We Are Experienced
Who knows the real figures? Not every blog is indexed. Thousands of bloggers start blogging all over the world every minute. I’m sure that many could be like I was — thinking this stuff has got to be easy and finding it wasn’t as easy as I thought.
Drew McLellan has a project to help new bloggers who are feeling like that. He’s compiling a toolkit — a list of blogs that new bloggers can turn to when they start out — a bloggy version of the SOB NEW BLOGGER PAGE. He’s asking for our help. He said.
Anyone who is interested, create a post listing a few blog sites (and maybe give a word or two as to how you’d categorize them) that:
New Bloggers Toolbox
- Are chock full of practical tips
- Act as a living lab on how to write compelling blog posts
- Demonstrate how to build a community
- Teach marketing tools
- Are welcome wagons – bloggers who spotlight newbies
Drew’s Bloggers Toolkit
Converstations (chock full of practical tips)
CK’s blog (compelling blog post examples)
Viral Garden (demonstrate how to build a community)
Lonely Marketer (teach marketing tools)
Successful & Outstanding Blogs (bloggers who spotlight newbies)
Additions to The Bloggers Toolkit
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DailyBlog Tips (chock full of practical tips)
The Copywriting Maven (compelling blog post examples)
Come Gather Round (demonstrate how to build a community)
Blogopreneur (teach marketing tools
The Good Blogs (bloggers who spotlight newbies)
There are so many more blogs that could be here. I know. I know. If you can, write a post like this one and link back to Drew, so he can find it when he needs to compile them.
Drew’s doing a generous thing with this project. He’s offered us a chance to participate. We can “give back with gratitude,” through the links we choose to pass on. Let’s build a list that will help new bloggers and serve our readers at the same time.
We were all new bloggers once, and someone helped us. It’s nice to have this chance to do the same.
Thank you, Drew, for this idea and for including my blog on your list.
–ME “Lis” Strauss
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Drew’s a really generous blogger and he acts on great ideas that come to his mind. Thanks for sharing, Liz.
Hi Robyn,
You have Drew’s number. 🙂
Liz,
Thanks so much for jumping on board with this. I hope we can create a remarkable resource that new bloggers can access and learn from.
Along with the practical tips…I want them to feel the generous spirit of bloggers, so they’ll know it’s okay to make mistakes, ask questions and learn as they go!
Thanks again,
Drew
Drew,
It’s that generous spirit that will make this project stand out above others!
To me, blogging was easy. It just felt right. Then became a daily habit and I have met great friends along the way. However, I had been reading blogs long before starting to write my own. A starter kit for new bloggers has a lot of benefits. But I still think the learning by doing part of it all is really fun in the end.
Hi Alina!
It feels much the same to me, though I remember well when I didn’t know the first thing about handcoding a hyperlink or what a trackback might be. 🙂
Liz, thanks so much for the mention! (I just learned how a trackback works not too long ago!)Everyone is a teacher, everyone is a student of someone.
Hi Roberta!
Yep, we’re all teachers and learners. That’s the beauty. Blogging is like a world-wide free university. 🙂
Oh, I remember that also! But that made me start learning a bit about HTML. It turned out to be very useful later. 😀
Alina!
I know, it’s so fun to think of when HTML was a mystery and now it’s a bit like the alsphabet. 🙂