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Do you get stuck writing for your blog?

Then have I got something for you!

The moderators and administrators at Aussie Bloggers were given a short story, and asked to fill in the blanks. The results have been combined into The Lazy Bloggers Blog Post Generator. And they’ve made it available for you to use too!

No longer do you have to worry about writer’s block and I’m sure you could get some really interesting stories for your blog. Why not try it out and share here or at Aussie Bloggers the fun that you’ve been having!

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Are You An Aussie Blogger?

If you are an Australian, either living in Australia or abroad, and you blog, then you might be interested in joining the Aussie Bloggers Forum. Now reaching 6 months of age, this forum boasts over 600 members and over 32,000 posts - that’s a lot of chatter!

I discovered the forum only a couple of weeks after it got started and am now one of their top ten posters and also a moderator at the forum.

I did think I really did not need another forum (I belong to quite a few!) but as blogging is something I really enjoy, the chatter there is lively and always of interest.

So, if you’re an Aussie blogger (i.e. you live in Australia and blog, or am an Australian overseas who blogs) then we would love you to join us at the Aussie Bloggers Forum.

June Edition LinkedIn Bloggers Carnival

The next edition of the carnival! Thank you to everyone who has participated. If you would like to host an edition, please do let me know - I don’t get many people putting their hands up. Simple process, simply copy and paste all the entries that have been submitted, check them for formatting and publish them - I even help you by giving you the full list so you don’t have to do them individually.

For our visitors and readers, please do visit those posts that interest you and leave comments for their authors - all authors love to know they have readers!

We have a long list this month - so good to see!

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Brad Trnavsky presents Leadership Vs. Management - Sales Management 2.0 posted at Sales Management 2.0 - Featured Blog Posts, saying, “A short article about leadership and management and a brief introduction to the book 360 Degree Leadership by John Maxwell.”

Lorraine Pirihi presents Who’s managing in your business? posted at The Productivity Post.

Kathie Thomas presents What makes a website truly global? posted at soho-life.com.

Edith presents Six PR Tips from Startup Bootcamp San Francsico 2008 posted at San Francisco Bay Area Small Business Community That Connects You With Entrepreneurs Around You.

Prashant K Shukla presents Role of Meta Title Tag in SEO | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “Meta tags are the blocks which contain information about the contents of your web page and they exist into the head area of your web page. They are basically meant to communicate with the search engine. The Meta Keywords Tag and Meta Description Tag also need to be taken care of and optimized equally in addition to that of Meta Title Tag to secure a place at the top of the search engines and in convincing a search engine that your site’s contents are more relevant than that of your competitor’s.”

Prashant K Shukla presents Site Indexing - Great Eight Tips | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “Site Indexing - The most effective SEO technique is to index the pages of new website. There are lot of important issues, one should take care. We are providing a simple guide steps to help you in this regard.”

Prashant K Shukla presents Search Engines or Web Directories | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “Submitting your site to major search engines and good rank directories help increasing the traffic and good placement in SERP.”

Heather Johnson presents Convincing a Recruiter to Use Web 2.0: Guest Post by Heather Johnson posted at Human Race Horses: Racing to HR 2.0.

Anya Portnik presents ATSCo (Association of Technology Staffing Companies) Members Conference, June 5th 2008 posted at Gavin Ingham.

Mark Montgomery presents College Applications: They Can Make You Sick posted at Great College Advice, saying, “The college application process can be stressful–so stressful that i can make kids physically ill. To say nothing of the parents!!”

Mark Montgomery presents How Good are Advanced Placement (AP) Courses? Are They Worth Taking? posted at Great College Advice.

Prashant K Shukla presents SEO and Meta Tags | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “SEO and Meta Tags - Meta Tags play significant role in SEO and if we take utmost care in building these tags, result would be the perfect optimization of our website.”

Amanda Moore presents 6 Things That Will Make Me Leave Your Blog posted at VagabondetteVA, saying, “If your blog isn’t reader friendly, they won’t stick around - and they won’t come back.”

