Wordcamp Melbourne - Darren Rowse.
Posted on November 20th, 2007 by Simon Chen
I actually missed this session, so I only have the video footage to rely on (like many of you). A 7 year old was waiting for me at home to make sure all the Dads at our place had enough beer to drink while 30 kids wrecked our back yard celebrating his birthday.
I’ve been wanting to meet Darren for a while now and we quickly bumped into each other outside the Wordcamp Melbourne venue (as I was leaving and he was arriving).
Darren’s main site - ProBlogger is considered the number 1 blog in Australia, according to Blogpond - the “semi-official” monitor of blog rankings on our shores. Actually, Meg has done a terrific job with this - and will admit the pitfalls of the way Blogpond ranks who makes the Top 100 and who doesn’t. No system is perfect, and until a better way of blog measurement is found (and agreed on), then most people are simply happy to see their blog make the list.
I don’t think Darren cares where he sits on the list. Well, that maybe not quite true. But, once you visit ProBlogger and his Digital Photography School blog, you’ll quickly realise that he’s a hard core publisher. Content is first rate, the monetisation efforts are optimised without being intrusive and he generates a lot of “interraction” within his community - sometimes generating comments in the 300-400 range. This is normally left to the likes of Mark Cuban et al.
Darren is a pro. He’s a part of the B5 Media group, a publisher of many blogs, a well respected and well liked entity within the blogging community and a good example of how, if you really want to make a full time living from blogging, you should go about it.
I know James Farmer was grateful for Darren’s appearance at Wordcamp. As was I. And it’s good to see that in Melbourne, we have 2 of the blog community’s leading blog authorities in Darren Rowse and Alex Shiels.
And Aviansh points us to a in depth approach about how to measure the success of your blog here. You can see the entire video of Avinash’s presentation from Blogworld by following this link.
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December 4th, 2007 at 6:00 am
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December 4th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Found this via Problogger link - I couldn’t make the day, unfortunately, so I will watch this keenly. Thanks
December 4th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
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December 5th, 2007 at 12:58 am
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December 5th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Thanks for the video posting. It was very insightful.
Thanks again.
Jim Moon
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