Comments on: Blogging Tips for the Book Blogger http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/ Maw Books - book reviews, book recommendations, book lists, author interviews and more! Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:56:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Fuzu http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-57445 Fuzu Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:21:23 +0000 http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-57445 Ooh dang i just wrote a big comment and when i hit reply it came up blank! Please please tell me it worked right? I dont want to write it again if i dont have to! Either the blog glitced out or i am an idiot, the latter doesnt surprise me lol. Ooh dang i just wrote a big comment and when i hit reply it came up blank! Please please tell me it worked right? I dont want to write it again if i dont have to! Either the blog glitced out or i am an idiot, the latter doesnt surprise me lol.

]]> By: Josette http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2675 Josette Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:02:18 +0000 http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2675 And yes, you could put a list of plugins for Wordpress users like me and lots of other book bloggers to use! I'm always on the lookout for new, interesting and helpful plugins to make my blog better. And yes, you could put a list of plugins for Wordpress users like me and lots of other book bloggers to use! I’m always on the lookout for new, interesting and helpful plugins to make my blog better.

]]> By: Josette http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2674 Josette Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:53:18 +0000 http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2674 An impressive list of blogging tips! And I do agree with you on the paragraph thing. It's difficult for easy reading when bloggers tend to write their whole post in one big, chunky paragraph! Gives me a headache and not good for the eyes, I think. =D An impressive list of blogging tips! And I do agree with you on the paragraph thing. It’s difficult for easy reading when bloggers tend to write their whole post in one big, chunky paragraph! Gives me a headache and not good for the eyes, I think. =D

]]> By: Natasha Maw http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2646 Natasha Maw Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:49:43 +0000 http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2646 Rebecca - It only takes a moment to come up with a informative title. I'm glad you're in agreement. Rebecca Reid - Not a problem to set everything straight. It's worth it! Laura - Hi! And welcome to my blog! I'm glad that you found the post helpful. I'll be making my way over to your website. Dewey - Are you self-hosting Wordpress? I've been wondering if people are interested in plugins for Wordpress and could put up a list here. It might help. I can understand an explanation if a blogger goes a much more longer time than normal from their posting. But I get bugged when I see somebody say, "Oh, it's been a couple of days, or sorry no posting over the weekend." I'm not sorry so I don't think they should be either. I once signed up for Blogger as well and hated it just as equally as you. I couldn't stand the fact that there was no pages and the back end was so confusing. To each their own! What do you mean you're not very savvy?! I've been quite impressed with your set-up. I can tell that you're doing quite well! And I emailed you about Weekly Geeks. Let me know what you think and we can get everything set up. And now I'm so glad I took off Snapshots. After participating in a forum where everybody HATED it, I decided that they were probably right. Rebecca – It only takes a moment to come up with a informative title. I’m glad you’re in agreement.

Rebecca Reid – Not a problem to set everything straight. It’s worth it!

Laura – Hi! And welcome to my blog! I’m glad that you found the post helpful. I’ll be making my way over to your website.

Dewey – Are you self-hosting Wordpress? I’ve been wondering if people are interested in plugins for Wordpress and could put up a list here. It might help.

I can understand an explanation if a blogger goes a much more longer time than normal from their posting. But I get bugged when I see somebody say, “Oh, it’s been a couple of days, or sorry no posting over the weekend.” I’m not sorry so I don’t think they should be either.

I once signed up for Blogger as well and hated it just as equally as you. I couldn’t stand the fact that there was no pages and the back end was so confusing. To each their own!

What do you mean you’re not very savvy?! I’ve been quite impressed with your set-up. I can tell that you’re doing quite well! And I emailed you about Weekly Geeks. Let me know what you think and we can get everything set up.

And now I’m so glad I took off Snapshots. After participating in a forum where everybody HATED it, I decided that they were probably right.

]]> By: dewey http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2644 dewey Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:52:30 +0000 http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2644 P.S. HATE snapshots! I stop reading blogs that use it. P.S. HATE snapshots! I stop reading blogs that use it.

]]> By: dewey http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2643 dewey Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:51:32 +0000 http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2643 Oh, I definitely want your WG list! Could I link to it from my sidebar? It would be a great way for everyone who did that WG theme to be able to hook up with others who do it. As far as the feed suggestion, I have an RSS feed thing on my blog that never works! And I have some widgets to add more RSS buttons, but they also never work! It's so frustrating. But I know a lot of people use google reader to read me, so I hope that's good enough. The no excuses thing is something I never feel certain about. I don't really miss posting ever, so there's no need to make excuses about that. But we live in a place where our electricity goes out at least once a week all monsoon season, and my husband thinks I should explain every time why my blog was out. I figure people just see it's back, if they noticed at all. But do they really want my post explaining something they didn't notice showing up as a new post in their reader? I don't think so, but he thinks it's just polite. I totally agree that you have to figure out what sort of blog tools you want. I use wordpress, and when I recently started a small personal blog, I used Blogger, and wow, I absolutely hate it! It's so frustrating and inefficient and non-intuitive and just UGH. I don't know how people who use it to blog in every day can stand it. Anyway, I don't do some of these things, but I am not a very savvy blogger, really. I just stick to my own little universe, much to the frustration of a few more techy people I know. :) Oh, I definitely want your WG list! Could I link to it from my sidebar? It would be a great way for everyone who did that WG theme to be able to hook up with others who do it.

