I can think of a few ways. Decide going in to the blog content creation effort that you will get something “done” in a certain amount of time. Remove/destroy distractions, or remove yourself from their presence. Emphasize focus and the task...

I’ve struggled for years to find the right metaphor for the relationship between blogs and other forms of social media. Here’s one of the best I could come up with so far. I invite you to share your own in the comments section below. One...

Hi everyone – just a quick note to let you know that The Blog Herald has revised its blogging conferences page with an updated map, calendar and list of upcoming events for bloggers around the world. Please let us know what you think and what you...

C’mon, we all know that’s you at the computer in the image above. :) Okay, so you’re not a machine and you probably don’t have cool laser guns sticking out of your head. … Speaking of, um, blogging … Here are 18 of...

Ever feel frustrated by the difficulty of promoting your blog and getting more people to discover and enjoy it? Well, here are four of the simplest – but, wouldn’t you know it, also hardest – ways to promote your blog. See if one or...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock with Internet access so limited that you get is The Blog Herald — and if that’s the case, please leave a comment because we’d love to interview you — then you probably already knew...

Hi everyone! Just a quick weekend announcement to let you know about a new resource page from The Blog Herald. It’s the Blog Conferences page, and while it’s very much a work in progress, we present it to you with the invitation to help us...

As the G20 Summit convenes today in London, many bloggers across the world may be wondering what they can do to bring about change in the offline world through social media. As a community outreach coordinator for BloggersUnite.org and a veteran of the...

Twitter. Facebook. MySpace. Flickr. YouTube. Are these and other social media hangouts hurting or helping your blog? No matter what your answer is, you must admit that blogs no longer dominate the social media landscape as they did in, say, 2006. While...

I recently spoke with Bradley Blinn, Chief Officer of Sales and Marketing at Mingle360 (Twitter: @mingle360). Here’s what he had to say about the way his company’s MingleStick could change the way bloggers meet and mingle at blogging...