Weekly Digest: Interviews, Guest Blogging, Kind Words, and WordCamp

The Weekly Digest from Lorelle on WordPress this week features more guest blogging on Problogger, interviews, and getting ready for WordCamp next month!

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Exciting Lorelle on WordPress News

I’m just finishing up a 10 day trip that turned into two weeks on the road. Whew. I have a few more days left and then back to the grind for a week or so before heading towards San Francisco and the amazing WordCamp 2007.

If you haven’t heard, WordCamp 2007 is July 21-22 in San Francisco. Space is limited and registration is required. There is an amazing line up on the WordCamp Schedule, so I expect it to sell out fast, so get your tickets now.

Guest Blogging on Problogger: Three of my articles have been published recently on Darren Rowse’s Problogger, Telling Your Story With Words and Images, and an excerpts from my book, Blogging Tips: Writing Purposeful Content and Blogging Tips: First Impressions Count.

Interviewed: Daily Blog Tips interviewed me, asking some interesting questions this week. Last week, One Blog A Day published an interview, which covers some of the how and why I ended up on Lorelle On WordPress.

Lorelle Speaking at WordCamp 2007: My topic at WordCamp 2007 is “Kicking Ass Content Connections”, helping you connect with your readers and build your blog through your blog’s content. Any tips or hints you’d love to share or know about, let me know.

HELP WANTED – Looking For 21 Foot Motor Home Parking San Francisco: I’m still debating whether or not I’ll drive the small motor home south to California, but parking is an issue. I’ll be staying close to the conference with a friend but I can’t park the motor home in the area and leave it. I’d love some tips and helps on finding a place to park it and leave it for three to five days. It parks just barely in a normal parking spot, but it is just under 12 feet high. I got nailed by a tree on my last trip to San Francisco, so all help is appreciated.

Greg Balanko-Dickson, Guest Blogging on Lorelle on WordPress: A dear friend and fellow blogger, Greg Balanko-Dickson, has graced this blog again with the brilliant Business Blogging Strategy: Build Trust and Rapport, a wonderful look at your blog identity through networking – if they can’t trust you, how can you make the connection with your blog? A great article and invaluable tips. Thank you again, Greg!

Lorelle on WordPress Scrapped and Violated: Some wonderful blogging friends and fans have been alerting me to copyright violations and feed scrapers (splogs) of this blog. THANK YOU. If you find Lorelle On WordPress is being scrapped or the content stolen, please let me know.

I Like It When You Say Nice Things About Me: I have to say, I was totally blown away by Dawud Miracle’s wonderful article about me, highlighting my interview on Daily Blog Tips. Some very kind people had more nice things to say. It is amazing how isolated my work and lifestyle is and then someone says such nice things – I’m really amazed and humbled. Thank you, Dawud, and everyone. I’m blushing and I promise I’ll work harder to be more deserving.

Blogging Tips, What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging: My signing hand now hosts a jammed finger from I know not what. Maybe signing too many books. 😀 Still, the orders for autographed copies are still coming in faster than I can keep up with them, so apologies if your book orders are slightly delayed. I’m on the road and doing my best to keep up with the requests and discovering a lot of new post offices along the road.

To order your own copy of the limited first printed edition with a reduced introductory price, order from SplashPress or the new Blog Herald Bookstore. For more information on the book, see the original announcement and a recent update with reviews and other information, as well as the Blogging Tips Book official page.

What’s Happening with Lorelle on WordPress

This past week’s articles from Lorelle on WordPress included:

• Understanding GPL and Copyright in WordPress Community Podcast
• Blogging With Split Browser Firefox Extension
• Liz Strauss Offers 20 Blog Promotion Guides
• Blog Challenge: How Much Crap Is In Your Blogging Bag?
• Melissa McAvoy Offers 8 Tips for Accessible Blogging
• Tony Hung’s Rules Behind Creating a Great Blog
• Business Blogging Strategy: Build Trust and Rapport
• Essential Keystrokes Throws a Gift Giving Blog Birthday Bash
• Showing Dates Not Just Times in Your Multi-Post Views
• Could It Be? Your Blog Design Really Matters?
• Do You Get to The Point or Ramble to the Point In Your Blog?
• Weekly Digest: Problogger Guest Blogging, Speaking at WordCamp, Blogathon, Parties, and Blogging Tips
• Can the DMCA Be Used Against You if Someone Doesn’t Like What You Blog
• Blog Challenge: Describe Blogging
• Will You Be Blogging in the July 28 Blogathon 2007?
• WordCamp 2007 Registration and Schedule

Most Popular Articles on Lorelle on WordPress

WordCamp 2007 Registration and Schedule is attracting a lot of attention as people are excited about the upcoming conference and have been eagerly seeking information on the schedule and activities.

Will You Be Blogging in the July 28 Blogathon 2007? and on the Blog Herald with Blogathon Tips: Blogathon 2007 July 28 continue to attract a lot of attention as people start to think about this fundraising and blogging event. It’s 30 days away, folks. Get busy now if you are going to participate.

