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Even More Blogging Health Tips

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Problogger.net recently published a post written by Massage Therapist Lovelyn Bettison from Art of Balanced Living and Message Therapy Benefits. The post covers tips such as posture, preventing carpal tunnel, ergonomics, and self massaging. I’m willing to bet that carpal tunnel is probably a bloggers worst enemy. There have been times when I have worked at my pc for 18 hours straight and boy, have I regretted it. The day after these marathons, my right arm which is used to move and click the mouse was incredibly sore. I couldn’t turn my right hand a certain way and things became hard to grip. I believe this was a mild case of carpal tunnel and it wasn’t fun.

I’d say out of this therapist list of tips, I have failed every one of them. I have a bad habit of slouching in my computer chair, do not have an ergonomic keyboard, and do not take frequent breaks. I think I am a recipe for disaster but I’ll be changing that within the next few days.

If that article doesn’t suit your fancy, check out this list of 23 health tips for bloggers that Ryan Caldwell wrote almost exactly one year ago.

How many of you have had to deal with symptoms of carpal tunnel? How do you continue blogging when these symptoms become unbearable? Do you have a health tip of your own? Share it in the comments.

Perfcast Episode 4 – Interview With Connie Bensen

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Episode 4 of Perfcast is available for your consumption. In this episode, I interview Connie Bensen and discuss topics such as social networking, personal branding and community building. Also, we did happen to receive an email this week from a listener in which we covered on the air. No blog challenge entries were covered this week, those will be discussed next week. However, the challenge is still ongoing and that is, for you to write a review. It can be about anything as long as it is not deemed unsafe for work. Enjoy the interview.

LISTENER FEEDBACK – We received an email from a fellow named Patrick.

Hey Jeffro,

Been listening to Perfcast reluctantly and Perfcast is pretty okay. Kudos. How about a question? What two blogs do you recommend for a blogger to read to make their own blog better? Discuss. I’m reading Weblog Tools Collection and I just went back to reading Problogger. Who are your picks?

Patrick

http://www.patricksays.net/

Answer: My Two picks are Problogger.net and Lorelle Van Fossens articles on The Blog Herald

PREVIOUS EPISODE COMMENTS – None

Each week, David and I like to look at the jobs available in blogging and related industries. We cover jobs that catch our eye, and hopefully don’t pay too poorly. We will feature one of these jobs on each episode of Perfcast.

BLOGGING JOB OF THE WEEK – NONE

BLOGGING CHALLENGE ENTRIES FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEK: NONE

BLOGGING CHALLENGE – The challenge this week is to write a review. The review can be about anything you want except the Not Safe For Work category.

The blogging challenge is provided as a means of challenging yourself with a specific duty each week. David and I will be participating in each challenge and will be highlighting various entries from the previous challenge. To have your entry viewed by David and I, leave a comment with a link to your entry on this blog post. You may be the entry we review on the next episode.

LENGTH OF EPISODE – 53 Minutes and 56 Seconds

NEXT EPISODE – Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 7 P.M. EST

ITUNES – Click here to subscribe to the show via iTunes

DOWNLOAD THE SHOW: PerfcastEpisode4.mp3

LISTEN TO EPISODE 4 OF PERFCAST:

Writing Everyday

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Joel Falconer of Lifehack.org has put together a great list of 10 reasons why you should write something every day. Some of the reasons in this list include, know what you want, get away from technology, enhance your communication skills, and turning the noise off. One thing to keep in mind is that the article discusses why you should write every day and doesn’t necessarily mean you should publish what you wrote, every day. Although it doesn’t sound difficult, writing every single day of the week, even if it is just one blog post can become quite a challenge. However, I believe it is an even bigger challenge when you go a few days without writing anything, and then you have to get back into the groove.

Asides from the list published on Lifehack.org, what are some other reasons in which a person should write every day?

WordPress.com Now Offering No-Ads Upgrade

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Over the past few years, Automattic has experimented with displaying advertisements on select tag and post pages on WordPress.com. According to Automattic, that experiment has evolved into a nice balance between barely seeing ads, and making revenue on the ads that have been displayed. Personally, I have never seen an ad on a WordPress.com powered blog but that might be because I am using the Ad Block Plus Firefox extension. At any rate, the ads have allowed Automattic to provide free features instead of more premium, paid for based upgrades.

However, despite the fact that ads are rarely seen, some people may not want to ever display ads on their WordPress.com powered site. Today, Automattic has announced that users can now purchase a premium upgrade that would allow no one, whether they’re logged in or not, to ever seen an ad on your WordPress.com blog.

The No-Ads upgrade costs 30 credits per year ($30.00) or, ($0.08) per day. You can purchase the upgrade through the Upgrades tab in your blog’s dashboard.

When The Big Post Turns Into A Big Flop

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Back on episode 3 of Perfcast, we went over our blogging challenge entries for the week. The previous weeks blogging challenge had been to create linkbait. I was successful with my challenge entry however, David was in the process of putting his entry together for the launch of CollegeCrunch.org. We had an idea as to what the linkbait was going to be about and from the sounds of it, the post had an excellent chance of being successful.

Fast forward to today and it looks like Davids linkbait post didn’t do so well. (Before Posting: Think Like A Common Person) The result of his linkbait post is interesting to me because I had brought the issue up during the show. There are times when you can spend hours on a blog post and think it is going to be a hot ticket item right out of the gate, only to publish the article and see it fall flat on its face. How depressing these times of blogging can be.

However, David has done a good job in his post reflecting back on why the post was a failure. He states that he didn’t review the post from a common place perspective. That is, readers couldn’t emphasize with the article. David gives us three things we should think about before publishing what you believe to be a pillar article, but you’ll have to visit his blog to read those tips.

What I would like to know from you is, have you ever worked really hard on an article only to see it go nowhere? What have you learned from such experiences? Share your experiences and your knowledge in the comments.

Image taken by Melissa Segal under Creative Commons.

40 Awesome Icon Sets

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I’ve published articles relating to icon packs on my own blog for quite awhile now and those posts have served me well in terms of search engine traffic. Also, people seem to love collecting as many icons as they can. With that said, Noupe has gathered up 40 different icon sets which have been hand picked from deviantART. This collection contains icons of donuts, applications, creatures, and much more.

Click here to check out this fantastic icon pack collection.

Let me know in the comments if you would like to see more or less posts highlighting icon packs which are available for free.

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Weekly Link Dump Three

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Thank goodness the cold I had is finally gone. This threw me out of whack last week and I am still trying to get back in the groove of things. Until then, check out some of these links to good reading I found within my feedreader.

13 Ways to Promote Your Next Blog Post

Helping in the WordPress Forums is an Education

Where I Get Story Ideas

Are You A Writer?

41 Internet Marketing Tactics – Take the Poll

Is removing the nofollow tag from comments a good idea?

Using Customer’s Sales Objections to Sell More

Blogging The Inc

After you’re done reading, come on back and lets talk about one or more of the articles listed above. I think the topic of removing nofollow from comments may be a good place to start.

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