As far as the feed suggestion, I have an RSS feed thing on my blog that never works! And I have some widgets to add more RSS buttons, but they also never work! It’s so frustrating. But I know a lot of people use google reader to read me, so I hope that’s good enough.

The no excuses thing is something I never feel certain about. I don’t really miss posting ever, so there’s no need to make excuses about that. But we live in a place where our electricity goes out at least once a week all monsoon season, and my husband thinks I should explain every time why my blog was out. I figure people just see it’s back, if they noticed at all. But do they really want my post explaining something they didn’t notice showing up as a new post in their reader? I don’t think so, but he thinks it’s just polite.

I totally agree that you have to figure out what sort of blog tools you want. I use wordpress, and when I recently started a small personal blog, I used Blogger, and wow, I absolutely hate it! It’s so frustrating and inefficient and non-intuitive and just UGH. I don’t know how people who use it to blog in every day can stand it.

Anyway, I don’t do some of these things, but I am not a very savvy blogger, really. I just stick to my own little universe, much to the frustration of a few more techy people I know. :)

]]> By: Laura Baas http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2641 Laura Baas Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:39:38 +0000 http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2641 Natasha, What a great (and highly useful) post. I know what you mean about knowing your limits with time as blogging can eat its way into one's life. Thanks for mentioning some of those blogging directories; I've added a couple to my site thanks to you (I also have a Blogorama button; do you do that one? I'm sure there are lots of others too, so it's probably a matter of picking and choosing). Oh, and I sent you friend requests for all the social book site, so I hope we can be friends :). By the way, I also enjoyed looking around your Book Bloggers Review Database and I'm sure I'll be returning to it again in the future. Thanks for pulling that together. Have a wonderful evening! Laura Natasha,

What a great (and highly useful) post. I know what you mean about knowing your limits with time as blogging can eat its way into one’s life.

Thanks for mentioning some of those blogging directories; I’ve added a couple to my site thanks to you (I also have a Blogorama button; do you do that one? I’m sure there are lots of others too, so it’s probably a matter of picking and choosing). Oh, and I sent you friend requests for all the social book site, so I hope we can be friends :) .

By the way, I also enjoyed looking around your Book Bloggers Review Database and I’m sure I’ll be returning to it again in the future. Thanks for pulling that together. Have a wonderful evening!

Laura

]]> By: Rebecca Reid http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2572 Rebecca Reid Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:58:53 +0000 http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2572 Hi Natasha, I can't believe you went back and changed them all...that sounds like it takes a lot of time. I'm going to start signing with both first and last name...but no need to change anything. I don't care if it starts the comment count over again or whatever at this point....thanks for everything, and thanks more than anything for interesting reviews! Hi Natasha, I can’t believe you went back and changed them all…that sounds like it takes a lot of time. I’m going to start signing with both first and last name…but no need to change anything. I don’t care if it starts the comment count over again or whatever at this point….thanks for everything, and thanks more than anything for interesting reviews!

]]> By: Yet another Rebecca http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2529 Yet another Rebecca Sat, 31 May 2008 10:42:27 +0000 http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2529 And this Rebecca wants to send her congratulations on a fabulous post! Thank you for what you said about titles--that is one of my pet peeves. The only time I don't worry about my title is if it is a post of a personal nature and I don't care if people read it. Sometimes I will go for a provocative title instead of a straightforward informative one, but when I see posts titled "another post" or "hi" in my reader, I skip them. And this Rebecca wants to send her congratulations on a fabulous post! Thank you for what you said about titles–that is one of my pet peeves. The only time I don’t worry about my title is if it is a post of a personal nature and I don’t care if people read it. Sometimes I will go for a provocative title instead of a straightforward informative one, but when I see posts titled “another post” or “hi” in my reader, I skip them.

]]> By: Natasha Maw http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2518 Natasha Maw Sat, 31 May 2008 01:21:16 +0000 http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/26/blogging-tips-for-the-book-blogger/#comment-2518 Rebecca - Thanks for letting my know about the email's. Looks like I still need to work on this one. I went in and edited all of your comments. I had you under two different emails and two different url's which I consolidated into one email and one url (which double check next time you make a comment because the last few were coming in with your url spelled incorrectly). The widget is now linking over to your site. Which by the way, I think it's awesome that your name is Rebecca Reid and your site name is Rebecca Reads. Very, very clever. Now that I think of it, I think maybe it bases it off of email addresses. Who knows what was going on. Including yourself there are at least four Rebecca's who've commented on my blog. Thanks a bunch! Rebecca – Thanks for letting my know about the email’s. Looks like I still need to work on this one.

I went in and edited all of your comments. I had you under two different emails and two different url’s which I consolidated into one email and one url (which double check next time you make a comment because the last few were coming in with your url spelled incorrectly). The widget is now linking over to your site. Which by the way, I think it’s awesome that your name is Rebecca Reid and your site name is Rebecca Reads. Very, very clever. Now that I think of it, I think maybe it bases it off of email addresses. Who knows what was going on. Including yourself there are at least four Rebecca’s who’ve commented on my blog. Thanks a bunch!

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