Have you been thinking about setting up a blog? Now's your chance to do it with some help so you get off to a great start. In this session, we'll talk different options for layout and strategy to creating a blog that is attractive and shares your message. You'll Need: A Laptop and a (free) Wordpress blog installed. > Blogging #1: 8:00 am - 10:00 am Presented By: Dawn Crawford - Colorado Children's Immunization Coalition Laura Whitehead - Popokatea > Blogging #2: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Presented By: Dawn Crawford - Colorado Children's Immunization Coalition Laura Whitehead - Popokatea

1. We Are Media: Blogging Presented by Dawn Crawford Communications Director at Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition & Social Media Strategist at BC/DC & Laura Whitehead Web and print designer and consultant in online digital media at Popokatea

2. What Do You Want Out of This Session?

4. Why Blog? Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy http://nibiryukov.narod.ru/nb_pinacoteca/nb_pinacoteca_painting/nb_pinacoteca_gay_portrait_of_leo_tolstoy.jpg

6. Rules??!! All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. - Ernest Hemingway http://blog.syracuse.com/shelflife/2008/07/hemingway.jpg

8. What to Write About It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe http://webpage.pace.edu/kculkin/files/mariachild.jpg

10. Picking A Platform I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. - Jane Austen http://lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits/images/23.jpg

12. Getting Started The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand http://drx.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/03/ayn_rand_4.jpg

15. Finding Readers Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. - F. Scott Fitzgerald http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/fitzreading.jpg

17. Ways to Blog Without a Blog You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. - Harper Lee http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/91/126891-050-C7043366.jpg

19. Measuring Your Success Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build & nobody wants to do maintenance . - Kurt Vonnegut http://www.theblacklaser.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/vonnegut2.jpg

21. Who To Read Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck http://fansinaflashbulb.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/steinbeck.jpg