blogging for beginners: get writing
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This presentation gives tips to help beginners get into the style of writing for blogs, with examples of lots of different kinds of posts to help break writer's block.TRANSCRIPT
1Get writing!
2 Make it scannable• Lists • Formatting – bold, italics• Headings and sub-headings• Pictures• Blockquotes• Short paragraphs http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/20/scannable-content/
3 Imagine you are copywriting
Sell the post to your readerSave the time of your users
4 Increase your vocabulary
• Lists of useful links• Opinion piece• Expert advice• News• Build towards an
event• Report on an event
• 5 top ways to... • Promote a new
resource• Tell a story/case
study• “Reply” to another
persons blog post• Q&A/agony aunt
5 Task: 15 minutes to write a blog post• Take your topic and style cards• If you are stuck, use the “20 Blog
Topics To Get You Unstuck” sheet!• Preview your post• Don’t publish – schedule for 16.00
6 Pictures• http://www.flickr.com• http://www.librarything.com• http://search.creativecommons.org/ • Or use your own...
Please check copyright and licensing!
See also: Creative Commons licences
7 Embedding• Slides - http://www.slideshare.net/
– Copy and paste code into HTML tab• Video – use embed button
8 Write fastHow to write fast– Know what you want to say– Pick a format– Write it all in one go– Review, correct and publish. http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/12/30/how-to-write-
fast/
9 Write fast• Cheat – Ask others in your team to
contribute posts or quotes• Write or die...
http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html
• Practice
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Keep learning...• Get tips from other blogs...
– Problogger• Subscribe to other careers blogs• Join Twitter• Interact with other bloggers
– Post comments
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RSS readers• Google Reader
http://www.google.com/reader/ • Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/ • Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com/ • Pageflakes
http://www.pageflakes.com/