I know many of you are also fellow bloggers (yay!). I find there is so much information out there for us to learn and grow. Courses, e-books, conferences, blog posts – I love learning so I try to read as much as I can about this online world to continue my own growth.
I have discovered the only way to improve what I do, or how I do it, is simply to write and try new things. Some ideas work well, others fall a little flat. But the act of trying and trying some more is all part of the learning and growth process.
I’ve written about blogging before – ways that small changes have helped my readership. Or how bloggers can successfully work with PR people. I still believe content rules though (beyond the numbers and stats), and the more we read and share, the more our own words will flow.
Want to meet the Ottawa blogging community? I can’t recommend the Blog Out Loud event enough that is coming up in June. I read the past two years and it was thrilling. It’s amazing to hear blog posts being read by those who wrote them. It brings life to the words in a whole new way. There’s still time to apply to read this year, but even if you don’t read, it’s a wonderful event to attend in support of the Ottaaw blogging community (no matter if you are just starting to blog now, soon or have been for years)
Also, if you’ve been thinking about doing something to improve your blog (new design? courses? etc) I wanted to let you know that Mom Central Canada is offering blogger grants. Applications for the first round of grants ends May 15. This is a really unique opportunity to get some funding for those projects you’ve been hoping to do, but cost something.
I have had a fantastic experience within the blogging community – fellow bloggers I have run into are extremely supportive and I really appreciate that.
How do you work to improve your blog? What do you hope to do with it in the next 6 months? Will I see you at Blog Out Loud Ottawa?
I am sad to say I will miss BOLO this year. I am going to a wedding in Toronto the next day and I want to spend that evening with the kids. But then my blogging isn’t what it used to be. I will renew it someday but right now I don’t have the time. Just a post here and there, that is how it will be for now.
Chantal, sorry you won’t be able to attend! And the one thing that’s nice about blogging is that there is no ‘set’ schedule – come back to it when you can. I look at some months from previous years and see hardly any posts written – life just happens that way sometimes – hopefully you get back to it again soon 🙂
Thanks so much for the blog post, Rebecca! Looking forward to seeing you there.
my pleasure! love it!
Improving your blog is very important especially if you want to increase its ranking.. Anyway, this is a help.. Thanks!
I’m assuming that you meant you couldn’t recommend the BOLO event “enough” instead of just not recommending it? 😉 it’s such a great event. I even considered going back to my blog to write a few posts just so that i could read again! 😉
hahaha yes I suppose that is better 🙂 (changed, thank you!) will I see you there this year?
That’s my birthday! 🙂 But hopefully I can make it. I also applied for a grant – thanks so much for posting about that! In the next 6 months, I want to switch my blog from Blogger to WordPress, and purchase my own domain. I would also love to increase my readership here in Ottawa, and maybe become the “go to” place for information on pregnancy, birth, doulas, midwives, doctors and hospitals here in Ottawa.