On Saturday, September 24, Jeff Bennett and I are co-teaching a Blogging Boot Camp at High Tech Maui. We’ve combined elements from our past blogging workshops with some new material to present a real world approach to blogging from soup to nuts. Should be fun. Hope you’ll join us.
Topics include:
- Introduction to Blogging
- Why blog
- Etiquette
- Website = Blog
- Do’s and Don’t’s
- Blog software options (WordPress, Posterous, Tumblr, Blogger, Typepad, Drupal…)
- Hosting your own blog vs free blogging services
- Blogging Workflow
- Basic blog post
- Photography blogs
- Video blogs
- Organizing, categorizing, tags, sticky posts, featured posts, etc.
- Content Ideas
- Coming up with ideas to blog about
- Based on nuts of bolts of business
- Photos, videos
- Constantly answering questions (FAQ)
- Timing
- Rhythm, consistency
- Posting times
- Responding to comments, commenting on other blogs
- Types of comments
- Measurements and Metrics
- Google Analytics
- Feedburner
- WordPress stats
- SEO
- Autoposting
- Strategy
- Posterous
- Networked Blogs
- Facebooks
- Basic of setting up a blog in WordPress
This workshop will consist of presentation material as well as hands-on time to assist participants with their existing blogs or setting up a new blog. We’ll also go through some exercises to help students brainstorm practical ideas they can apply to their own blogs.
Laptops are welcome but not mandatory. (This is not a follow-along workshop.)
Date: Saturday, September 24, 2011
Time: 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Location: Malcolm Center, 1305 Holopono St., Suite 1, Kihei
Cost: $65
Seating limited to 30
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