Winter 2011: A rainy day in Claremont

While I type this, a lab full of new bloggers are busily typing their very first blog posts. I wonder what we'll be able to read about soon?

I'm hoping that soon I'll be able to write a list of some great new blogs. In fact, I'm very optimistic ...

Here they are:

• Bernie's Blog
• Creativity Doesn't Come From a PhD
• Amanda Alessi
• Babyboomergran
• Stephen in Canning
• Woofable Read
• Mizzadventures of Mizz Cully
• Sami's Colourful World
• Technology Tips for Moorons
• Stories Around the Mediterannean
• U Must Be Jokin
• Bunbury South Network Principals

Welcome to the UWA Extension Blogging Course blog!

Welcome! My name's Amanda and if you're a participant in the UWA Extension blogging course, then I might be standing right in front of you now. If not, then do consider signing up for the next course. They're lots of fun and prove that you, too, can have your own fantastic blog without too much special knowledge or technical drama.

Useful links for the UWA Extension Blog Course

From the quiz:

• Becoming A Fiction Writer
• Sleep Talkin' Man
• My Life in the Country

Finding images:

• Flickr - search using Creative Commons

RSS:

• Google Reader

Blogging platforms:

• Blogger
• Wordpress

Blog statistics:

• Google Analytics
• Alexa

Making money from your blog:

• Google Adsense
• Amazon Associates
• Problogger.net (Darren Rowse)

Summer 2011: Useful and interesting blogs we looked at during our course



Blogs that I suggested you have a look at:

My Life in the Country

Big Kids Magazine

Not A Ballerina

Becoming A Fiction Writer

From Mum to Me

Because I Said So

Blogs suggested by (or already belonging to!) our participants:

Into the Wild Blue Yonder

The Cape Wine Bar
Jessie Anne - The House of Flowers

Le Couvent

The Food Pornographer

Blogs created by our participants: (How exciting!!):

Tales of a Perth Twenty-Something

Chefs International

Sawtell - quaint but sophisticated
Martin's World

A Few Acres
Wander Yonder
Sunsets and Chardonnays
Cottesloe Viewer
An Evolving Earth
To Be
Speaking of History
Where in the World is Eva?
Joy Manifest
The Weekly Coffee Headlines
Five Acre Voice

 Here's a picture of Perth, so you know where we are!



We're in Perth today!



One of our participants needs a photo of a chicken.
We found one in Flickr. Here it is:

(Thanks to StevenW for the photo)



Spring 2010: Introducing some great new bloggers!

Today in Claremont a fantastic new bunch of blogs was born ... let me introduce a few of them.

First of all, we have a frustrated home builder who's going to chronicle the home building process for us.

Secondly, we have a young lady who claims to be turning 50 soon! We can't believe it ...

And finally, we have a student who is wondering where she is!

We also have a trainer who is wondering how her little boy is:

Small boy

One of the course participants had this to say:

It's hard to get coffee in Claremont on a Sunday morning before 9 o'clock.

Recommended reading for bloggers

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to learn about making some cash out of your blog, then there is one blogging bible and here it is:

The authors, Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett, are pioneers in the blogging field but don't mind sharing their secrets in a really readable way. And Darren's an Aussie from Melbourne, yet a world famous professional blogger. I think that's great!

There are numerous other blogging books on the market, but my advice is that in most cases you're better off doing your research online. After all, if you're blogging you're online, so great blogging information must be there too, right? Darren Rowse's site Problogger.net has a wealth of information - head into the middle of the page to the "Popular at Problogger" and click on the "For Beginners" tab to get you started.

Whenever you reach a stage in your blogging where you're not sure what to do next, just Google your question and there'll be a million answers. In fact, that's how I learnt most of what I know about blogging. For example, when I wanted to change my blog to a WordPress template, I Googled "how to change blogger blog to wordpress" and found several pages which gave me detailed instructions.

You're never too young or old to blog

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