Well, if you tuned in to this blog on Friday then you know that I’ve decided to participate in the A-Z Blogging Challenge. And you will also know that I am supposed to be posting every day except for Sundays but here it is on Sunday and I’m posting. That’s because I already fell behind and forgot to post yesterday! Glad to have an extra day at the beginning of the challenge to keep me on track.

So today’s letter is B and for me B is blogging.

WHERE I BLOG

I work as a professional full-time blogger. I have my own blogs but I make my living writing and promoting blog posts for various types of businesses across different industries. So I thought for today I’d share some of the places where I blog:

• Crochet Concupiscence. This is my baby – the place where I blog for passion about crochet. I write 4-5 posts daily M-F and a couple of posts on weekends and I never get tired of it. If you’ve ever had any interest in crochet then this blog is for you.
• Real Words. This was my first personal blog and it was intended to be all about my writing experience. I enjoyed blogging about that for awhile but then I got tired of blogging about what I did all day – blogging! So now what I do is help other bloggers and writers out by featuring their guest posts on writing here.
• Dialaphone. This is a UK blog about mobile phones that I’ve been blogging for going on four years now. I write about mobile phone news, provide how to guides for mobile phones and specifically enjoy writing about tech advancements in this industry.
• Financial Highway. This is a blog where I write about personal finance. I write here about once per week and enjoy sharing tips on getting out of debt, increasing your financial literacy and other every day finance stuff.
• Discount Coder. This is a blog I only recently started writing for. It’s on a discount codes site so here I write about different ways to save money (with coupons but also in other ways). This is a UK site but I also write about the same topic on other blogs for a U.S. audience.
• Yellow Brick Road. Here I write about resumes and job hunt tips primarily for a college-aged audience. I write for a similar audience (but on different topics) for a site called Classes and Careers.

So that’s just a few places where I blog. Maybe some of them will interest you?

BLOGS I READ

I think it’s also important to mention on this “B for blogging” day that I read A LOT of blogs. I use Google Reader to subscribe to the RSS feeds for the blogs that I want to follow. There are lots of other tools that can be used, of course, but I like Google Reader because it’s a well organized option that allows me to easily share what I like with my Google Buzz contacts and then with my Twitter and Facebook friends from there.

I read crochet blogs every single day. I love them, I devour them, I couldn’t even list all of them (although lots are in the sidebar of my crochet blog if you’re interested). Other types of blogs that I read regularly include:

• Design blogs (fashion, interior, architecture)
• Weburbanist and Webecoist
• Strange news blogs
• Science news blogs
• Blogs about San Francisco
• Friends’ blogs
• Blogs about writing, SEO and blogging
• Tech new blogs, specifically mobile phone news

And then lots of random other blogs that I just fell in love with for one reason or another. I read blogs more than I read anything else although I try to read books daily as well. What can I say, maybe this post should have waited for R for Reader.

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