How to Blog Series 3. Writing good posts » | 4. Blog Networking | 5. Managing comments » So, now you have a blog. What do you want to do with it? You can use it as an online publishing tool to create a website and put content on the internet. But you would be…
(Attending the session: Building your audience with Elise Bauer (Simply Recipes, Learning Movable Type) – blogged live by Whitney) Three pillars of building an audience: create great content, engage your community, use technology. Content The most successful blogs are useful, entertaining, timely, or a combination of the three. Did I mention useful? You need to…
How to Blog Series « 2. Start blogging | 3. Writing good posts | 4. Managing comments » If you regularly visit blogs, you know that blog posts come in all shapes and sizes. Posts can be long, medium, or short (sometimes really short, like Jim Henley’s renowned one-word post that has collected 1104 comments…
How to Blog Series « 1. Blog Basics | 2. Start blogging | 3. Writing good posts » Typically, people get into blogging by reading blogs. Most blog readers are not bloggers, they just enjoy visiting and reading/listening/viewing content that others create. And this is great: blogs need readers. Some people, after lurking for while,…
I receive fairly frequently questions about blogging from friends and through my site. When I was new to blogging I realized that it wasn’t easy to locate basic instructions on blogs and blogging. Most of the articles I found assumed some level of knowledge I didn’t have at the time. For this reason, I’ve decided…