Weekly Digest: Quarter Through Two Months of Guest Blogging Partying, Guest Blogging Article Series, and More Guest Bloggers!

There has been a lot going on this week, but I’m so excited about the fabulous guest bloggers partying on my blog during the two months of celebrations, it’s all I want to talk about!

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What’s Happening with Lorelle on WordPress

Celebrating Blogging and WordPress: We are just past the one quarter mark of the two month-long party celebrating the two year anniversary of WordPress.com and this blog with non-stop blogging about blogging in August and a month of non-stop WordPress tips coming in September.

The guest bloggers have been putting on their best party outfits and bringing forward the best of their best for you and me, and we’re having a great time.

Besides you, the party-goers so far include:

Greg Balanko-Dickson, The Remote control CEO

• Top 10 List: Just Say No To SEO
• If I was to start writing & blogging today I would…
• Observations on The Economics of the Blogosphere
• How to Avoid Mental Gymnastics While Writing Your Blog
• Nine Years Writing: How I Generate Writing Concepts, Tools, and Strategies I Use

Edrei Zahari of Footsteps in the Mirror

• Bringing Personal Blogging To Light
• Writing The Picture of a Personal Blog
• Public vs Private: Cryptic Writing For Personal Blogs
• Defining The Voice Of Your Blog

Engtech of Internet Duct Tape

• Learning About the Web in Plain English
• Sandbox Theme for WordPress Design Competition
• Sandbox Design Competition Winners

Jan of Circular Communication

• Why A Link Post Should Be Like Mingling at a Party
• Why Writing a Link Post Should Be Like Planning a Party

Daniel Brusilovsky of Apple Universe

• What is Podcasting?
• Issues of Podcasting
• Starting Your Podcast

John Pozadzides of One Man’s Blog

• Lorelle Live at WordCamp 2007
• Why Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is Still Important
• Terms of Use and Universal Comment Link Philosophy

Michael Hampton of Homeland Stupidity and Bad Behavior

• Battling Referrer Spam

Abhijit Nadgouda of ifacethoughts

• Why Blog?

J.T Dabbagian of JTDabbagian.com

• Keyword Conquering: How to take control of the search engine
• Planning Your Entry: A Basic How-To On Brainstorming

Pelf Nyok of pelf-ism is contagious

• Almost two years now and what have I learned from blogging?
• What EXACTLY have I learned, you ask?

Dawud Miracle of dmiracle.com

• Why You Want To Link To Other Blogs

Phil Gerbyshak, the Make It Great! Guy

• Be Unique, Not Unusual

I’ve not been sitting back but working harder than ever with some interesting projects behind the scenes – with news coming out soon. I’ve recently posted Announcing The First WordPressMU Consultants from Incorporated Subversion, Blogging Challenge: Favorite or Worst Writing Boo Boos, Weekly Digest: Guest Bloggers Galore, Theme Spam, Blog Scraping, and Personal Blogging, and last week’s popular Are You Risking Your Blog With an Unofficial or Vulnerable WordPress Theme and WordPress.com Blogs Feeds Scraped.

Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging

I’ll have some new news announcements regarding my book called “Blogging Tips” soon. What I can tell you is that a price change will soon be going into effect, so if you want to purchase the book at the introductory price, you can order it 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.

Most Popular Articles on Lorelle on WordPress

The most popular posts on Lorelle on WordPress these past few weeks were:

• Announcing The First WordPressMU Consultants – Incsub
• Why Writing a Link Post Should Be Like Party
• Why You Want To Link To Other Blogs
• HTML, CSS, PHP, and More Cheat Sheets
• Lists of Your Favorite WordPress Plugins
• Designing a WordPress Theme From Scratch
• Learning About the Web in Plain English
• WordPress.com Blogs Feeds Scraped
• Announcing WPMUDEV Premium
• Why A Link Post Should Be Like Mingling
• Are You Risking Your Blog With an Unofficial or Vulnerable WordPress Theme
• Writing The Picture of a Personal Blog
• Bringing Personal Blogging To Light
• Sandbox Design Competition Winners

Blasts From the Past

I love the semi-weekly blog challenges I hit my readers with, giving them a “kick in the blogging butt”. Here are a few examples to challenge yourself with. There are no deadlines on these.

