At this Meetup, we discussed blogging and how it can help your business. Some areas we cover: • Where to blog (personal blog versus on your business site) • How to find ideas and manage them in a content calendar • How to build those ideas into full posts • Where to find and create graphics for your posts • Some of the best WordPress themes for blogging • Plugins to help make your blog more effective

1. Blogging strategies for 2017
#ATWP

3. AllThingsWordPress.com
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6. Thursday, January 26
Growing your business in 2017
All Things WordPress

7. Thursday, February 2
Hooks and Filters and Actions, Oh My!
All Things WordPress

8. Tuesday, February 14
TBD
All Things WordPress

9. March 18-19
2017.atlanta.wordcamp.org
WordCamp Atlanta 2017

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16. Blogging strategies
for 2017

17. Why blog?

18. More traffic to your site

19. Great way to share your knowledge

20. Can reference old posts to help people

21. Can reference old posts to help people

22. How often should I blog?

23. My history of blogging

24. Started in 2004

25. WordPress soon after

26. Sporadic and scattered

27. Google Earth Blog

28. GreenMellen

29. Where to blog now?

30. Lots of consolidation and cleanup

31. Finding ideas and
planning posts

32. Finding ideas
gmm.to/feedlypost

33. Saving ideas
gmm.to/keeppost

34. Building ideas

35. Creating images

36. Canva

37. Canva

38. Themes

39. Dumb & Pretty

40. Dumb & Pretty

41. Don’t worry about theme niches

42. Dumb & Pretty

43. Beautiful Pro

44. Wintersong

45. Daily Dish

46. Plugins

47. Akismet

48. AMP

49. Genesis Simple Edits

50. GM Block Bots

51. Google Analytics by MonsterInsights

52. Jetpack

53. Jetpack
● Sharing
● Related Posts
● Comments
● Likes
● Subscriptions
● Enhanced Distribution
● Protect
● Single Sign On
● Photon
● Extra Sidebar Widgets
● Holiday Snow
● Shortcode Embeds
● Spelling and Grammar
● Markdown

54. ManageWP Worker

55. Post List Featured Image

56. PuSHPress

57. Simple Social Icons

58. The SEO Framework

59. Other Tips & Notes

60. Typo Domains
GreenMellenMedia.com
GreenMellonMedia.com
GreenMelonMedia.com
GreenMellen.com
Mickmel.com
Mickmell.com
Micmel.com

61. Markdown

62. Markdown
# Header 1
## Header 2
**bold**
*italic*
[link this](http://google.com)
- Bulleted
- List
gmm.to/trymarkdown

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