What is the name of your Blog?AuraGem's Greyscale Territory
What is your name?
Pamela Adams
Where are you from? (include country, state and/or city)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
What is your current age or age range?
50ish
Please describe your blog
My blog represents poetic wanderings. Some thoughts are actually poetry. Other thoughts are poetic prose or poetic visuals.
Describe the main purpose of your blogging, what are you trying to accomplish?
My dream, by writing in different ways, is to showcase my writing skills. I would love to be "found"!!! I would love to bring poetry to the marketplace. I dream of writing poetry or articles for businesses.
What do you blog the most about?
I mainly blog poetry. But I think other thoughts make a refreshing change. At the moment, I have diverted with a few rambling comments on the old Palace Theatre in Sydney. I am hoping someone remembers.
What kind of blogs make you angry?
I find the most perishable blogs are those that enjoy a subjective, vindictive lash at people and places. They cannot last.
Give five of your best blogging tips.
1. Be regular. Hard to maintain, but worth trying. 2. Be different. Again, hard, because "too different" means you can't be categorised and thereby hard to find by the mighty search engine. 3. Be topical. 4. Be challenging. 5. Be aware of an audience! Relate and invite!
What are some things you would NEVER blog about?
1. Celebrity lives. There is too much on this topic on the internet. 2. Crime.
Did you start blogging for the purpose of making money and if so, are you making enough money?
I would LOVE to make some money from blogging, but feel that is an elusive dream. I don't feel my blog is commercial enough! So the answer is NO! I have made nothing! So far!
How long have you been blogging?
I have only been blogging just over 2 months.
About how many hours per day do you spend blogging?
I can't spend hours per day blogging. Usually, blogging time is "borrowed" time! But I still love it!
Do you track RSS feeds and if so, how many do you usually track daily?
No! I haven't learnt this technical wizardry yet!
Do you use Digg, and why or why not?
No! I haven't learnt the "ropes" of Digg yet! My impression so far is that Digg wants more technical articles. I don't offer this!
Do you use Stumbleupon, and why or why not?
No! Again, I think this may be out of the ken of my writing style.
What promotional techniques work best for you and why?
Still desperately searching for profitable promotional techniques.
If you could post a blog on any blog in the world, which one would it be and why?
As yet, I feel unqualified to suggest a blog beyond the one I use now.
What mistakes have you made that you could warn others about?
The biggest mistake I have made is NOT to write regularly. It is quite a battle to do so!
What are your top five blogging site picks and why?
Hint of Poetry is my top blogging site so far. This is a biased answer because I was invited by the webmaster there to contribute some poetry.
Have you met anyone offline as a result of your blog?
No!
Who would I like to take an interest in my blog?
In particular, apart from publishers of magazines, looking for articles or poetry, I am hoping some creative, enterprising businesses may consider poetry as a creative addition to their marketing.
What is the url of your blog?
AuraGem's Greyscale Territory
