It has been a crazy week of book blogging and celebrations, and I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who voted, participated, commented, read, and brought the giveaways and posts to the community. You’re all fantastic people and your voices have been heard.
I also want to thank you for voting for my blog as Best Poetry Blog. I appreciated that more than you know.
Three Tips for Blogging:
1. Be Creative: Come up with your own events, challenges, review formats, weekly features, and interview questions. Take inspiration from other blogs, television, your neighbors, strangers on the subway, and wherever else you find it.
2. Try it Out: Even if you try out an idea and it doesn’t work, you gave it a chance. You should also give it more than a few weeks. Keep the events, formats, and other stuff you try going for a month or more because the blogging world is so big, it takes more time to get noticed. You can help that along by following tip #3.
3. Spread the Word: Facebook, Twitter, and commenting are your friends. Its how you make connections, how you build a following, and how you inform others of what you are doing. This works for your reviews, your interviews, your giveaways, your events, and more. If you are starting your own challenge, you should submit the information to the Novel Challenge blog.
One of the latest things I’ve done is make a Facebook page for the blog, and use it to spread information about poets, interesting articles, and publishing updates and trends. It’s been a great way to keep discussion going, and you don’t need to constantly watch it like you do Twitter.
I hope everyone had a great time this week and found some more blogs to follow and enjoy. Take the time to read through these new blogs and get to know the people behind them. You’ll be richer for it.
What are your tips?
Since I received a second copy of When She Woke by Hillary Jordan, I’m going to pass one along to a book blogger. I haven’t read this yet, but it sounds fantastic.
All you have to do is comment and leave a link to your blog so I can visit.
This International giveaway ends Sept. 16, 2011, at 11:59PM EST.