Nov 14, 2016 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for feedback, advice, and blogging camaraderie.

Have you just published a new post and are dying for some feedback? Are you redesigning your blog and could use some layout or design advice from your more seasoned peers?

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  3. Hello all!

    Today I posted a “what I’m reading” update with an emphasis on what I read to learn outside of class.

    Coming up this week I’ll talk about why I don’t want children – I’m at the age where people are starting to have them, and it’s a weird time.

    Also, I’ve updated my about page and menus; feel free to let me know what you think! Is my site easier to navigate now?

    Looking forward to reading everyone’s posts this week!

    http://Www.missionincomplete95.wordpress.com

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  4. Hello everyone! We are a blog of 5 college girls and we would love to get some feedback or tips about our blog. Our goal is to spread love everywhere we go and to give some life tips that we’ve discovered through our experiences. We would love to partner with some other bloggers or find ways to publicize our blog a little more! https://thisagapelove.wordpress.com/

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  6. Once again Men and Ladymen I bring you good tidings from Wales here in the UK. My anme is The 6 Million P Man and I am a photographer and blogger, and thus I run a photography based blog. Give it a look, give it a like, give it a hate if you want, I don’t mind just have a look and tell me what you think as fresh eyes are always welcome.

    Here’s a couple of recent posts to get your teeth stuck into but feel free to browse at any more 🙂

    Some landscape from my home town of Cardiff:

    Roath Lake – Autumn 2

    Some Street Photography taken during a trip to Italia in the Sumemr:

    Street Photography – Olympus OM-D EM-5; 66

    Thanks in advance

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  11. Oh I love Community Pool. I look forward to finding new blogging friends and treasures every week. My one tip for today would be just make sure you are utilizing tags as much as possible. Oh, and make sure to proofread your post for spelling and grammatical errors before clicking publish! Good luck to all!

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  13. Hello everyone!!!
    So, would you like to read what I write? Of course, no because your time is valuable but trust me, do visit few of my posts and I bet you’ll not leave my blog without learning anything…
    So, feedbacks and suggestions are cordially invited…
    🙂
    Tata, Bye…

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  14. Hello Ben!
    Take a look at my writer blog as I recently made the header. I love it but what do bloggers, readers, or others think? Also, scroll down to my September newsletter post and take a peek. I’m doing May, September, and December newsletters as a new writer. Quick and easy read, people can check it out and move on.
    Thanks!

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    1. It’s a nice image. My one suggestion would be to somehow display your name more prominently. At first I wasn’t sure what the book covers were – it was only after I looked closely that I could see the author’s name and realized they were all your own books! My initial impression was more that it was a book review site, rather than an author’s site.

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  16. Hello again, all of you bloggers and blog followers out there! Beginning today, I had just begun my multi-part, one-time-story adaptation of one of the most time-honored and beloved fairy tales of all time, “A Girl Named Cinderella”, in celebration of not only #NationalBlogPostingMonth, but also as a nice, heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you who have helped made #KALEIDOSCOPE the very best blog there ever is for the past 4 years(it has just celebrated its 4th birthday this past Saturday!). Plus, with Thanksgiving being just around the corner, here are plenty of ideas that might help make you Thanksgiving meal this year so very special, as well as a nice little post on why we should be sincere at Thanksgiving, and all throughout the year! Is this going to be a pretty good week, or what? So, I very much hope that you can join me for this very special week of following the story of Cinderella; And stay tuned to KALEIDOSCOPE in the coming weeks for very special Christmas posts! For now, visit my blog at http://www.j2w7.wordpress.com! KALEIDOSCOPE:It’s a Great, Big, COLORFUL World!-JW

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  18. Hi everyone! I don’t have a new post particularly, but I’d like your help anyway.
    I have an environmental blog, http://www.eco-intelligent.com. It’s basically a science blog, and I want to explain ecological and environmental processes in a way that non-experts can understand.
    I’d really appreciate it if you could read a few posts and tell me anything that will help me simplify the content (if required).
    The feedback is really appreciated! Thank you in advance 🙂

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    2. Hi – lots to go through on this blog but the one item I did not see was an explanation of tools and models used to come to the scientific consensus. That’s a big subject in itself.
      I’m following now and will try to pop in – I’m. Wet interested in going through your posts on environmental impacts statements.
      I’m a hiker so I’m loving nature so this subject is very important to me.

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      1. Thank you so much for taking the time!
        Understood, I’ll come with a post/posts on modelling and scientific procedures. I never thought of this before, thanks!
        I’ll be delighted if you find things useful in my blog 🙂 Do keep reading and giving suggestions.

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  19. Hi all!
    I would love to get feedback on my latest few posts. I tend to be a very personal blogger, so they are intentionally “deep”.

    I want to do a series of “Monday Joys” or more daily journaling – considering I don’t post that frequently due to lack of content. I want to just simply express my days in the creative way that they come to my mind.

    https://lauratheleo.com/2016/11/14/monday-joys-1114/

    I would love to know what you all think. I’m super excited to have discovered this “pool” and look forward to reading all your work!

    – Laura

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  23. Hi all! So great to see so many people here already!

    Design is proven to be the choice between if a reader leaves your sites in seconds or stays and becomes your best customer.
    In other words, design is important. So, today, I’m going through step-by-step, how to re-vamp your blog to make it look stunning. I will show you how to create mood boards, colour palettes to match your blog content as well as such as consitency. Check it out here:
    https://mybookylife.wordpress.com/2016/11/11/how-designed-blog/

    IF YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO DESIGN YOUR BLOG FOR FREE, contact me here:
    https://lifeasshania.wordpress.com/blogger-mall/customdesign/

    This over at Life As Shania’s blog @ The Blogger Mall. It is till my shops and designs just hosted on her blog and mall!
    Happy blogging!!!

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  25. Hey all.
    I’ve been writing some fiction for a good while now, and a friend of mine has pushed me to put it somewhere in public for others to see. So I’ve been humoring him for about a week now.
    He likes what I’m writing. Another friend thinks it’s terrible. I guess we could use the community to break the tie, tell us which of the two is in the right.
    And if it turns out you genuinely enjoy the stuff, or if it was so bad it gave you a good laugh, then you’re welcome I guess.
    https://utangard.wordpress.com/

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  26. As we have seen in this election, facts don’t matter. Reporting doesn’t matter. Writing and blogging don’t matter.

    People just believe what they believed all along. We ain’t making no damn difference.

    So I am giving up blogging. I can put my time to better use by getting a PhD.

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  28. Hi everyone, it’s been 4 months that I started blogging but haven’t got much feedback on my posts. Do visit my blog
    https://lifeateacher.wordpress.com I write poems, a little about places I’ve visited and experiences. I would love 1 day to wake up and find atleast 50 bloggers liking my blog…its a really small wish but as of now even that seems big😊

    Hope to hear from you’ll soon.

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    1. Hi Smitha, I really liked reading some of your posts. As you might be able to tell from our name, I especially loved your nostalgia post. Your description and memories of your grandmother were beautiful. It made me want to be in the kitchen with her as she cooked. My favorite part: “Memories then need to be engraved in the heart, etched in the mind or utmost carried in a backpack. Roots need to be hard-coded to have an innate sense of belonging and identity and a soul that is nourished -not shallow, blurred and lost in the noise and chaos around the world for that is what makes us…our roots!” Your prose reads like poetry. Beautiful!

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