Blogging 101

NewBCamp - Blogging 101 - 2/8/09

For those who attended my Blogging 101 session at NewBCamp, I used Free Mind, a mind-mapping software to present the topics and links as we needed them. This document contains all the text and links of the Free Mind document.

Why blog?

• What is your message?
• What is your goal?
• Who is your audience?
• Think about these questions before you create your blog

Build your network

• Find blogs that interest you
• Via search
• via RSS Reader
• via Blogroll

• Use an RSS Reader

• Read blogs that interest you
• Comment on those blogs
• Generate a conversation

Observe "blogger behavior" / "netiquette" -

• http://www.albion.com/netiquette/

Answer the questions to "Why blog?"

Blogger software

Blogger- http://www.blogger.com/

Wordpress -http://wordpress.org/

RSS Reader

• Web based

Google reader -http://www.google.com/reader/
Bloglines -http://www.bloglines.com/

• Desktop based

RSSOwl -http://www.rssowl.org/
FeedDemon -http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/FeedDemon/
BlogBridge -www.blogbridge.com/

Analytics

Google Analytics -http://www.google.com/analytics/
StatCounter -http://www.statcounter.com/
SiteMeter -http://sitemeter.com/

Pictures

Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/
Picassa - http://www.picasaweb.google.com/

Video

YouTube -http://www.youtube.com/

Network/groups

Google groups - http://groups.google.com/
Yahoo groups - http://groups.yahoo.com/
NING - http://www.ning.com/
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/

LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/
MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/
Twitter - http://twitter.com/login

Other Resources

• Robin Good's listing of best online collaboration tools

• Problogger tips

• Steve Garfield sets up a blog in class

• David Fischer on Audio vs Video podcast

• Liz Strauss on blogger best practices

This is a sample of the many links you can use to start blogging.