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Entrecard (and other ads) above the fold…

By AndrewBoyd • Feb 2nd, 2008 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs, Recent posts

Jayne tagged me for the Chain Drop 8 above the fold meme for Entrecarders.

Rules-

Create a post on your blog that links back to this post.
Tag 8 bloggers not mentioned in this post who display their Entrecard widget above the fold and have great content.
Leave a comment on this post and share the link to the […]



Does Entrecard work for me?

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 13th, 2008 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs, Recent posts

Suzie posted a link to the Aussie Blogger’s Forum today - apparently, John Cow is dropping out of Entrecard.
John writes:
Here’s the thing: The whole purpose behind EC is to get noticed in the blogosphere because your 125×125 ad gets displayed on other blogs that have signed up with EC. Obviously if your card is featured […]



Social Contact for bloggers: Of Twitter and Forum

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 5th, 2008 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs

Most human beings are social, most of the time. That is, they need some kind of social contact.
Bloggers are no different - whatever else we may do, we probably all still need to feel that we belong. Social computing tools help us stay in touch, to interact - and a popular one is Twitter.
Here’s what […]



Aussie Bloggers Forum: t plus 12 hours

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 31st, 2007 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs

12 hours after launch, and the Aussie Bloggers Forum has:

Total Members: 46
Total Posts: 1351
Total Topics: 214
Largest number of people online ever: 275 (just before 11PM last night)

That means that at least 229 people have been in as guests without joining up
The community experiment has been a raging success. Overnight (such overnight as […]



Aussie Bloggers Forum is born!

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 30th, 2007 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs, Recent posts

The secret can now be revealed: Snoskred, Meg and I (and a team of very helpful moderators) have been working on the Aussie Bloggers Forum over the last couple of weeks. It has been an exciting time, with a lot of community-in-action networking (and a lot of hard work, including a sterling effort by Snoskred’s […]



Favourite Five Meme

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 29th, 2007 • Category: Blogging tips, Promoting Australian Blogs

Sue from Blogging Sueblimely tagged me with the Favourite Five meme - to play, I have to:
1. Post 5 links to 5 of your previously written posts. The posts have to relate to the 5 key words : family, friend, yourself, your love, anything you like.
2. Tag 5 other friends to do this meme. Try […]



Canberra Blog Community

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 22nd, 2007 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs

I live in Canberra - home of Australia’s parliament and a lot of government stuff.
Apart from living and working here, I also run a Canberra blog list at the Canberra Blog Community site. This morning I added Canberra’s Got Style, Light. Sweet. Crude. and Donna Maurer’s blog, bringing the total to 20. They are:

2blogornot2blog
acidlabs
Ampersand Duck
Aurelius’ […]



What if social media went away?

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 18th, 2007 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs

Australia wakes this morning to a world without Twitter.
The scheduled outage started at 5PM AESST (Sydney/Melbourne/Canberra time) yesterday and while a few tweets got through at around 11PM AESST, we’re still seeing the following as I write this at 6:30AM the next day:

So what are the implications for Australian bloggers? I’ve written in the past […]



Another plug for the Carnival of Australia

By AndrewBoyd • Sep 10th, 2007 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs

I’ve entered the Carnival of Australia again with Following the dofollowers. Here’s the announcement about the current carnival on the BUMPzee Australian Blogs Community:
 Submissions are due by this Mon the 10th at 11pm. This fortnight (Wed 12th) we are over with J at Semantically Driven www.semanticallydriven.com/
Future Aussie blog hosts are:
Sep 26, 2007: a strangled duck
Oct […]



How the Top 100 Aussie Blog Lists work

By AndrewBoyd • Aug 25th, 2007 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs

Facibus on Blogging is listed on two Top 100 Australian blog lists now:

the Top 100 Australian Blogs list and

Ratified.org’s Australia’s Top 100 Blogs list (listed as Andrew Boyd on Blogging and Blog Life)

The two lists use slightly different ways of ranking blogs.
Meg Tsiamis maintains the Top 100 Australian Blogs list and calculates rankings this way:
AU […]