Protect Yourself from Unwanted Blogging & Web Site Viruses

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Sunbelt Software. All opinions are 100% mine.

How many times has this happened to you? You find yourself browsing through a ton of web sites and then close out your browser to find a ton of popups and various other garbage that has spawned up while you were hitting various different sites. To make things even worse, some web sites will spawn windows that won’t allow you to close your browser without installing some garbage software or spyware.

There’s no doubt about it… new spyware and auto downloads are getting more and more advanced and it’s taking over and destroying everyone’s computers and there is no end in sight. Unfortunately the web sites and blogs that have this garbage coming from their sites usually have little to no content of value, and are just out there to make a quick buck, while the site visitor may end up having to buy a new computer once it’s infected and destroyed.

One solution that many are turning to, is to have anti virus and anti spyware software always running on their computers to block any unwanted garbage from coming through. VIPRE Antivirus software is one company that specializes in this area. Whether you are working from a home pc or need a full business solution, they have a package for you.

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VIPRE wanted to give away a year of full access to their anti virus software with the users of BloggingTips.com. Though I only have one license code to give away, I thought it would be good to give it out to someone that really wants the software package, valued at $29.95. If you would like the full license code for Vipe antivirus, simply download a 30 days trial of their software and answer the question below in the comments section. The first person with the correct answer will receive the license code:

What award did GFI Vipre Antivius win for their 100% Virus Detection software? (Leave answer in comments section)

If you are not protected with your own antivirus software, I highly recommend that you download a free 30 day trial of Vipre. The cost of not protecting yourself could be detrimental and you could potentially lose everything on your computer.

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Temporary Blogs: Blogs as Stepping Stones

Lately I’ve been chatting to a number of bloggers whose blogs have dropped off the radar. I’d been disappointed (as a reader) that they’d stopped blogging and I’d secretly been thinking of it as a “failure” of sorts. But I was reminded by those bloggers that in many ways that they’d actually succeeded with their blogs and that stopping blogging was a sign of that success.

In this video I explain more.

Notes

• View this video full size (in HD) here
• Video shot on a Panasonic Lumix DMC GF1 (aff) – here’s why I use that camera to shoot my videos.

Transcription of “The Five C’s of Blogging: Reflections on Eight Years of Blogging”

I’ve had this video transcribed below for those who prefer to get it that way. The transcription provided by The Transcription People.

I was having a chat to a blogger that I really admired and was writing some incredible content a couple of years ago. I was chatting to her a couple of weeks ago now, and she kind of dropped out of the blogosphere and wasn’t really writing any more—just the occasional post.

I used to really love her content, and it was almost like a daily experience of wonderment and learning just logging in to see what she was writing. And then she kind of disappeared; one of her posts said that she’d just got a new job, and the posts kind of disappeared after that.

And I was always disappointed in that; and I said to her, when we caught up for a coffee recently, “What happened to your blog? It was so great; it had so much potential.” And as we were chatting she said, “Well, I got a job. And the reason I started a blog was that, you know, I wanted to land a job, I was out of work, and the blog was never really going to be anything beyond an online résumé, a place for me to build my profile and build some credibility, and potentially meet some employers.”

And it kind of was interesting to me, because I’d always sort of seen it as a bit of a failure—as a disappointment—that she’d stopped blogging; but, the more I chatted to her, the more I realised that a temporary blog, a blog that just had the goal of landing her a job, is really an okay thing. And whilst it was disappointing for me as a reader that she disappeared, she actually had landed her dream job as a result of her blog.

It reminded me of another interaction that I had with a blogger who, off the back of his blog, launched just a very small piece of software. And it was a piece of software that really took off and got used a lot; and as a result of that software, he then went and launched another piece of software and another piece of software, and then ended up with a software company which employs ten to 15 people.

And I remember having this similar sort of conversation with him: “Why don’t you blog any more? Your blog was great; I loved it; I really found your ideas interesting.” And he reflected back to me that again, his blog was a means to another end—he was never going to be a professional blogger, that wasn’t his model; his model was to launch a software company, and he used his blog to do that.

And again, there’s a whole heap of stories I could probably tell along similar lines. And I guess these sort of conversations are reminding me that there’s not just one model for blogging and for making a living from blogging. And your blog doesn’t have to go for many, many years to be successful. If success for you is landing a job, or launching another company, your blog can actually be a stepping stone for you.

And whilst I’m disappointed that these people aren’t blogging anymore, I’m really excited that blogging is a medium that can be used to help people achieve their goals beyond having a successful blog.

This is just something I’ve been thinking about the last few days, and I’m interested to hear your comments. What’s the goal of your blog? Are you blogging for blogging to be the end, or is it a stepping stone to something else for you?

Love to hear your comments.

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