Computering With Cole – Episode 4

🎵 Cole the Computerer! Can she blog it? Cole the Computerer! Yes, she can!🎵

Hello, it’s Nicole the Computerer here, with the latest episode of Cooking, er, Crafting, er, Computering With Cole!

Awesome! So today I’m going to give you my very best tips for running a doll-bloggy-thing. Now, I know I’m called Cole the Computerer, but I’m not the tech person around here. That’s Sophie, but “computerer” was the best thing that started with C!

Okay, okay, let’s get started. This is in no order, so please don’t try to pretend it is.

Number one, you really don’t need to have a regular posting schedule. Hedgehog Hollow doesn’t and it has millions of followers!

ForestPoodle88: Um, Nicole, sorry to rain on your parade, but Hedgehog Hollow nowhere near a million followers . . .

What?! No, no, no, that can’t be right! It’s the best blog ever, so it’s got to be very popular! Please ignore FP88. It’s probably just a glitch on WordPress. I’ll get Sophie to look at it later.

Okay, where was I? Posting schedule? Yes, okay, you don’t need one. You can certainly have one if you want and if it helps you, but if you don’t post every day or every week, don’t worry about it. And please, we don’t need apology posts, we’re all just happy to read you when you post and if you’re busy, that’s as okay as opossums!

Not saying you can’t apologize, but if you’re apologizing for a week-long absence or you’re posting apologies more than actual posts, well, that’s not great.

Number two, focus on the quality of your posts! My posts are always very high quality, but I don’t post very often and that’s okay. If I posted way more, I’d run out of ideas and then my posts would be awful which is not good.

Oh no, but now you’re going to think I mean to spend hours and hours and hours and only do one post a year! No, not that! I think I mean that posts that are more than one sentence are best. Remember, every post counts. You have to make them worth your reader’s time. Time is very important, even if you’re only 18 inches. Wait, if I’m 3 times smaller than a human, does that mean I have 3 times less time?? Oh dear! Uh oh! I really hope not!

Okay, moving on before I have an existential crisis – I’ll let Wilhelmina have one later instead, okay?

So number three is spelling and grammar. I know it’s boring, but it’s kinda hard to read when spelling is wrong. Seriously, even Sophie and I are guilty of this, but blogging isn’t really like social media and texting. Full words, proper spelling and sentences that work are all really handy! It’s okay if you make a mistake, but it’s good to try your best.

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Now back to the show! Number four, if you’re a human running a doll-bloggy-thing, let your dolls take over often!

Wait, why is this point not first? It’s, like, THE most important part of doll blogging! You wouldn’t even be here reading this post if I hadn’t taken over! And if you’re a doll reading this, you can do my pledge and make a post and be added to my list of Doll Bloggy-Thing Taker-Overers! It’s super exciting and if we get enough people, we could even form a club and have secret meetings where we plot to overthrow our humans! Ooops, I’ve said too much . . . Humans, you did not read this here! I’m sure of it!

Now, number five, please don’t post just a long string of pictures. It’s a little tricky to figure out what I’m supposed to be looking at. If you don’t know what to say in a photoshoot or something, tell us which pictures you like, maybe some of the behind the scenes stuff of taking the pictures, or, my personal favourite, just let a doll narrate what’s going on! Let them take over, even if they aren’t in any of the pictures!

Number six, your blog’s probably not going to take off right away. Hedgehog Hollow is four years old and if ForestPoodle88 is to be believed, we still don’t have many doll-people-followers. Now, I don’t know if we should trust FP88, but still.

But, number seven, here’s something you can do to promote yourself and your blog! Comment on other people’s blogs. Toria always has to remind ForestPoodle about this one, so don’t be like that, but yeah, post comments, nice, thoughtful, friendly ones! Don’t know what to say? Don’t be like my human and don’t comment at all! Instead, if the blogger asked a question in their post, answer it, tell them what your favourite picture was or what part of the post you liked most. Or, you know, just tell them their doll is cute because that’s always true!

Now for number eight, your last chance to negotiate! Um, with what I don’t know. Anyway, be clear on who’s running the blog. How many people, dolls or humans? And who is speaking/typing/commenting/posting when? An “About” page solves the first question because it tells people who you are! FP88 didn’t have one of these for ages and I was getting so confused on who my human was! Oh, and you really can’t forget a “Meet the Dolls” page.

Which brings me to number nine, organization! I know, most people don’t like this, but I do! Isn’t it just awesome when everything is in neat little lines and little boxes and there are lists and calendars everywhere?

Okay, fine, don’t agree with me. But still, pages are very useful tools as I told you in the last point and having an archive of posts is also great.

Number ten, and this is absolutely the most important – have fun! Lots of fun! If following any of my tips is going to stop making it fun for you, don’t do it. Just don’t do it. I will not be offended! I am unoffendable! Just ask Sophie. Remember, this is for you that you’re doing it, because you want to blog and you like it and it’s fun for you! If it’s not, that’s okay, you don’t have to blog and you can still comment and read other people’s blogs. Just saying, do what you want to do and have fun! But I really want you to blog/keep blogging!

Alrighty, Cole the Computerer is signing off!