how to blog by geoff livingston at wearemedia
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Geoff Livingston and Qui Diaz gave an incredible workshop on blogging at the NTC09TRANSCRIPT
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Blogging: The Basics
A Webinar Developed By CRT/tanaka
©2009
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Why Blog?
• Thought leadership• Share experiences and
value w/ community• SEO• Provide capture point
for marketing initiatives• Influence the media• Crisis PR• And much, much more
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Structuring Your Content
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Content: Editorial Mission
• The editorial mission serves as a compass
• Determines topics• Coming up with ideas
can be a brainstorm• How do the topics tie to
your work?• Your stakeholders?• Do you have
commentary to add?
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Content: Bringing the Editorial Mission to Life
• Think in brush strokes• Color commentary on
pertinent topics• Posts are often 3-10
paragraphs in length• Fully researched
concepts can be broken into several posts
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Content: Tone
• It’s not a formal business document– Personality should be
included– Write it like you were
talking with someone on a Saturday
• Remove unnecessary 1st person (I, me)
• Edit for grammar
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Content: Structure• Long diatribes will drive
people away• Ideal paragraph length is 3-
6 lines• Posts greater than 10
paragraphs should be broken into two posts
• Minimum of three links to other blogs per post
• Ideal: Video, audio to supplement
• Must: A picture for each post
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Content: Researching Links, Photos• Flickr Creative Commons for
Images: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
• Make sure to provide attribution• Places to research blog posts for
crosslinks:– s.technorati.com– blogsearch.google.com– Icerocket.com
• Use key words and phrases from posts to find links
• Ideal: You or PR firm is using del.icio.us to build reservoir of links, informative posts
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Promotion• Socnet Participation• Bookmarking/Sharing• Comment on and link to
other blogs• Blog roll • Register the blog with
Technorati, Google Blogs, and other blog search engines – Tags help!
• Include the blog’s url in your email signature, business card, social network profiles
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Frequency & Fodder• The more you post, the better
– 2 – 3 times a week is a good goal– Be consistent
• Need ideas? – Read other blogs on your topic– Stay on top of news related to your
topic– Your offline experiences are valuable
& a great platform for a unique idea or perspective
– Keep an idea log for future posts
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Using Windows Live Writer
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Formatting Text with Live Writer
• Basic MS Word functionality
• Italics• Bold• Underline• Bullets
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Links with Live Writer
• Adding Hyperlinks• Highlight text• Copy URL• Use link button (see
screen shot on left)• Insert link• Also, can hyperlink
audio/podcast downloads with URL
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Images with Live Writer• Save photo to computer• Insert image in the post
using image button• Flush left or right• Build border around
image• Use advanced features to
size appropriately (500 for full size, 240 for half screen)
• Add text and link for attribution
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Categories & Publish with Live Writer
• Lower left corner allows you to tag photo with the correct category
• You can also set posting time– Pre-posting allows for
blogging ahead of set day– Simply push to post,
LiveWriter opens window
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Using WordPress
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Editing Live Posts
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Editing Live Posts: Part II
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Editing Live Posts Part III
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Code Tricks• Adding video text: Insert
script from You Tube, Blip.tv, etc. where you want it placed
• Make sure there is ample space between paragraphs and code<br> <p>
• Be Careful: WP often alters video script if it is edited after publishing… Make it the last thing
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Moderating Comments
• Go to comments tab• Go to moderation sub-
tab• Edit, delete or approve
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Comments
• Always good to engage commenters, but you don’t have to answer every one.
• Thank yous works• Negative comments are good!• Not all negative comments warrant a return,
especially repeats • Don’t feed the trolls
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Images Used• Neutron star 2004 by NASA http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/291708133/• Tree of Life, by quema http://www.flickr.com/photos/quemas/1394199592/• Michelle, by digiart2001 http://www.flickr.com/photos/digiart2001/2143155562/• Black glass by exothermic http://www.flickr.com/photos/exothermic/2277966148/• New York Public Library by grahamwell
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahamwell/199603745/• Megaphone Man by Aazonearth http://flickr.com/photos/aazis/393250260/ • 19th February 2005 by http://flickr.com/photos/paulwatson/5070829/