Presentation at the Blog Academy: a general introduction to blogging.

1. Blog Academy
www.deanmeyers.net

2. The Blog Space
Anatomy
Authenticity
Your Voice
Your Survival Kit

3. “Without partisan politics,
cute kitty captions and celebrity
crotcherazzi photos, nobody
would know what a blog was.” –
Ike Pigott
Author of http://occamsrazr.com

4. Anatomy of a blog

5. What it isn’t:

6. What it isn’t:

7. What it isn’t:

8. ….with a little religion, politics and how-to thrown in.

9. http://darmano.typepad.com/

10. http://www.henkterheide.com

11. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

13. http://www.aaronlazar.com/

14. Take a number –
using online services
www.wordpress.com
www.blogger.com
www.typepad.com

15. Do-it-yourself software
Wordpress – the kinder,
gentler blogging platform
Drupal – the big kahoonah,
many bloggers may share
one place to as home
Typepad – good, all purpose,
more like Wordpress

16. Wordpress: Plugins
(SEO, Aksemet, others)
Drupal: Modules
(Pathauto, mollom, others)
Generic: Adsense, Google
Analytics, Twitter, ShareIt.

17. Get people on board
Feedburner (service)
RSS feeds
E-mail Subscribers – permission based ONLY

18. More tools
Pictures:
For pay: istockphoto.com
For free: Creative Commons on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

19. Authenticity

20. Your Voice
Let it evolve

21. Survival Kit
Using your Right Brain:
Ideas + Passion + Curiosity
Using your Left Brain:
Blog sites (read/comment) + Meetups +
Lather/Rinse/Repeat