Why the Lucky Stiff (or _Why for short) was one of the brightest and most inspiring programmers in activity. He became famous through a series of blogs and through the incredible amount of open-source…

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Regular readers of ProBlogger know the name Leo Babauta – creator of the massive blog ZenHabits (among other successful blogs). He’s guest posted here on ProBlogger numerous times and we’ve recommended what he does numerous times.

Leo’s famous for taking Zen Habits from nothing to one of the biggest blogs in the world with over 150,000 subscribers within a pretty short time frame. Off the back of his…

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Posted by Caroline Vanderlip, CEO SharedBook

Since we announced the Blog2Print/Blogger program last Fall, we at Blog2Print have been busy enhancing Blog2Print in response to user feedback and requests. Our goal is to maintain the integrity and ease of the blog–to-book creation process while providing you with more editing power and control over your blog books.

I’m pleased to tell you we now offer two…

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How would you live your life differently if you had one month to live?

It’s a question I was asked recently and while it’s one we’ve all heard before I think it’s something well worth pondering at different times. I also like to apply it to different areas of my life – like blogging….

If you had only one month left before you had to stop doing it…

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This post concludes the sharing of blog tips videos from readers (see previous days videos here and here). I have to say – there’s a video in this lot that made me laugh and laugh – I hope you enjoy it too!

Thanks again to everyone who participated – if you’ve enjoyed these videos please do share them with your networks and visit the creators of…

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Here are the next batch of reader submitted blog tip videos (see yesterdays ones here).

Thanks to everyone who shared yesterdays with their networks – again, please do click through to the blogs of those who created these videos to show your appreciation and do share with your networks the ones that resonate with you most.

Thanks to all who have contributed!

by Amy…

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Some one pinch me please…. this must be a dream!

November 2002

At the end of a day on a warm November day when I was about to leave work a friend emailed me a link in an email suggesting I check out a blog because it seems to be on a topic I have an interest in.

It’s one of those emails that most of us regularly…

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This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren

Happy Monday, bloggers! Every week, we use Regator’s blog trends to show you what the blogosphere has been buzzing about during the previous seven days. (As always, click any trend to see posts about that story.) Because so many people are blogging about…

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A Guest Post by Paul Cunningham from Blogging Teacher.

Recently Darren blogged about how you can use small victories to build momentum in your blogging. This same technique can also be used for product creation for your online business.

Creating a product for sale is a goal for many bloggers, but some bloggers struggle to see a path from where they are now to where they…

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One of my favourite ways to generate a little reader engagement and buzz on a blog is to run a competition.

Giving stuff away never fails to create a little excitement among a blog’s community and it is something that creates goodwill among your loyal readers.

I must have run 50-60 competitions on my blogs over the years but if there’s one thing I’ve learned about which ones…

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