
WordPress is The Bomb!
You read a lot about WordPress on this WordPress blog and you’ll be reading lots more. I’m convinced that WP is the easiest and best way for most of us to do our online publishing, and so does freelance website designer Todd E. Jones. A blogger and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
Blogging,Blogging Basics,Career Moves,Getting Started,PR 2.0,Personal Branding,Social Media Marketing,Social Media Strategy
6 commentsLots 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 …
The MORE of YOU, the better!
Tomorrow I’ll be meeting with 10-12 friends to teach them HOW TO START A BLOG.
The first question I could ask — but won’t — is WHY do they want to start a blog.
I won’t ask because I suspect two things: (1) most of them know …
Way back when . . . I first started blogging with WordPress.com in April of this year, I never changed my background from the Kubrick default theme. So for four months, my blog looked exactly like my husband Jack’s above.
HOWEVER, now that I know how EASY and how much FUN …
So you’re ready . . . to join the Blogosphere with your own individual views.
It’s not exactly a “piece of cake,” but as my many advisors told me — JUST DO IT, and you will learn a lot as you go.
GETTING STARTED is always the hardest part of a new …
Fathering a son: what's more important than that?
Many of my students have begun blogs, and their first questions seem to revolve around, “How do I get more readers?” and “How do I get people to comment?”
My standard answers have been these three:
* Comment on other people’s blogs
* Announce …
“Write your own blog post everyday, but spend twice as much time reading other people’s blogs
– and comment”
We had Sleepy Blogger, aka Robyn Tippins, come to PR class at San Francisco State, Tuesday, May 12, on the second last day of our exciting adventure into the World of All …