how to create a blog and use a web site for your personal brand
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This is part of a series of presentations given by BouncBack St Louis workshop in September 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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Agenda The web site becomes your resume What about blogs What about Twitter?
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Become master of your domain
No, not that kind of domain!
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The Internet domain! You need your own dot com! Remember my business card?
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Why a domain?It is all about
branding!
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Hosting your Web site You need a Web server A hosting provider (different from
domain provider), also called a registrar
Web browser to control and configure And content!
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Cheap hosting providers
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Why blogs are a better Web site
No programming required Easy to make frequent updates Easy to quickly change the
appearance of your pages Automatic posting of your content to
Google’s search index
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The blog IS your Web site Make it your first and in some cases
your only Web presence It is very simple to setup!
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Use blog hosting providers
Wordpress.com
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Google juice!
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Ties into LinkedIn External Web sites Wordpress blogs Twitter feed
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List your Web sites Use the “other” choice Also can put a 4th in “Interests”
This is what it will look like on screen:
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Twitter connection
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Good luck with your blog!
David Strom(310) [email protected]://strominator.comhttp://webinformant.tvSlides available:http://slideshare.net/
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