The most popular posts on Lorelle on WordPress this week were:

• WordCamp 2007 Registration and Schedule
• Will You Be Blogging in the July 28 Blogathon 2007?
• Melissa McAvoy Offers 8 Tips for Accessibility
• Designing a Rainbow – Sexy Hot Colors
• Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization
• Blogging Tips – Hundreds of Resources for Finding Content for Your Blog
• Do You Get to The Point or Ramble to the Point In Your Blog?
• Designing a WordPress Theme From Scratch
• All The Styles For The Sandbox Theme in a CSS Stylesheet
• HTML, CSS, PHP, and More Cheat Sheets
• What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content
• WordPress Plugins for Images, Photographs, and Graphics
• Lists of Your Favorite WordPress Plugins

Linking To and From Lorelle on WordPress

Liz Strauss’ “20 Blog Promotion Guides to Inform Your Strategy” was a winner this week. As it should be. It’s jammed packed with a ton of article references and resources you need to know for promoting and managing your blog.

The Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin continues to be very popular as people love to add tags to their blogs. Remember that the latest version of WordPress does not play nicely with this Plugin and that WordPress is adding tags to their next major release.

With the Sandbox WordPress Theme Competition on, links to the Sandbox WordPress Theme and Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0 sites are very high from this blog, and incoming links to Designing a WordPress Theme From Scratch and all the styles for the Sandbox Theme in a CSS stylesheet are many. I can’t wait to see what people come up with for this brilliantly innovative WordPress Theme.

Who knew so many would be so excited about last week’s blog challenge, Describe Blogging. The results so far have been amazing! I’ll be putting together a collection of these very soon. Incredible. I thought maybe we’d all figured out what blogging is, but it seems people are still coming to grips with the term and its definition and meaning in their life.

WordPress News You Need To Know continues to send people to my WordPress Wednesday news on the Blog Herald, stuffed with all the needs on WordPress you need to know published every Wednesday.

Popular destinations and recommendations from this blog elsewhere included:

• Liz Strauss – 20 Blog Promotion Guides to Inform Your Strategy
• Blogathon
• Sandbox WordPress Theme
• Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition 2.0
• Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin
• 9rules.com
• Daily Blog Tips – Copyright Law 12 Dos and Don’ts
• joostdevalk.nl – Enhanced Contact Form WordPress Plugin
• Wil Wheaton
• Emoms – Wendy Piersall – The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes I Made in My First Year
• Wendy Piersall – Is Your Blog Template Holding You Back
• WordPress Plugin and Sandbox Theme Competitions, Hot New WordPress Plugins, Put Post Preview Back, and Stop Blaming WordPress
• Blog Herald – Blogging Tips Book by Lorelle VanFossen
• Firefox Web Developer Extension

Blog Herald Columns

This week on the Blog Herald, I wrote about:

• Political Bloggers and Candidates Have a Legal Right to Lie
• WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress 2.2.1 Manadatory Upgrade, WordCamp Awesome Weekend Conference, WordPress in Japan, and Lots of WordPress Plugins
• SEO Tips: Increase Page Rank By Revitalizing Your Old Posts
• Learning From Blithering Idiot Blog Readers
• If You Can’t Say Anything Nice, Come Blog By Me
• What Should Bloggers Apologize For and How?
• WordPress WordCamp 2007 Schedule
• Blogathon Tips: Blogathon 2007 July 28
• WordPress Wednesday News: Webware 100 Winner, Plugins and Sandbox Theme Contest Rocks, WordCamp Count Down, and a Backwoods Search for WordPress Schwag
• WordPress Wednesday News: Two Exciting WordPress Competitions, Lots of WordPress Plugins News, Hot Blogs Moving to WordPress, and Andy Skelton Riding a Motorcycle to WordCamp

Lorelle’s Linkworthy Links

For my linkworthy links this week, I’ve been on the road all week with scarely any Internet time, so I decided to go through my bookmarked sites and a quick dash to the web to hunt for links featuring “Top 10” or “Top X” tips for blogging and WordPress:

• 10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum – These 10 mistakes will kill a blog as well as a forum so pay heed to them.
• 10 Sure-Fire Ways to Get RSS Readers Visiting Your Blog – Want to kick up your feed subscribers, I’d call this one the definitive post.
• 10 Requisites for Professional Bloggers – Want to be a professional blogger, one who blogs for a living? Then these 10 requisites are required.
• 40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation – These are 40 tips that do say it all. 😀
• My 50 Favorite Blogging Resources – Neil Patel’s list of blog resources is fantastic.
• Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers – In true Mashable fashion, this over the top list of resources for bloggers includes some awesome references you need to know about.

Blasts From the Past

In keeping with the “top X” theme, here are some number titled posts from this blog’s past:

• Top 9 Javascripts for Your Website or Blog Design
• ProBlogger’s One Year Anniversary – Top 20 Posts Showcased
• Examining the Top 40 Blogs
• Tracking the Top Fortune 500 Blogs
• Top 5 Web Myths
• The Top 10 Clues That You Are an Amateur Blogger
• Top 10 Tips for Technorati Tricks
• New and Improved Top 100 Bloggers List
• Top 10 Worst Americans – Not Just Your Average Top 10 List
• Top 10 Interesting People on the Blogosphere by Blog Herald
• PubSub Releases List of Top 1000 Blogs

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