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I m Outta Here
Just a short note to let readers know that I’m taking off for a week’s break as of today (we’re going up North to a beach) and that ProBlogger will be in the capable hands of a number of Guest Posters in the coming days. I’ve just uploaded them all and while there will only […]

User Generated Content and the Threat to Journalism
A few weeks back I asked readers for their opinion on a topic that I’d been asked to write a short column on for the Australian Marketing Magazine (no online version of the article that I can find).The question was - ‘Will the growing popularity of digital user-generated content pose a threat to the traditional […]

Web Graphics Training Course (Photoshop)
Do you want to learn how to make great graphics for your blog?Over at Digital Photography School I only promote a very small group of quality products to my readers. One of the most popular is a Photoshop training resource called Pro Photo Secrets by a fellow Aussie - Shane Goldberg.Shane’s photoshop training (via hundreds […]

Behind the Scenes of The Fake Steve Jobs Blog - [VIDEO]
I came across the following video this morning at InsideGoogle. It’s of a presentation that Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) gave at Google recently.It actually goes for 51 minutes (but there’s not a lot visual about it so you can listen to it while doing something else) and is basically Dan telling the story […]

How do You Sell Your Blog?
This post has been submitted by Karen Andrews from www.miscmum.comI am no stranger (nor are you, probably) to how the wider media sometimes depicts bloggers: as closeted wannabees who add to the rise of ‘faux journalism’. Books are currently being published on the subject.This could understandably contribute to any beginner blogger’s self-consciousness; especially those who […]

Movable Type Announce MT Community Solution
SixApart (the company behind Movable Type) has announced a new product that extends MT4 called Movable Type Community Solution.This new product looks like it takes MT into a social networking kind of direction and incorporates a long list of features including:Member Profiles: Registered members of your community can create and customize profilesAvatars or User Pictures: […]

New Job Board Model Launch at FreelanceSwitch
Job Boards have been appearing on a number of blogs lately (including ProBlogger’s blog job board of course) but most have had the same business model. That being that advertisers pay for the job listing.FreelanceSwitch is experimenting with a new business model for their job board and announced it today.What’s the difference?To post and view […]

Behind the Scenes of The Fake Steve Jobs Blog - [VIDEO]
I came across the following video this morning at InsideGoogle. It’s of a presentation that Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) gave at Google recently.It actually goes for 51 minutes (but there’s not a lot visual about it so you can listen to it while doing something else) and is basically Dan telling the story […]

New ProBlogger T-Shirt Shop Design
During the week I announced that I’d put together a range of ProBlogger T-Shirts for those readers wanting a little blogger apparel.Shortly after that post Gavin from Australele emailed to offer to help me put together a more integrated Printfection shop.Gavin showed me a range of printfection shop templates that he’d done previously and we […]

WidgetBucks to Stop Monetizing Non North American Traffic - Interview with Matt Hulett from WidgetBucks
Over the last couple of months there’s been a lot written about new ad network - WidgetBucks. As with any new player in this market there has a lot of varied opinions shared about them with some publishers reporting quite amazing conversion and others finding the system frustrating as the team at WidgetBucks hones their […]