Lilian's Tree

A wet, grey Saturday and what better way to spend it that with 15 other like minded, people, attending  Blogging Your Interest with Thang Ngo .  Hosted at Writing  NSW, at Callan Park. Thang took us through how we can set-up a blog. Finding our niche. Looking a different blogging platforms and writing styles. Finding your voice and writing tips. Questions were encouraged and the discussions were useful and informative. Now you might wonder why someone with nearly nine years as a blogger and 600+ posts would attend? Well, why not?  I'm  a firm beleiver that you can always learn something new and that by attending classes, workshops and lectures is the way to go. I did! I have learn't how to look at Google Trends, something I had heard about but not used.  Also getting rid of those annoying words, like, like, very, almost, just, to mention a few. So I'm going to try out some different, interesting words, add a Facebook widget to my blog and reflec...

 This month is my anniversary of my joining the world of blogging.  For the next four (4) Thursdays I am going to post a question and give a clue as to where the answer might be found. What you have to do is find the answer and the in the LAST post there will be the instructions on how to enter, to win the prize. In the LAST post I will give my email address and the FIRST CORRECT enrty will win. I will be checking the date and time, to be fair.  The prize can only be used in Australia, sorry but it works better for me to do it that way. Drum Roll. Question 1. Where did I go and what did I do?    [look at 23/5/2014] Good Luck. Bye for now, Lilian.

                                     The Big Genealogy Blog Book by Amy Coffin. This book was recommended by Jill Ball in her webinar, on Saturday.  You can purchase it from Amazon for $3.99AUD and I suggest that you do so. http://www.amazon.com.au     and enter either Amy's name or the title. This little book as 11 Chapters, covering everything from * blogging myths, * writing quality posts, * important blog elements, * ideas for blog posts.   201 of these, ranging from using old photos to tell a story, to  using technology and many, many more. Buy the book to discover them. I'm still tweaking my blog design, watch this space but I feel much more confident to try new ideas, thanks to both Jill and Amy's book. Thinking about blogging, DO IT!  Thi...

A bit late but the talk I gave on Blogging went really well. Lots of questions and Jill Ball was there and helped with the answers. Some of the group have blogs and we looked at them. Lunch was good and I met my husband at our train station and we went for coffee.

I'm presenting a talk on blogging, tomorrow and am testing if I can blog, on my iPad. Didn't see why it wouldn't work but sometimes technology and I don't play nice. The talk is not using PowerPoint but actually doing it 'live'. Trying to get the Internet to behave and let me present will be a challenge. Watch this space.