Matt DiChiara presents Lone Male Roommate Examines Prior Judgments posted at MyNewPlace Blog, saying, “thanks and have a good weekend!”

Isabella Mori presents quickie: what’s a friend? posted at change therapy, saying, “this is an article inspired by the practice in social media to call people “friends” when they are not as close as one would normally think a friend to be. in the comments you will also notice a reference to the use of “friend” in LinkedIn.”

Mark Montgomery presents School?s Out! Top 10 Summertime Tips for College Admission posted at Great College Advice, saying, “Savvy parents–and students–know that summertime is a great time to stay ahead of the curve with the college admissions process. These tips will help you keep life sane and fun–and increase chances for admission.”

Michael. presents Beauty and the Beast: How Attractiveness Affects Your Life posted at A Law Student and Young Lawyer Blog - Law Vibe.

Business or LinkedIn related

Susan Tatum presents What technology buyers don’t want to see on your website posted at TechnoBuzz.

Karl Goldfield presents Training Part 1: Lead Generation - Talented Prospectors | The Sales Coach, The Sales Blog posted at Karl Goldfield.

Erek Ostrowski presents Leadership for Unprecedented Results posted at Verve Coaching, saying, “As leaders, our job is to provide an environment that challenges people with opportunities to be productive and capable, so that they succeed in their jobs and produce results.”

Susan Tatum presents You Have Multiple “Homepages”. Time to Fix Them All. posted at TechnoBuzz.

Karl Goldfield presents Training Part 1: Gaining Commitment - The forgotten objective | The Sales Coach, The Sales Blog posted at Karl Goldfield.

Stefan Töpfer presents THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG » Blog Archive » Small Business Lists – Start-Up on a Shoestring posted at The Small Business Blog, saying, “A selection of business ideas that can be started with almost zero capital”

John Oh presents Influencer Marketing: Enterprise Model posted at Marketing Joint, saying, “Influencer Marketing: Enterprise Model What exactly is Influencer Marketing? And, why is Influencer Marketing so important? In this post, I’m going to lay out some viewpoints and “answers” using a couple charts I slapped together to illustrate a few key concepts.”

Colleen M. Johnson presents Blogger Brainstorming posted at cmjoffice.com Blog, saying, “Got blogger block? Ten tips for blog writing.”

Amanda Moore presents How My Passion is Changing My Life posted at VagabondetteVA, saying, “In a follow-up to a Dosh Dosh post about how having a passion for your business can make it more successful.”

Ed Rivis presents Million Dollar Marketing Secrets. posted at Ed Rivis.

Susan Tatum presents What Web Analytics Can Tell You about Traffic Sources posted at TechnoBuzz.

Kathleen Gage presents Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions: Get the most out of your blogging efforts! FREE report tells you how posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, “What used to be viewed by many as a passing fad has now become a necessary aspect of doing business on the Internet. Blogging has become a necessary aspect of any solid online marketing strategy. However, even though millions of people are blogging, the majority don’t know how to optimize their blogging efforts. Although some people view blogging as a novelty or a “someday I’ll get around to it” smart entrepreneurs understand they have to get into the game of blogging sooner than later. When done correctly, blogging can have an incredible impact on your market position.”

Patrick Schwerdtfeger presents Effective Blogging Process posted at Tactical Execution, saying, “Most people blog ineffecitively. This post offers readers a specific process to follow each time they write a new post.”

Webmaster_1 presents 5 Reasons Why Blogging Is Beneficial posted at The Entrepreneurs Online Magazine, saying, “An article on why blogging is beneficial to any internet marketer”

Amanda Moore presents 106 Organizations That Are Changing the World - Are you helping? posted at VagabondetteVA.

Susan Tatum presents Technology Marketing Fundamentals. Your Best Competitive Advantage. posted at TechnoBuzz.

John W. Furst presents Aweber – A Marketing Lesson And Smart Pricing posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, “Are you freaking out? One of the popular Email Marketing Tools provider — AWeber — has new features and new prices. What’s in it for you?”

