1. Never blog out of duty. It’s more like bursting into song.
2. Take advantage of your freedom. The only editor breathing down your neck is you.
3. It’s worth saving up for a digital camera because a photo makes the blog more real.
4. Go visit other blogs and see what’s hangin’. Leave a comment and hopefully fellow-bloggers will return the visit.
5. Blog about what you know – you are the expert. And you have untapped reservoirs of you-ness to draw on.
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12 responses so far ↓
Beccy // February 20, 2009 at 11:41 am |
Thanks, Elisabeth for your tips, support and blogging inspiration xx
Markie // April 2, 2009 at 1:51 pm |
….how can I add photos to these messages, anyone kno?
realfoodlover // April 3, 2009 at 8:23 am |
Thanks, Mark. Do you mean a photo – or ‘avatar’ – to go with your comment?
lynne // April 3, 2009 at 9:22 pm |
yes how do you send photos with comments I can’t work that one out either…do you have to send photos through the e mail so the bloggee can approve them or is there a secret code?
erm whats an ‘avatar’ is this an in term that I’m not in on???
realfoodlover // April 4, 2009 at 11:35 am |
Try this.
http://en.gravatar.com/
The service is free – all you need is an email address to register.
I took a pic of myself using my webcam and uploaded my pic from my desktop to the Gravatar website. If I can do it, then it must be fairly straightforward. But let me know if not…
realfoodlover // April 4, 2009 at 11:39 am |
An avatar is an image that represents you. It can be either an actual pic (such as VIZ the corner of my face peering at my webcam wondering if the technology is going to work or whether I am doomed to be perpetually on the outside of everything…) or an image of your choosing. A gravatar is one you can use all over the web hence the g (for global) added to the word avatar.
lynne // April 4, 2009 at 8:57 pm |
What I was trying to say is that you can’t send photos with comments to a blog (or can you with your gravatar thing?) …. Well you were asking to see some pics of the poly tunnels and the produce and I think the only way we can do that is to set up a castle farm blog and link or email you some pics.
Hum but all this technical stuff is sometimes beyond me…… ie photoshop … eek downright scary …..I even went on a course …… yeah I could do stuff the same night I got home from my class ….but several months down the line without any practice and I am back where I started …baffled! Durh…
I am impressed you know all the right terminology (respect)………..I am still using’ ‘thingamybob’,whatsamaflip’ and ‘dodahs’ or when I really don’t get it….. tourette type expletetives!
pandorapickle // April 4, 2009 at 9:59 pm |
oooh look it worked…I’ve been chasing around my mac trying to work how to do it and it did it itself….brill
Stuart Clark // May 2, 2009 at 3:40 pm |
Please could you update the link you have to Gregory Sams currently at http://www.chaos-work.com to http://www.gregorysams.com
on this page: http://realfoodlover.wordpress.com/page/3/
thanks
realfoodlover // May 3, 2009 at 11:06 pm |
Stuart, it is done. The link to Gregory Sams’ amazing website is changed to http://www.gregorysams.com
I mentioned my gratitude to Gregory and Craig Sams for supplying brown rice to my hippy younger-self at this post http://realfoodlover.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/judges-bakery-real-bread/
Thanks for checking the link is now accurate. Stuart, how did you know it was out-of-date?
Jo Dyson // July 8, 2009 at 8:54 am |
Thank you for the tips. They are really useful
Matthew Aslett // September 27, 2009 at 7:22 pm |
It was lovely to me you!!! i’m going to keep checking your Blog for hot tips, i’m just getting into bread at the moment.
my blog is: docphot.wordpress.com
it’s still in it’s infancy, but I learning
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