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The Future of Aussie Book Bloggers
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Well, first, I think you'd have to see how many people would participate. Then you'd have to get enough money up to rent a location for it, a place for that meeting, possible food ideas maybe. Also you'd need a time and date.Those are probably the basic things :)
I know I'd definitely want to go if we can get it to happen :D
But are there any steps we can take to build a better Aussie Book Blogging community before reaching the stage of a Aussie Book Bloggers Conference?
I would be willing to consider going to such an event - would have to look at location and costs. Never seem to get the super cheap airfares out of Darwin!! I think as a group we need to get more organised and maybe become friends online to develop the urge to meet each other offline. Not sure how to encourage friendship. Other than by all chatting here - visiting each others blogs maybe mentioning each others blogs that sort of stuff :)
I do like that idea Sally, I think we need to build a better blogger community, were we visit eachothers blogs and make sure we make comments on their posts.
Definitely, though I have no idea about how to get that done, I mean heck the facebook group has less than 15 members in it.... :/
I have a reader application on my iPad. I add my 'favourite' blogs to it to follow them and check out the posting each day. I can also arrange them in groups. Right now I just have book blogs as a group but could put the Aussie blogs in their own group. Still working out how to comment from my ap but is easy enough to flick to the Internet proper to comment.I have other groups of blogs as well, that cover other interests such as cooking, authors, frugal living etc.
My reader I check everyday where as goodreads comes in as frequently, twitter is a couple of times a day and Facebook is maybe once a day if that.
That sounds like a good idea Sally, what is the app you use? I'm trying hard to make sure I comment on most of the blogs in the group.
That sounds like a good idea. Maybe we could also guest blog on each other's blogs? For example, maybe for those of us who write book review blogs, we could ask other bloggers to write a review of their favourite Aussie book for our blog? And I just realised that on my blog I'm exploring what makes certain writing Australian, and I could definitely write about some Aussie blogs if anyone would be interested. Aussie bloggers definitely count as Aussie writing!
I have FeeddlerPro. Which is the paid version - but I had the free version for a while. I had the google one for a long time until it went + on me. So use this now.
Sally906 wrote: "I have FeeddlerPro. Which is the paid version - but I had the free version for a while. I had the google one for a long time until it went + on me. So use this now."Thanks Sally, I need to fix up my Google reader account first.
Raelke wrote: "That sounds like a good idea. Maybe we could also guest blog on each other's blogs? For example, maybe for those of us who write book review blogs, we could ask other bloggers to write a review of..."
I'm a fan of guest blogging but I think everyone would want to use their best content on their own blogs. But I'm sure that would be a great way to build readerships.
As for me I'm happy to consider guest blogging if I have to topic to write that would match their blog well.
I'm just wondering maybe we can plan a meet up at one of the writers festivals next year. Maybe even contact the festival to see if they can help promote it. Maybe that could progress to a book bloggers convention. Similar to the book bloggers convention that's apart of BEA. We can start small and aim for something similar.
Oooh I like the sound of that! Could you send me the link(s) for the writers festivals....Senns how I've only just immigrated here I don't know them lol
Would anyone be interested in writing a guest blog about their favourite Australian book on my blog? I've been trying to think up different segments to run apart from my own discovery of Australian books, and thought this could be a good way to find out some favourites of other bloggers and authors.
my thoughts are to do something like ArmchairBEA but like an Australian Book Bloggers week as a way to start building a community. Then maybe organising a meet up at one of the writers festivals next year (most likely Sydney or Brisbane) maybe see if the festival will help promote it and even turn it into a yearly event, building from a meetup to a conference.
The Melbourne one is very good - went down a few years ago and had such fun. Met MargReads there - I wasn't a blogger then but met up with a group of Aussie mystery readers that had formed a little social group offline to an online group.
There's an Aussie mystery readers group?
We are all Aussies in a US based yahoo group called 4MA - For Mystery Addicts. There is an Oz Mystery Readers yahoo group as well which is not very active but plods along
Michael wrote: "my thoughts are to do someone like ArmchairBEA but like an Australian Book Bloggers week as a way to start building a community. Then maybe organising a meet up at one of the writers festivals next..."That sounds like a good idea Michael!
Haha well that is another matter...what do you think it would involve ie what "events"/posts would we need to organise?
Belle wrote: "Haha well that is another matter...what do you think it would involve ie what "events"/posts would we need to organise?"I think start with an Australian Book Bloggers week and run it similar to ArmchairBEA where we have a different topic each day.
That is the first step
When would be a good time of year to do it?
According to the Big Book Blogger map I would say Brisbane. But not many Aussies have been involved with that.http://www.oakenbookcase.com/2012/06/...
Well I'm in Adelaide area lol, so we'd definitely have to pick a place that would be good for others to fly into and what not
I'd love it if it was in Brisbane, lol! We are kind of spread out all over the country though, so I guess it would come down to where we could get a venue etc.
Hi, I think linking up to a main site like an Aussie version of armchair bea is an awesome idea. It would let everyone identify other Aussie book blogs they may not know about and with different topics to discuss daily or weekly we could all get to know each other a lot better before trying to organise a more formal meetup.
Agree, I think that would be a good idea.
I'm keen, any Brisbane people interested?
I'm in Brisbane and happy to help if needed :)
Kayleigh wrote: "the Brisbane writers fest has just announced a call for collaborative work for next year's festival. if everyone is interested in doing some sort of blogger meet up/ event then maybe we should look..."I'm in Toowoomba, not to far from Brissie!
Marcia wrote: "Kayleigh wrote: "the Brisbane writers fest has just announced a call for collaborative work for next year's festival. if everyone is interested in doing some sort of blogger meet up/ event then may..."
Achievable for me too only a few hours away
Achievable for me too only a few hours away
Sally906 wrote: "I have FeeddlerPro. Which is the paid version - but I had the free version for a while. I had the google one for a long time until it went + on me. So use this now."I'll look that one up. It sounds good.
Wish I'd found this group earlier. I would have been on the idea of a Book Blogging Conference so fast my head would've spun. Now we've had NBBF14 and I thought we should revisit this topic.
Suzie wrote: "Wish I'd found this group earlier. I would have been on the idea of a Book Blogging Conference so fast my head would've spun. Now we've had NBBF14 and I thought we should revisit this topic."I def think we should encourage more publishers to do things like NBBF14 if we can...
I love that NBBF14 happened but being arranged by one publishing house is a little worrying. I would like to see it become independent or open to all publishers in the future, but one step at a time.
and more notice - some of us have to save up to go
Jennie wrote: "and more notice - some of us have to save up to go"I need to get leave approved from work and all those hoops, so more notice would be great
I love the fact you've all got the same ideas as me. It's been worrying me that it's only one publisher and that there's still other publishers out there and the fact we're all mentioning Penguin Random House big time is making us look biased.What I'd really like to see is an independent Book Bloggers Conference with input from multiple publishers both large and small.
End point would be hopefully an Aussie Book Bloggers Conference, but how do we work towards something like that?
Thoughts?