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Why we blog: Maslow’s needs as motivators

By AndrewBoyd • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Blogging tips, Current Feature

I wrote the following article on Facibus On Blogging on 25 June 2007. I forgot to renew the domain name so Facibus On Blogging is now lost to me. I’ll republish the most popular posts here over the next few months.
Blogging once or twice is easy. Blogging for six weeks is fun. After that, you’re […]



The Inaugural UXAustralia Conference and the UX of Blogging

By AndrewBoyd • Feb 4th, 2009 • Category: Current Feature, Promoting Australian Blogs

Well, it’s been announced - the first ever UXAustralia Conference. I’m proud to be one of the organisers. The inaugural conference is on 26-28 August 2009 in Canberra, Australia - my home town
What is UX? Basically, it’s a contraction of User eXperience - and it takes in interaction/interface design and usability. More than […]



I is for Inspiration (and why it is important to know your motivation to blog)

By AndrewBoyd • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Current Feature

This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from F is for Friends, G is for Greatness, and H is for Hosting Options.
Inspiration - it is very hard to fake, and without it your blogging days are over. It’s that simple You can fake sincerity with some of the […]



H is for Hosting Options

By AndrewBoyd • Nov 2nd, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from F is for Friends and G is for Greatness.
I’ve been a fan of self-hosting for a long time. Get a real blog platform, get a domain name, get a hosting setup, brand yourself, and build the brand (as an aside, I […]



Pity the Mo-Less: Andrew does Movember

By AndrewBoyd • Nov 1st, 2008 • Category: Life, Recent posts

I’m doing Movember this year to help battle some nasty men’s health issues - prostate cancer and depression. I just sent this appeal letter out to, well, a lot of people. If you didn’t receive it, it was probably because I didn’t have your email address or didn’t think I knew you well enough.
Dear friend, […]



Entrecard: Biting the hand that feeds…

By AndrewBoyd • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

My relationship with Entrecard has come to an end.
After encouraging dozens of other people to join, blogging about them repeatedly, and maintaining the Aussie Bloggers on Entrecard list since January this year, I received an email from them this morning to say that my account had been deleted - one of the three blogs I […]



Does Google own my blog if I post through Chrome?

By AndrewBoyd • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

Interesting thought - read this post on ReadWriteWeb:
The terms include a section giving Google “a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.” That seems pretty extreme for a browser, doesn’t […]



G is for Greatness

By AndrewBoyd • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from E is for Expansion. and F is for Friends.
When I started blogging seriously, I wanted to be a truly Great Blogger. Note the capitalisation. Great with a capital G. Not just successful, but truly Great.
“Andrew, what do you want to be […]



F is for Friends (and other social networks…)

By AndrewBoyd • Aug 9th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from D is for Design and E is for Expansion.
Friends. You gotta have them. Apparently
Seriously though, it would be a pretty sad place without friends.
There are a number of posts around the metablogging community on exploiting the power of social […]



E is for Expansion

By AndrewBoyd • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Promoting Australian Blogs, Recent posts

This post is part of my lessons learned alphabetical series and follows on from D is for Design.
So… you think you are pretty hot. You’ve got 30 followers on Twitter, FeedBurner tells you that more than a dozen people read every post you write, and your Analytics figures are on an upwards trend.
So you decide […]