabeth at Thoughts from an Evil Overlord that we check back in a few months to see how the regular features are going.  I think that’s smart, so we’ll do a wrap up of Week 2 sometime in the future. Week 3 of the [...]

Lots of blogging advice sites and such constantly say that “content is king” — good content is what keeps readers coming back to read more of your blog. People start blogs with lots of content ideas, but as the weeks go by sometimes we start to lose steam (at least, I know I do).  That’s [...]

I finally got to visit all of the participants for Week 1 of the Blog Improvement Project, and I have to say that I was totally inspired by all of the great goals.  There were 42 bloggers who participated, and after going through them I came across a number of similar goals: Leave more comments. [...]