Elizabeth Harrin presents SmartDraw 2008: planning the garden posted at A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects, saying, “I’m a LinkedIn project manager blogger.”

Paula Gregorowicz presents Why Web Standards Matter posted at Paula G. Web Design.

Raymond presents How To Make Money From Balance Transfer Credit Cards posted at Money Blue Book.

Raymond presents How To Get Your Free FICO Credit Score posted at Money Blue Book.

Raymond presents Best Business Credit Card For Your Small Business posted at Money Blue Book.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of linkedin bloggers using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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RSS has changed my life!

I didn’t know what I was missing otherwise I would have done this ages ago.

I really could not picture in my head how RSS feeds worked (I know, I know, I’m into all this techy stuff and didn’t get that!) and didn’t want to have to remember to go to some webpage regularly to check to see if people had updated their blogs. I mean, that’s as bad as having to remember to visit their blogs anyway. That’s why I’ve always been in favour of email subscriptions and using Feedburner for that. Besides, it’s nice being able to see the number of subscribers too from the blogger’s side of things.

Anyway, I finally decided to start exploring this RSS thing as so many other bloggers kept referring to it and after posting a question at LinkedIn Answers and also at Aussie Blogger’s forum to find out about different readers I decided to give Google Reader a go.

Why? Because the percentage of people ‘voting’ for it was way above the other suggestions and I also already had a Google account (who doesn’t?). Plus some of the readers mean having to install software on your computer but with a reader like Google Reader, you can literally log into it from any computer anywhere - it doesn’t have to travel with me. So, I was sold!

Anyway, after seeing what I could do with it, I was hooked. I mean I started off with just a couple of blogs but now have 30 on the list. I’ve heard of some with over 100. I know my number will grow too - it’s early days yet…

I love that I can leave my browser open all day and see in the Google Reader tab (I use Firefox) that there are new posts waiting to be read as a number in brackets appear. The tempation to go and read is something I have to learn to control ;-) but it means when I want a break from my work or read something over a cuppa, I can go to my reader to do that. Also first thing in the morning and last thing at night I can catch up with reading.

I now can keep up with things as they happen and not learn about them much later on. Whilst I was using Google Alert, that only works for phrases and keywords I’ve registered and not everything else, and I wasn’t subscribed to lots of blogs as I get heaps of email now and just hadn’t wanted to increase it further.

Of those blogs I was subscribed to by email I now have on the Reader and I know as soon as something has been published so get to read it before the email subscription even goes out. It also means I’m inclined to comment more often and I have already noticed a distinct rise in the number of visits to my own blogs directly from some of those blogs, so it’s working!

As an aside, I love that Firefox will allow you to save multiple pages for your home page, so now Google Reader is one of my home pages and it automatically opens to it whenever I start up or restart my computer.

Blogger Appreciation Day (Unofficial)

I learnt on Des Walsh’s blog today that Darren Rowse has unofficially called April 14th (today) Blogger Appreciation Day.

The idea is to encourage everyone to say ‘thank you’ or to encourage bloggers for the effort they put into what they do. Darren was saying he’d received 3 unsolicited emails thanking him and he’d realised just how much some bloggers just don’t get shown appreciation so he thought declaring today Blogger Appreciation Day might be good to make people to think beyond just reading a post, but actually letting the bloggers know how much they appreciated it. This can be done via comments, emails or even posting on your own blog and linking back.

Des took it further by mentioning three people who have inspired his blog walk and I want to do the same.

First of all is my client, Lorraine Pirihi of The Office Organiser. I’ve mentioned her briefly in previous posts but not in detail, of how she was responsible for me travelling this journey. So thank you, Lorraine.

Second is Des Walsh, who via one of his blogs, actually made me sit up and take notice of what LinkedIn is all about.  Consequently I’ve become a very active networker via that medium - it was definitely worth taking another look.

The third is Alister Cameron who has been very helpful with advice via email and also via his blog.  Making contact with him was worth it.

Now, do you have bloggers you would like to show appreciation to?