- The document outlines Jacqueline DeVito's presentation on using blogging as a tool for grief processing after losing her sister Jennifer at a young age.
- It discusses the benefits of writing for grief, how to set up a blog on WordPress, how to create posts and pages, and tips for content to write about such as memories, milestones, and difficult days.
- The presentation aims to show others how blogging helped Jacqueline on her own grief journey and can be a way for others to reflect on and process their emotions.
This is my presentation, "Blogging Your Way Through Grief" from the The Compassionate Friends 2012 National/International Conference in Costa Mesa, California.
The document discusses using blogs in the 21st century classroom. It defines what a blog is and provides examples of how teachers can use blogs for discussions, classroom management, student portfolios, and writing. It also outlines steps for teachers to set up blogs, including registering, selecting themes, creating posts and categories, moderating comments, and adding images. Blogs allow students to express themselves while developing online communication skills.
The document discusses how to use blogs. It defines a blog as a website maintained by an individual with regular commentary, descriptions, or other media like graphics or video. It recommends starting a blog on sites like Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Facebook or Twitter. The document outlines how to create an account, choose design options, make posts, interact with comments, and includes example blog links.
Marketing and Promoting your Writing TodayAndrew Walsh
The document discusses the importance of building an author platform to market writing. It defines a platform as an author's visibility and fanbase. While publishers once controlled platforms, authors can now self-publish and interact directly with readers online. However, the modern marketplace is crowded. The document recommends authors create a central website or blog to house information and funnel social media engagement. It provides tips for free and paid website hosting, essential website elements, and effective yet balanced social media strategies.
This document discusses blogs and wikis as hubs for communication and collaboration. It begins by defining blogs as individually editable websites. It then discusses why blogs are useful for establishing personal brands, enhancing careers, informing audiences, and influencing others. Key aspects of blogs include frequent new posts, reader comments, and sharing content on social networks. Effective blogs discuss topics the author is knowledgeable in and engage readers. The document also contrasts blogs with websites, newsletters, and forums, noting blogs combine elements of each. It provides tips for getting started with blogging, including researching topics and understanding the blogger role. Wikis are defined as websites that allow collaborative editing using just a browser.
Blogs and wikis are collaborative tools for communication and information sharing, with blogs allowing individuals to post and edit content on a website and wikis enabling multiple users to collectively create and edit interlinked web pages. Blogs are useful for personal branding, career enhancement, and engaging an audience, while wikis facilitate group projects through their open structure and version control features that record changes to content. Both tools combine elements of websites, newsletters, forums, and other media to connect individuals and foster discussion.
This is my presentation, "Blogging Your Way Through Grief" from the The Compassionate Friends 2012 National/International Conference in Costa Mesa, California.
The document discusses using blogs in the 21st century classroom. It defines what a blog is and provides examples of how teachers can use blogs for discussions, classroom management, student portfolios, and writing. It also outlines steps for teachers to set up blogs, including registering, selecting themes, creating posts and categories, moderating comments, and adding images. Blogs allow students to express themselves while developing online communication skills.
The document discusses how to use blogs. It defines a blog as a website maintained by an individual with regular commentary, descriptions, or other media like graphics or video. It recommends starting a blog on sites like Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Facebook or Twitter. The document outlines how to create an account, choose design options, make posts, interact with comments, and includes example blog links.
Marketing and Promoting your Writing TodayAndrew Walsh
The document discusses the importance of building an author platform to market writing. It defines a platform as an author's visibility and fanbase. While publishers once controlled platforms, authors can now self-publish and interact directly with readers online. However, the modern marketplace is crowded. The document recommends authors create a central website or blog to house information and funnel social media engagement. It provides tips for free and paid website hosting, essential website elements, and effective yet balanced social media strategies.
This document discusses blogs and wikis as hubs for communication and collaboration. It begins by defining blogs as individually editable websites. It then discusses why blogs are useful for establishing personal brands, enhancing careers, informing audiences, and influencing others. Key aspects of blogs include frequent new posts, reader comments, and sharing content on social networks. Effective blogs discuss topics the author is knowledgeable in and engage readers. The document also contrasts blogs with websites, newsletters, and forums, noting blogs combine elements of each. It provides tips for getting started with blogging, including researching topics and understanding the blogger role. Wikis are defined as websites that allow collaborative editing using just a browser.
