Tips for Geneablogger Writers and Readers … actually should be called Tips for Every Reader or Writer of Blogs, as it is actually for everyone who reads and/or writes blog posts, which obviously includes those in the geneablogger scene, but this goes far beyond just them.

From my two or so years that I’ve now been blogging, through my various blogs, these are tips that I have picked up along the way. You may agree with some, and not others. And others may have more tips to add. By all means feel free to do so.

FOR WRITERS
Tip 1. Allow comments on your blog.
Yes you will get spam, but wouldn’t you like to know that someone enjoyed your post so much they wanted to comment on it. Or if someone has googled and has come up with the name of your great grandpa who you wrote a post about a year ago, and they wanted to get in touch with you – don’t make it hard for them to do so. It’s off putting.

One of the highlights of the recent 3rd History & Genealogy Cruise was the ‘Social Media Panel’. Chaired by Jill Ball, and with Shauna Hicks, Louis Kessler, Helen Smith and myself as panelists, Jill asked us questions regarding social media, which each of us answered.

As we all use social media differently it gave those those who came to this presentation an overview of how it can be used in many ways.

Now Jill has turned the social media questions into a geneameme, and is asking those in the geneasphere to get some answers to the questions that she posed to the panel.

1. Tell us about your favourite social media tool and why you like it.
During the panel I did answer Twitter to this, which is partially correct. I actually have fav’s for different things. For general interaction I like Facebook, for more indepth stories there are

It seems to be a bit of a tradition (at least down here in Australia), that when we have major genealogy events, we like to get a photo of all the geneabloggers attending.  I can imagine that if they did this in the US, just about everyone attending would be invovled as there’s just so many more social media nuts over there – but our little geneablogger group is growing, and at the recent 3rd History & Genealogy Cruise we even roped in some overseas visitors who are geneabloggers too.

Firstly to caption the photo above:
Back row L-R is: Sharon Fritz, Paul Milner, Louis Kessler, Shauna Hicks
Front row L-R has: Lee-Anne Hamilton, Linda Elliott, Jill Ball, Alona Tester, Helen Smith

When I started this blog (Lonetester HQ), it was simply created so that I can have my own place to share my own  genealogy, as opposed to the genealogy blog posts I write for work (Genealogy & History News). So when I received advice from Shauna Hicks (who just happens to be one of Australia’s top genealogy experts) nominating my blog for a “Blog of the Year Award” I was simply blown away.

Shauna writes: “Lone Tester HQ, Alona Tester – for her family history through the alphabet challenge which inspired many to tell their family stories”.