Blogging,Blogging Basics         72 comments

My college English students are all experimenting with blogging, and many of them want to know why. Here is guidance from previous posts on this blog: What is a blog and WHY should I do one? Why do people read blogs? What should your first blog post be about? Should you set up your own [...]

 Blogging,Blogging Basics         98 comments

Time for new student bloggers and the typical questions: “How do I get more readers?” and “How do I get people to comment?” My standard answers have been these three: 1)  Comment on other people’s blogs 2)  Announce your new posts on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn 3)  Add a user-friendly comment device [don't make commenters [...]

 Blogging,Blogging Basics         22 comments

What can I do to get my blog noticed? That question was answered in a blog April 25, 2009– two days after I first started my own blog — from Problogger.net, probably the best resource for info on blogging. “Adding comments on other blogs, especially the most popular ones, is a great way to build [...]

 Blogging,Blogging Basics         55 comments

  Yes, a blog is definitely a great way to promote a business online these days – now that everyone can become a publisher at NO cost, or a relatively low one. Anyone with an Internet connection can post his or her thoughts, opinions, and activities on the Global Whiteboard to be read and responded [...]

 Blogging,Blogging Basics,Sharisax Is Out There         9 comments

When deciding if you, too, should become a blogger, then tons of questions come to mind — and one of the first should be “Why do people read blogs?” After all, if you are going to spend time and energy writing on the Global Whiteboard, you do want readers. So your blog plan needs to [...]

 Blogging Basics         5 comments

NOTE: This article is being republished for my online students in the course Social Media for Journalists: Every new enterprise —  whether it’s a new project, new class, new relationship, or a new business — begins with some degree of Confusion. The key to getting past the initial uncertainties is to (a) silence your “fear” [...]

 Blogging Basics         11 comments

I love that question about writing the very first blog post: The thought was mine, as well as that of most of my blogging students. “I want my blog to be perfect, so I’d better take a whole lot of time to think about it, research it, draft it, write it, and revise it.” Did [...]

 Blogging Basics         20 comments

Many of my blogging students leave a workshop with all the confidence in the world, i.e., they’ve got a Blog Name and a new theme, and we’ve even put up one post with a photo. How to start a blog How to find a free fancy design for your blog But then they get home [...]

 Blogging,Blogging Basics,Social Media Marketing         8 comments

My most recent blogging workshop gathered together a dozen participants with a wide range of experience and understanding of social media — from some attendees who weren’t quite sure what a blog was to a few people with active, sophisticated websites. What they all shared, however, was the question about whether or not they should [...]

 Blogging,Blogging Basics         22 comments

Q: Why do you want to blog? A: Because it’s new and I want to do it. Q: What do you want to blog about? A: I don’t know. You tell me. Blogging is a power strategy for Content Marketing, i.e., communicating about yourself and/or your company to win friends, followers, clients, and customers. Six [...]

 Blogging,Blogging Basics,Guest Post,LinkedIn         1 comment

“Blogging is a way to share your thoughts, knowledge and information like never before.  We blog for many reasons which are  unique to us as people, but yet share a community that is a part of us.” — Suzanne Vara Suzanne Vara is one of my new online friends/collaborators/role models, whom I mentioned in a [...]

 Blogging,Blogging Basics,Personal Branding,PR 2.0,Social Media Marketing         7 comments

Lots of people considering social media strategies for business and personal reasons [like job seeking] may not fully appreciate the value of blogging. the TIME the SKILLS the COMMITMENT Is Blogging Worth all That? Absolutely, according to Dean Guadagni, Social Media Marketing/Director at Inner Architect and source for two of my previous articles — Networking [...]