why blogging still_matters
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Why Blogging MattersStill
In this session
SEO tips and tricks
The best blogging platforms
Should I monetize?
Guest and/or Ghost Blogging
How to write for more readers
Kidding!
Chat Question
So… what do you want to learn today?
Blogging is Dead…
"We are moving to collections and curations, to mobile content, and to different authoring tools. Think for a moment about the incredible popularity of Tumblr, or of Pinterest. I believe they are early iterations of the content revolution."
- Francine Hardaway, Fast Company
Blog vs. Micro-blog
High
HighLow
Frequency
Volume
Blog
Micro-blog
1.415
It’s not about the technology.
Do you blog?
Why do you blog?
Blogging and the Learning Professional
Solution to Summation
Challenge
Action
ResultBenefit
The real to the virtual to the real
Business problemOutreachSolution Share!
Doc Havis
#WOL
Why write?
experience practice
conversation reflection
Real Learning
Why did you or do you blog?
“To clarify my thinking… how am I
to know what I think if I don’t
see it?”
“writing ourselves into existence.”- Dave Weinberger
21st Century Resume
Writing Out loud
What to write?
Tom’s Restaurant on 2880 Broadway, New York by Christophe Gevrey CC BY-SA 3.0
How do you perceive bloggers?
Blog vs. Article
"Bloggers are free – nay, encouraged – to write in the first person. It gives you, the reader, a sense that I’m talking straight to you. Like we’re buddies.”
Mari Kane, Blog Site Studio
Gotta Have Thick Skin
What if nobody likes it?
What makes a blog one you will revisit?
Getting Started
Strategy
Start Think Move
Notes
Blogging in the Org
Show Your Work!
My World
Harold JarcheLife in
Perpetual Beta
Jane HartCenter for Learning
& Performance Technology
Charles JenningsThe 70:20:10
FORUM
Jay Cross The Working
Smarter Field Book
Euan SempleOrganizations Don’t
Tweet People Do
Jon HusbandWirearchy
You?
My favorite is not a public
favorite
Better for Having Begun
Write about now, right about now!