Twitter and I have an on-again, off-again kind of relationship. It took me quite a while to learn to like Twitter in the first place - I was "forced" to use it, initially, by a travel website I was working for! - and I still have waves of love and not-so-much-love for it. Just over a year ago I …
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Thoughts on blogging after nine years of my travel blog: why you should or shouldn’t start a blog
Last week my first blog love, my travel blog Not A Ballerina, turned nine. Yep, nine whole years have passed since I first sat down at my little desk in my flat in Germany and started a blogspot blog, not really having any clue about what it was all about, and even less clue that I'd still be doing …
Social media for parents and teenagers
Social media workshops with parents and teensI used to run a course on social media for parents at UWA Extension. It used to really bug me that there was always someone in the workshop who would ask, very early on in the day, if I could teach them how to spy on their kids on Facebook.Obviously, my …
Monetising my travel blog: traffic and income report May 2014
It's been two months since I last wrote about my travel blog's monetisation journey and I thought that made it time to check in again. You might remember that last time I listed quite a few bloggy tasks to do and I have definitely made some progress but at the same time, the monetisation progress …
Alfalfa sprouts and my entrepreneurial journey into social media and blogging
I've been thinking about this post for ages. I even got my Mum to look back over old pictures in case we had one of me with alfalfa sprouts (don't worry, it'll all make sense soon) but alas, back in the olden days we didn't take photos of every single second of daily life, did we! Then my friend Jo …
Preparing for Problogger (or any conference) – four months out
Anyone who follows my Facebook page will know that I was ultra-excited when I got a ticket for the next Problogger conference in late August this year. The Problogger event is "the" conference for people in my industry in Australia and I was lucky enough to attend Problogger for the first time last …