• Blog Challenge: Blog About Those Who Dare to Speak Out
• Blog Challenge: Blog Your Dash
• Blog Challenge: Blog Your Passion
• Blog Challenge: Changing the World in 30 Seconds
• Blog Challenge: Describe Blogging
• Blog Challenge: Does Your Blog Make a Difference?
• Blog Challenge: Geographical Blog Reading
• Blog Challenge: Have Blogs Changed the World?
• Blog Challenge: How Do You Blog?
• Blog Challenge: How Do You Judge a Blog Post as a Success?
• Blog Challenge: How Much Crap Is In Your Blogging Bag?
• Blog Challenge: Personal Blogging – Tell Us a Story
• Blog Challenge: Stupid Human Tricks
• Blog Challenge: Testing Your Blog Clicking Experience
• Blog Challenge: Testing Your Blog’s Development

Blog Herald Columns

In honor of the two months of guest bloggers on Lorelle on WordPress, I’m sharing the lessons I’m learning with the guest blogging experience on the Blog Herald in a series called Learning the Art of Guest Blogging:

• Learning the Art of Guest Blogging begins this ongoing series.
• The Art of Guest Blogging: How Do I Help Guest Bloggers Blog? takes a look at the questions to consider when hosting guest bloggers or becoming a guest blogger.
• The Art of Blogging: How Does Guest Blogging Work? covers the logistics of guest blogging from the guest blogger and host’s perspective.
• The Art of Guest Blogging: What Do Guest Bloggers Need to Know About Your Blog to Guest Blog – As a frequent guest blogger, I used my experiences to layout some information a guest blogger needs to know before and during the guest blogging experience.
• The Art of Guest Blogging: Preparing Your Blog – If you guest blog, be prepared for visitors. Is your blog ready for visitors?
• The Art of Guest Blogging: What Do I Blog About? – When I guest blog, the best thing a fellow blogger can do is cut down my options for the subjects they want me to blog about on their blog. This article helps hosts and guest bloggers understand more about how to make it easier for the guest blogger by helping them decide what to blog about.
• The Art of Guest Blogging: Should You Pay Guest Bloggers to Blog? – There comes a time when guest bloggers require payment. How do you know when to pay or when to ask for compensation for guest blogging?
• The Art of Guest Blogging: Blog Your Best Writing – It seems odd to even suggest or explain why, but when you guest blog, blog your best.

I’ve also blogged about some non-guest blogging topics on Time Wasting Blog Comments, Comments Policies, and Comment Etiquette and the weekly WordPress Wednesday News:

• WordPress Wednesday News: Awesome WordPress Plugins in the Weblog Tools Collection Competition, WordPressMU Updated, Theme Security Issues, and More WordPress News
• WordPress Wednesday News: WordPress 2.2.2, Competitions End, WordPress Theme Vulnerabilities, and More WordPress News
• WordPress Wednesday News: WordCamp Recovery, Stats Plugin Updated, Edublogs is Two, WordPress.com Will Be, and More WordPress News

Lorelle’s Linkworthy Links

• Rise Of Russian Comment Spam: Taragana takes a look at the rise in foreign language comment spam – just because you can’t read it doesn’t mean someone else can’t.
• Solar Cookers International: I’m thinking of giving these solar cookers a try, reducing my electric and gas footprint on the planet even further.
• John Dvorak – Cranky Geeks – Episode 76 Video – Bubble 2.0 Bursting: Lots of giggles and cranks, and Matt Mullenweg enjoying the unhinging a bit too much. :D
• Writing Challenge: Joanna’s Thematic Link Post!: Based upon the linking style posts of Jan of Circular Communication, Liz Strauss challenges others to create such linking style posts.
• Kinexxions – Why Blog Genealogy? Why Not?: Brilliant. Genealogy is a fast growing industry and blogs are leading the way. Are you sharing your family’s history with the world, connecting the past with the future?

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