My blog often stresses me out. It’s gotten me thinking about how I personally define blogging success as it pertains to me.  My blog isn’t really a source of income for me directly, but it has opened up quite a few doors for me in my career, so indirectly it does.  For me I’ve measured success through my blog traffic, subscribers and engagement.  While I’ve been able to grow my audience and blog traffic, my engagement and back links are a little less then to be desired.  Social Media Friendly Blogging. Blogging MORE >>

Jeremy Whittaker , my Utah turned Germany friend, asks, “Could you give a rundown of the the best technologies for a corporate blog? I’m looking for the best platforms and plugins that make a blog rock.&#. If you’re curious about my personal Tumblr blog I mention, you can find it here ( Del Williams calls it food porn). Tweetbacks (shows tweets as comments on the blog). PostRank. OnSwipe (allows you to view the blog on the tablet as if it’s a magazine). It’s Facebook question of the week time (clap, clap, clap!). WPtouch. MORE >>

As some of you may know, I recently launched a photography blog, Photostry. So how do I organize all of those blogs? And naturally, after I organized my photo blogs, the next step was to organize the rest of the blogs I wanted to comment on. now have a total of 538 blogs, appropriately categorized by the potential Fetching Friday topics they would fit under. See what posts have the highest engagement on any of my feeds with the PostRank Chrome Extension. Google Reader & Blog Commenting. How Blog Commenting Has Made a Difference. MORE >>

If you are looking for guest blogging or advertising opportunities on other blogs, you will first want to research your options so that you choose the best home for your post or banner ad. First of all, what should you be looking for in another blog? Maybe it will give you an idea of how many sites are linking to the blog, but it doesn’t help determine traffic, engagement or if Google even considers the blog an authority. So when it comes to determining the worth of a blog, I would worry more about traffic and engagement, and less about PageRank. MORE >>

would have to say that it was the fastest and hardest I’ve typed within one hour, but it was a great experience where I got to really learn a lot about what blogging questions people have today. Social Media Examiner’s Live Blogging Q&A. You’ll find questions from a variety of topics including business blogging, make money blogging, social media, video, WordPress, and more. Question: I have a wordpress blog and am considering hosting it myself so that the site name looks more professional. Answer: I think video blogging is a great thing. MORE >>