The document provides tips for starting a blog, including setting goals to determine frequency, choosing an interesting topic for your target audience, setting up your blog platform (e.g. Blogger, WordPress), writing blog posts between 250-350 words with catchy subheads and links/pictures, and including a profile, blogroll, and social links on your blog layout.

1. BLOG ON!
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2. How To Blog
The Basics of Blogging and Other
Easy Tips to Get Started
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3. Set Your Goals
Are you blogging for yourself?
Are you blogging for a company?
Are you blogging for a cause?
Thoughts
Your goals will help determine how often you want to
blog. If you’re working for a company, you’ll want to
blog frequently and write about something that fits your
target audience.
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4. Your Topic, Your Passion or Your
Cause
• Choose a topic that you can write about at
least once a week.
• Choose a topic that will be interesting to
your target audience.
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5. Blog Setup
• Sign up for free on Blogger or Wordpress.
• Fill out the information as requested, although
you don’t have to necessarily fill out
everything all at once.
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6. Blog Post Nitty Gritty
250 to 350-word long blog posts are comfortable in reading
length.
Break up the text with catchy subheads in bold.
Keep paragraphs short—4 to 6 sentences
Lots of links and Pictures
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7. Blog Layout
Profile: Let people know who you are
with a short bio and possibly a
picture.
• Blogroll: This is the list of
Web sites you like to read.
Social Links: Put in links to your other
social accounts on Facebook, Twitter,
etc.
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8. Thank You!
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