Happy Monday everyone! I've decided that once weekly in 2013, I'll write a post called Blog Tip with one great tip weekly to inspire all of you lovely blogger friends out there! I'm not going to tell you which day though because often a tip lands in my lap and it's so good that I don't want to wait until a set weekday to share it. BUT you can expect my Blog Tip column to run once weekly going forward starting with today. But first.... Good morning everyone! How are you?

I had an exciting weekend with 16 Blogging Your Way Studio students who came to my home to spend the weekend with fellow teacher, Steffi Luxat and I - and needless to say... I'm so pumped up about blogging! It's amazing how we "pro" bloggers need the budding pro bloggers to fuel us as much as they rely on us to teach them new tricks and fresh ideas about blogging. The relationship is just one big giving circle and I really love that about teaching. I cannot believe that next year will be the fourth year that I've been teaching workshops on blogging and creativity and each time I wrap one up I can't wait to get started on the next online class or in-person event. I'm already gearing up for our March Blogging Your Way e-class AND thinking to do another workshop here at home in the Spring before I go on my book tour. This is truly what I was meant to do and the more I do it, the more I realize I'm right where I need to be.

Okay now for my super cool blog tip. There's this cool new website that I found today called Tout. It's really going to take off, I can feel it, and I've just uploaded two videos to show you how it works. Tout gives you 15 seconds of video run time to film pieces of your life and share them online. I think this is in incredible way to reach your readers if you are a blogger. You simply download the app, shoot a 15 second video and it uploads in about 60 seconds or less, then you save it to your Tout account. I've enabled my account to push my videos to my Facebook and Twitter accounts upon publishing, so I can easily connect with everyone online simply and quickly. I'm sure this could be a bit addictive for some, but I'm going to try to share only valuable and inspirational content using Tout because there is already so much rubbish floating around out there and I don't want to contribute to more "noise".

I think if we use Tout with that intention, it could be a really fab way to connect with your friends, family and blog readers. I'm already thinking about some creative ways to begin using it, what do you think, do you like the idea of sharing 15 second videos and if so, how do you imagine using it or what would you show?

Loads of love to you all today - I'll be back later on to share some views from our workshop this weekend, I just need to sort through my photos!