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To CELEBRATE Father's Day 2011 we'd like to share our current Top 10 Dad Bloggers with you.
Each of these amazing blogs provides us with a glimpse into what the relationship of father means. We find the joy, the tears, the laughter the heartache and the love and a dedication that is fraught with mishaps.
The "shelf life" of a dad blog is less than that of almost any other type of blog. The reason why is quite apparent once you start to read them. A large number of dads begin their blogs with a sense of excitement, fervor and many out of sheer terror. The new arrival(s) has an almost immedidate impact on dad. The tendency for overwhelm, fatigue and daddy "wear and tear" that takes place is evident by both the style and content of blogging and even more apparent based on the number of new dad bloggers that quickly take a "bloggy vacation."
This clearly is no measure of how great these dads are at fatherhood yet it is for this very reason that the following 10 Dads are to be given even kudos as both fantastic "bloggers" and outstanding dads.
We hope you enjoy this blogging tribute to dads around the globe.
A place for dads and parents to collaborate on fatherhood and parenting topics and read articles offering advice, tips and tricks from a father of a toddler and a baby. Lots of articles and observations served up with a side of humor. Come join us at the dad jam and start jamming today!
Improvising Fatherhood is a blog about the comedy of being a dad. Nate Smith is an improvisational comedian, a husband, and a father. He's not sure which is hardest.
A Dude enjoying the transition from Dude to Dad. A self-proclaimed Neo-Hippie and The Dude of the House for a young family of four, an ever-growing herd of animals, a blossoming landscape, Earth-friendly living, all sorts of household projects, and a healthy addiction to surf.
Ranting about being a man at home with two ShortThings. Asking the eternal question: What is it about kids and the word Poop? All this plus tales of Adversity, Hilarity, and Humility from the damaged mind of the Big Bad Daddy.
A general blog about daily life from my perspective. I will fill things up with comments on my day, upcoming plans or just my opinion on the goings on around the world...I hope you enjoy
It's time to concentrate on what I know best (or as you'll see, least) and talk about being a dad in a world where moms are much more important. Where mom have a much better idea of what they're doing with a child and where moms don't make babies watch hockey. A month behind in blogging though we'll let him slide as there's a hockey game going on somewhere.
'm a dork. I was a dork in high school, but I hated my label so I did everything humanly possibly to de-dork myself. I wore "fashionable" 80s clothes (ick), I bought a car, I even ditched my dork friends for friends lower on the dork-o-meter. I now realize that all this accomplished was to cement my own place in the dork universe. I am now resigned to my fate.
I’m a Dad. That’s how I define myself at the moment. Not too long ago I defined myself as a Husband, but now I’m a Proud Dad and a Fine Husband. And maybe someday, I will get the title of “Good Dad” – that’s the goal, anyway.
I currently enjoy an active readership and have the good fortune of being featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, FOX Business, CNN.Com, the Chicago Sun-Times and Reuters. I am also a Parenting & Family Columnist for the LA Examiner.
A blog from an expecting first time father and later a first time father. All opinions are mine so please don't judge my lovely wife on the things I say...she might disagree with some stuff too..
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My Take on the Book
I was on blogger for the first two years of blogging (on my main dadofdivas.com) and found it to be very easy to use but a bit limiting to what I could do to customize it without extensive html knowledge. Thus, this past year I made the switch to be self-hosted on wordpress. Needless to say I was excited, while terrified as well as I knew that this would be a change and at the same time, a move forward. In my transition I heard about this book and thought it would be a great resource, and I was not disappointed.
This book allows all wordpress users a glimpse into what wordpress is and what it can be. It walks the reader step-by-step through detailed descriptions on how to first download and install it or how to use the "one click" method. After this the book helps you understand how to post and include images. This is an important section as the wordpress platform is a bit different than other platforms (at least different than blogger). It also covers things like widgets and templates as well as provides a good overview of HTML, PHP and CSS and how you can use it to modify your sight.
There is so much in this book that has been helpful to me thus far and I still have a few chapters to go. I hightly recommend this book as it is easy to understand and helps you truly move into wordpress more confidently and gives you the tools to make your wordpress site a strong one that readers will want to come back to again and again!
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About the Book
What's the one common factor among entrepreneurs who create and grow successful online businesses today? Attention. They know what kind they need. They know how to get it. They know how to maintain it. And they know how to make it pay over the long term. Want your business to get the high quality customer engagement it needs to thrive? Attention! This Book Will Make You Money is the only guide you need.
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My Take on the Book
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One of the things that I was impressed with in the book was that he encourages and challenges the reader to reach out to him and he promises to contact back and find time to help in any way that he ca. This seems like a large task, but I commend him for giving back to his readership!
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