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Top 5 Best Tips On How To Balance Your Full Time Day Job With Part Time Blogging Posted: 21 Mar 2011 01:21 PM PDT Blogging has become the topic in the lips of every person that comes online. Apart from being a good way of earning extra income online, it serves as a well noted way through which people express themselves and share their personal knowledge and techniques. Due to how viral it has become, blogs are now also being kept by teenagers who blog about certain things and issues they would want to share with their fellows teenagers and other friends. Most people also use blogging as their personal and private diary where they record events as they wish without allowing any other person access to it. Blogs are used for many purposes, but using blogging to make money has become very common. It is good to blog, most people blog full time while a lot of us can't find a place to fit in due to the nature of our job and other life commitments. While this can be hard to do, these smart blogging tips are meant to help you get started as a blogger and achieve a balance between blogging and your daily life activities. Have A Goal You Want To Achieve No business has ever stood online without a clearly defined goal. First you can't blog on every topic, you must select a specific subject, preferably one you have passion in. Will you turn your blog into a business soon? Would you like to release a product on the long run? Or are you just blogging for fun? The real fun in blogging starts from defining your target audience. This is when you can even know what tone to use in writing your posts and what your posts should be treating. Decide on whether you will be making your posts regularly or occasionally; whichever one you choose, stick with it. Time Your Blogging Professions The most successful person and the lazy failure all have the same 24 hours in a day. You need to have time for your blogging business. Set out a specific time and stick to it. It mustn't be daily, make it out as it suits you. The idea is not to let anything clash with your day job, so bear that in mind while scheduling your blogging time; but once done, be consistent with it. Schedule Your Posts Using post scheduling systems has proved very effective in blog management. If you have tight schedules as regards your work, or your family commitments, you can write several articles at a go and schedule them to be posted at different time intervals over the week. For example, for my software reviews and coupons blog, I spend 2-3 hours every Saturday morning and schedule 3 posts for the following week. Then I am free to focus on other tasks. This apparently has saved me a lot of time. Make Your Friends Understand You Beginning a blogging profession and combining it with your work might demand that you invest part of those extra times you spend with your friends and co-workers. If so, you must let them understand your plans. Make it clear to them that you may not be as available for them as you used to be and let them know why. This ensures that you are not only balancing your blogging profession with your work, but also balancing it with some social demands; that means settling anything that might get in the way of your new found profession. Be Open To Adjustments You are required to re-check your goals from time to time and check whether you are still on track. If for some reasons you are not reaching your target goals, then it is time to make changes to your goals and adjust your blogging style. Be open to new ideas and don't be afraid to experiment with new things you have learnt. Create actionable steps for yourself and set achievable goals to accompany it. If you have started for a while and haven't achieved any success don't lose hope, it might take time for you to really get established and know all you need to know. Sometimes the learning curve can be a long one, but it pays in the end. A strong dream as well as being a little desperate for change will help you get where you want to get. What you may not know is that every step you take counts, even during those times you haven't been getting anything in return. Carry on then. Guest Author: This is a guest article by Steven Papas who is the owner of the VeryBestSoftware, where he gives blogging tips and reviews for the top selling products like the Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Student & Teacher Edition Review and his Garmin GPS 60CSx Navigator Review.

Social News Frontrunner Reddit Now Supported By Just One Developer Posted: 21 Mar 2011 12:25 AM PDT Social news aggregator Reddit, which recently had a billion pages views in a single month and has roughly 75 million visits every month, is down to just one single developer (Neil Williams, hired in November) after the other two just left (Mike Schiraldi going to Google and David King going to Hipmunk where he joins Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian). The site has an overall staff of six, including two system admins. Condé Nast Digital had acquired Reddit in 2005 and ever since Reddit has been in news for some reason or another. After the recent Digg blunders, Reddit is the unlikely winner of a the voting-on-news race, a competition that has been somewhat forgotten in the wake of Twitter. Reddit’s growth also has to do with the fact Digg.com is dying after its re-vamp. Loyal Digg.com users like myself hardly go to Digg.com anymore. But don’t be alarmed with this current news — Reddit is definitely not shutting down, despite it currently is operating on a skeleton staff of six people, in addition to a part time designer and a part time customer service person. In a blog post, Neil William, Reddit’s remaining developer explains that with all the growth Reddit has experienced, Condé Nast is going to give them more resources and certainly recruit more developers. The plan is to hire more people soon, but, in the meantime it will have to make do with what it has. “In fact, we just had a meeting with the President of Conde Nast, who told us that they are extremely pleased with reddit and the community, and want to give us more resources and more funding,” Reddit sysadmin jedberg told. “They just approved us to hire even more people than we had originally planned. To further reinforce the point above, our financials are looking quite good for the year,” he added. But at any rate, we find it absolutely incredible that — the billion pageviews social news aggregator giant Reddit is currently being supported by just one programmer. Hats off!

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