I knew I’d been working for quite a while on my new book on blogging, 7 Step Business Blog. I didn’t realise quite how long. Then a few days ago I was looking for some related information and discovered that it was a year ago, almost to the day, that my friend and colleague, Bill…
This post is a bit of a mixture of the personal and business aspects of my life. It’s personal, because it’s about the apartment of which I am a co-owner and in the process of selling. The apartment is in the Sydney suburb of Arncliffe. And it’s business because, being a blogging evangelist, I thought…
On my desk, alongside my computer, I have a little strip of paper with a statement on it that I notice on a daily basis. The statement includes a question I think I’m supposed to ask myself regularly, a question I find provocative. A friend gave me the piece of paper with the statement and…
I’m setting up a new blog as part of the exercise of launching my new e-book, 7 Step Business Blog. Following my own advice from Chapter 6 of the 7 Step book, Set Up Your Blog, I’ve taken a couple of sheets of paper to work out the strategy for the blogsite. I’m using the…
p>I’ve been more than a bit frustrated by the time demands on me to get this blog, based on the downloadable version of WordPress from wordpress.org, up and running. So I have been interested in what seemed a comparative ease of use for the sister product, the hosted WordPress.com, which I’ve started to use for…
I’m still experimenting with WordPress design themes for this blog. There is no shortage of themes and I’ve just spent an hour or more browsing some of them, courtesy of Alex King’s very helpful theme browser. It’s actually been very easy for me to try out different themes. It’s just a matter of downloading a…