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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Fuel Your Blogging Success Is Just Beyond Reach… Thankfully January 18, 2010 at 8:00 AM I’ve endured three sequential editions of the Ice Age movies and my heart has been repeatedly broken for Scrat, a pre-historic saber-toothed squirrel who can’t ever seem to hang on to his acorn. He’s absorbed immense pain and turmoil in his hunt and every time he gets within reach, something else happens to frustrate his chase. Scrat’s plight reminds me of the chase for success. Some people are content to simply survive, but in some of us, there is an intense desire for more than survival – we want to be successful and significant. But as John Maxwell says, “Success is a moving target!” When it comes to the blogging industry, success has a variety of definitions. We measure it in terms of traffic, followers, subscribers and readers, or income and revenue. Personally, I define success in blogging more in terms of reach or influence than dollars and pageviews, but no matter how you define success, it’s always a little bit elusive. It remains just beyond reach, like Scrat’s acorn. The bittersweet truth about this moving target of success is that we will never quite arrive. We talk about the “pinnacle” of success, but I don’t believe any pinnacle exists. We’re always on a continuous journey. There are always better articles to write, new readers to reach, more connections to be made, and more conversations to be had. It’s bitter in that it keeps us chasing, often exhausted in our pursuit of a target never quite achievable. But it’s sweet in that this elusiveness is what keeps us chasing, and it’s the chase that defines us. Over the next few days you’ll see several posts here at Fuel Your Blogging about the subjects of success and failure from some talented guest authors. I simply want to challenge you to keep chasing. Keep reading, studying, connecting, writing, trying, improving, and reaching for the ever-elusive pinnacle of success. lancehankins Another great article from: Fuel Your Blogging Advertise on Fuel Your Blogging. © Fuel Your Blogging 2009 Success Is Just Beyond Reach… Thankfully   Just Shoot Yourself and Vlog About It January 15, 2010 at 7:00 AM We’ve written about the subject of video blogging (aka, vlogging) this week and how you really can’t ignore it as an emerging technology. Something else we can’t afford to ignore is the rapid rise of micro-blogging. More of our information comes via 140 character tweets than we could have possibly imagined just two years ago. Many are taking advantage of some innovative ways of bringing these two technologies together. So grab a camera, shoot yourself, and blog about it. The marriage of micro-blogging and video has produced micro-vlogging, a trend in its infancy perhaps, but some believe it’s a growing platform for the future of online publishing. Jen Hinton is a lifecaster who enjoys sharing video blogs on her introspective blog Keep It Classy, hosts an online radio show called Chicks Who Chat, and is currently doing a 365 Vlog Project on her YouTube channel. She shared her thoughts about micro-vlogging with us… We all know that micro-blogging has literally exploded within the past couple of years, but what if we took it a step further?… Vlogging is the next big leap we will all make in the blogosphere in my opinion. Some people are still very scared of the idea but we should ask ourselves why? We share our every move through social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and our blogs… I always wonder though who the person behind the blog is. I can only imagine what you look like and the true sound of your voice. If I am reading your blog on a regular basis then the likelihood is that I am interested in your world. Micro-vlogging is basically twitterizing (love that word) your videos; giving only a brief snippet of yourself on video. There are great platforms out there like 12seconds, TwitVid, and BubbleTweet (my personal fave) that allow you to micro-vlog with a user friendly platform. The reason that micro-vlogging is the next big thing is because people do not have a lot of time. They hop online during their brief lunch break or when they sneak away from their kids throughout the day. It’s quick and easy. So give it a shot! For anyone ready to give micro-vlogging a decent shot, here are ten platforms worth checking out: 12seconds.tv Bubble Tweet TwitVid Robo.to Twiddeo TweeTube.com Twitcam Camtweet TwitC TwitLens Another great article from: Fuel Your Blogging Advertise on Fuel Your Blogging. © Fuel Your Blogging 2009 Just Shoot Yourself and Vlog About It   This email was sent to asif2bd+wpnewspost@gmail.com.  Manage Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.