Mar 09 2010

Wanted: Male Bloggers

Category: Blogging tips — Sarah Arrow @ 4:48 pm

Following the success of Birds on the Blog, I have been asked to set up Blokes on the Blog so that blokes can have the same regular blogging opportunity as the Birds.

It’s the same 12 week, 12 blog commitment and a variety of male bloggers on various subjects, I am hoping Mitch Sullivan will volunteer for the cooking and cleaning blogs ;-)

If this sounds up your street, then please do get in touch after you have had a good look around Birds first, and by all means have a chat with the resident bloggers there.

Then drop me a line – saraharrow@ymail.com with a link to anything you have already written on the web – blogs, articles etc and I will get in touch and we can take it from there.

On a different tack entirely, how do you find multi author blogs? from a participants point of view and from a readers point of view. I would to know what you think of them.

Sarah

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Feb 24 2010

Increasing accessability – an experiment – audio blogs

Category: Blogging tips — Sarah Arrow @ 1:37 pm

I recently discovered ProNagger, and I am gutted she has my name ;-)

One of her post suggests using a site called Odiogo which is added to your Wordpress blog in the form of a plugin in and allows people to listen to your blog rather than read it.

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As increasing a blogs acessibility can only be a good thing, I thought I would try it on Birds on the Blog. I know that Birds have deaf readers and readers with physical disabilities, I wasn’t aware of any readers with sight issues but I still thought that I would give Odiogo a try – if it makes things easier for our readers, then it’s worth having.

Firstly, it does sound a little stilted as it’s read, a bit like Stephen Hawkins and it has a male voice.  It works by converting the blogs feed to an audio MP3 file, so your blogs become podcasts as well. Secondly, the podcasts are iTunes compatible as well.

So far so good.

It has also highlighted the need for me to tag images in posts correctly – or the reader reads out “our flickr pic 5677889″ instead of “a picture of a cute fluffy kitten”…

Odiogo is currently free, but I would happily pay for a female voice as the majority of my bloggers are female :-)

Go take a look and let me know what you think or pop on over to Birds and have a listen to one of the blog posts.

Sarah

PS the plugin is available for some of the major blogging platforms and not just wordpress, I should have mentioned that sooner :-)

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