Blog Fodder : What do I put in?

Slide 1: Blog Fodder What do I put in? Kathryn Greenhill LibrariansMatter.com Uploaded to Flickr on November 7, 2005 by cindy47452 Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 2: Find your voice Look at your blog Look at your audience Look at yourself Some kinds of blog posts If you have bloggers’ block Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 3: Find your voice … Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 4: 1. Look at your blog Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 5: What type of blog is it? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 6: Tagline Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 7: “About” page Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 8: 2. Look at your audience Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 9: What audience? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 10: Sitemeter Google Analytics Google webmaster tools Stats at your hosting service Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 11: How do they get to you? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 12: Squeaky bras Fear of beetroot What time is the Australian Idol replay Geek t-shirts Perth Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 13: Where do they come from? Domain? Location? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 14: Who do you want in your audience? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 15: 3. Who are you ? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 16: What do you want to write about ? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 17: Would you read your blog? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 18: Is the voice of your blog human? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 19: Which bits of yourself do you want to show? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 20: Your privacy. Others’ privacy Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 21: Findability = forever Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 22: What other online conversations are you part of? Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 23: Some kinds of blog posts Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 24: Breaking News Snarky or Contrarian Opinion Diary Entry Resource/Link List Video Ideas/Inspiration Images Aggregate List/Guide Charts & Graphs Review/Analysis Surveys Humorous Scholarly Articles How-to/Tutorial Interview Case Study 18 Different types of blog posts from ilibrarian Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 25: If you have bloggers’ block… Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 26: Leave it Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 27: Get a life Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 28: Really…leave it. Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 29: Prewrite posts Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 30: Read other blogs Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 31: Tell a story Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 32: Make a list Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 33: Find a meme Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 34: Set a public challenge Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 35: Set a posting schedule Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 36: Go off topic … and bring it back Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 37: Write a post for searchbots Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 38: Ask questions and summarise (twitter or Facebook) Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 39: Invite a guest blogger Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 40: Work in another medium and embed it Snap a Photo - Flickr Draw a picture - scan Make a slidecast – Slideshare.net Create an audio file - Podomatic Make a video - Viddler Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 41: SO… Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 42: If you want stuff for your blog Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 43: Find your VOICE Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 44: Know TYPES of BLOG POSTS Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 45: Know how to deal with BLOGGERS BLOCK Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 46: PLAY Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com

Slide 47: Kathryn Greenhill http://librariansmatter.com Uploaded to Flickr on November 7, 2005 by cindy47452