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Forums are just like parties!

Wish I’d thought of this post! At Aussie Bloggers an excellent post called “It’s Just Like A Party” has been written by Jeanie about participating in forums and it’s real commonsense stuff. And yet I see so many breaking the often ‘unwritten’ rules of etiquette when it comes to forum participation.

I love being involved in forums – a great way to network with others in a casual way and really get to know people. Perhaps further down the track you might do business with them or socialise with them face to face, who knows where it will lead, but it’s important to start off on the right foot first.  Otherwise you could end up being branded a spammer or troublemaker when it’s possible you’re just being enthusiastic and didn’t think. Especially if you operate a business – all business owners want to let others know what they do and where to find them, but it’s best to play down that enthusiasm and get to know the lay of the land first before linking right, left and centre and being accused of spamming a forum.

Why not read through this list and think on it when you’re next in a forum? It might just help you to have a lot more fun!

Tags: Having Fun, Networking by Kathie Thomas
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Did you get April Fooled?

I hadn’t really thought about what day it was just recently but then the jokes started coming in – some quite elaborate. My radio station got outted by an IT guy early in their hoax.

And the blogger’s forum I belong to made members feel like they’d become dyslexic or that they’d typed the wrong words – took me a few seconds to realise why that might be happening. Very disorienting and strange to read.

I particularly loved these ones!

Baby Calf grows inside Award-Winning Giant Pumpkin

LinkedIn to End Free Service

If you know of others, why not share them here?

Addendum:  Here are some more

gDay™ with MATE™

Yahoo 7 News has a list too

Tags: Forums, Having Fun by Kathie Thomas
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Do You Have Trouble Blogging?

I am listed in the Top 100 Australian blogs list with my Virtual Assistant blog so hopefully that means I’ve learnt a thing or two. Perhaps the following might help you.

When I first started blogging I had to set my Outlook calendar to remind me to write a blogpost on a weekly basis and even then, I didn’t know what about. That was 2 years ago. I began reading through other people’s blogs, leaving comments on their’s and then adding posts on mine that would further or complement a post on someone else’s and link back to them – it brought me more traffic. I always looked for blogs on the same theme or topic as mine. But one of the best things I did was use Google Alerts – it’s free and you can get it to email you ‘as it happens’, daily or weekly a list of blog posts and websites that publish the keyword or phrases you want monitored. That brings me heaps of material to write about.

And just today I’ve written two posts for my VA blog (one is published and the other is pre-set for 2 days’ time) because of things that have happened here this morning. These days I have little trouble finding things to write about – it’s just getting into that mode.

To find blogs on similar topics to your’s just go to www.technorati.com and use the search feature – and then click on the links that come up – that should get you started. KMT

Tags: About Blogging, Having Fun by Kathie Thomas
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