Learn how to easily build a blog using the free WordPress tool. Part of #DigitalTuesdays

1. Building a
with
WordPress
#DigitalTuesdays

2. •Introductions
•What is a blog, and why is it useful
•What different types of blog are there, what are their
pros and cons?
•Writing your blog; what and how
•Creating a blog withWordPress
Today’s session

3. •The capacity to choose applications having assessed
their benefits and constraints
•An understanding of digital media as a social, political
and educational tool
•The capacity to design and/or create new digital
artefacts
•The capacity to communicate effectively in digital
media and spaces
•The capacity to develop and project a positive digital
identity or identities and to manage digital reputation
Building Digital Capabilities
https://digitalcapability.jisc.ac.uk/

4. •Interested in blogging
•Blogged as an assignment for my MA:
https://thoughtsfromastudentlibrarian.wordpress.com/
•Helped to moderate a blog for students at Sussex:
https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sagestudents/
•Regularly contribute to the Chartered Institute of
Library and Information Professionals, MmIT Blog e.g.:
https://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/blo
ckchain-technology-and-us/
•Written numerous guest posts for the LSE Impact Blog
and InformationToday Europe Blog.
About me

5. What is a

7. Hall, J. (1994) ‘Welcome to my first attempt at Hypertext’, Justin’s Home Page, 27 Jan.
Available at: https://www.links.net/vita/web/start/original.html (Accessed: 13 February 2020).

8. 3 years before the term ‘blog’ (an abbreviation of ‘weblog’) was coined by Jorn Barger
and 5 years before the first dedicated blog-publishing service, Blogger, was launched.
Hall, J. (1994) ‘Welcome to my first attempt at Hypertext’, Justin’s Home Page, 27 Jan.
Available at: https://www.links.net/vita/web/start/original.html (Accessed: 13 February 2020).

9. Blogs evolved from online diaries such as these.
Designed for brief, frequent posts that are arranged chronologically.
Traditionally based around links with commentary (hence ‘logging the web’).
3 years before the term ‘blog’ (an abbreviation of ‘weblog’) was coined by Jorn Barger
and 5 years before the first dedicated blog-publishing service, Blogger, was launched.
Hall, J. (1994) ‘Welcome to my first attempt at Hypertext’, Justin’s Home Page, 27 Jan.
Available at: https://www.links.net/vita/web/start/original.html (Accessed: 13 February 2020).

10. The development of tools such asWordPress, that have made it easier to post
short articles for the web in chronological order, have seen popularity grow
(along with ‘microblogging’ sites such atTumblr andTwitter).
Blogs evolved from online diaries such as these.
Designed for brief, frequent posts that are arranged chronologically.
Traditionally based around links with commentary (hence ‘logging the web’).
3 years before the term ‘blog’ (an abbreviation of ‘weblog’) was coined by Jorn Barger
and 5 years before the first dedicated blog-publishing service, Blogger, was launched.
Hall, J. (1994) ‘Welcome to my first attempt at Hypertext’, Justin’s Home Page, 27 Jan.
Available at: https://www.links.net/vita/web/start/original.html (Accessed: 13 February 2020).

11. Different types of

12. Student blogs
https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sagestudents/

13. Blogs by your professors
https://historyonics.blogspot.com/

14. Blogs about research
https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/everydaychildhoods/

15. Blogs for your research
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44226464

16. Blogs from your School
https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/business-school/

17. Creating a
with
WordPress

18. .com or .org?
https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

23. Writing your
*If it’s for an assignment,
always follow the
assignment guidelines!
*

24. Myers, G. (2010) The discourse of blogs and wikis. London: Continuum.
•Address: Hello fellow Sussex-ers!
•Pronouns: We’re all here to learn about blogging.
•Referring to the audience: Is that right? Or are
some of you in the wrong place?
•Questions and directives: Anyway, let’s get on with
the blogging.
•Enacting conversational interaction: “But I
thought this was going to be hands-on” I hear you say.
Writing your blog:
A checklist for engaging readers

25. Posts

26. Customise

27. Publish your