Blog Academy

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The Blog Space

Anatomy

Authenticity

Your Voice

Your Survival Kit

“Without partisan politics, cute kitty captions and celebrity crotcherazzi photos, nobody would know what a blog was.” –

Ike PigottAuthor of http://occamsrazr.com

Anatomy of a blog

What it isn’t:

What it isn’t:

What it isn’t:

….with a little religion, politics and how-to thrown in.

http://darmano.typepad.com/

http://www.henkterheide.com

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://www.aaronlazar.com/

Take a number – using online services

www.wordpress.comwww.blogger.comwww.typepad.com

Wordpress – the kinder, gentler blogging platform

Drupal – the big kahoonah, many bloggers may share one place to as home

Typepad – good, all purpose, more like Wordpress

Do-it-yourself software

Blogging Software + secret sauce:

Wordpress: Plugins (SEO, Aksemet, others)Drupal: Modules (Pathauto, mollom, others)

Generic: Adsense, Google Analytics, Twitter, ShareIt.

Feedburner (service)RSS feedsE-mail Subscribers – permission based

ONLY

Get people on board

Pictures:For pay: istockphoto.comFor free: Creative Commons on flickr http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

More tools

Authenticity

Your Voice

Let it evolve

Survival Kit

Using your Right Brain:

Ideas + Passion + Curiosity

Using your Left Brain:

Blog sites (read/comment) + Meetups +

Lather/Rinse/Repeat