Blogs and wikis are collaborative tools for communication and information sharing, with blogs allowing individuals to post and edit content on a website and wikis enabling multiple users to collectively create and edit interlinked web pages. Blogs are useful for personal branding, career enhancement, and engaging an audience, while wikis facilitate group projects through their open structure and version control features that record changes to content. Both tools combine elements of websites, newsletters, forums, and other media to connect individuals and foster discussion.
How to leverage Facebook to tell your school's storyedSocialMedia
This document outlines strategies for leveraging a Facebook page, as presented in a workshop at Bishop Brady High School. It discusses how to create and customize a Facebook page, including settings like page administrators, posting as the page, notifications, and insights. Tips are provided for engaging fans through posts, photos, polls and events. The goals are to start conversations, engage constituents and build an online community around the school.
This document provides an overview of social media and best practices for using social media. It defines social media as interactive online conversations using social networking, blogging, microblogging, podcasting, chat, and sharing of photos and videos. The document discusses why companies use social media for marketing, some tips for engaging audiences, and potential downsides. It also outlines tools for social media like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and Google alerts. Finally, it provides exercises for participants to evaluate social media pages and build their own social media listening dashboard.
AmFam Coach Chat 9-27-12- Forward ProgressSocial Jack
With the constant changes and innovations in the world of social media, it’s hard to keep up with everything and to determine which social media vehicles will serve your company best. And if you do figure that out, a new social media site is introduced and you wonder if that’s where you should be!
Pinterest is an online pinboard that allows users to organize and share interests. Teachers are using Pinterest to gather and organize educational materials for their classrooms. The document provides instructions on setting up an account and boards, adding pins, following other boards and people, and examples of what teachers are pinning, including lesson plans, assessments, websites, videos, and professional development resources. It concludes with rules for using Pinterest respectfully and sources for finding other educators on the site.
This document provides an overview of using social media to promote a business. It discusses the top 4 social media platforms: Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn, and Facebook. For each platform, it describes why businesses should use it, how to set up an account, and recommended tools. The document encourages establishing relationships, staying on top of trends, building a fan base, and positioning yourself as an expert. It stresses the importance of linking accounts, posting and engaging frequently, and testing strategies to maximize success on social media.
The route to monetization for authors is more accessible today than ever before. Today’s bloggers are tomorrow’s authors and the gap between reader & author is squeezing the traditional publisher out of the equation.
This document provides an overview of blogs, blogging, and how to create a blog on Blogger.com. It defines a blog as a frequently updated online personal journal or diary used to express oneself and share thoughts and passions. Key features of blogs include blog posts, comments, videos, and links. Blogging involves skills like search engine optimization, social media marketing, writing, editing, publishing posts, and website design and maintenance. Benefits of blogging include starting a new business, becoming a better writer, getting more clients, learning about people, selling products, and self-expression. The document then discusses blog commenting and its benefits for search engine optimization and relationship building before concluding with step-by-step instructions for creating
This document provides instructions for customizing a blog on blogger.com. It explains that a blog is like a website but displays posts in reverse chronological order and allows users to leave comments. It then encourages the user to click buttons to customize and add contact information, sidebar items, and widgets to their new blog.
Blogging Effectively By Building Consumer Loyalty And MinimizingDoug Devitre
The document provides guidance on effectively blogging to build consumer loyalty and minimize risks as a real estate professional. It discusses why consumers read blogs and why they would read a real estate blog. It outlines key aspects of setting up an effective blog like selecting a title, writing intriguing entries, including links, images and multimedia, engaging in conversations through comments. The document also discusses common mistakes bloggers make and risks to avoid like negative comments, losing message control, blog neglect, and presenting incorrect information. Ethical issues around diversity, fair housing and adhering to the realtor code of ethics are also covered.
The document defines what a blog is and provides examples of popular blogs. It then discusses blog terminology and the history of blogs. Various types of blogs are described, including personal, corporate, and those based on media like video or audio. Strategies and tactics for using blogs for marketing purposes are also outlined.
Webjam provides powerful productivity software to help businesses achieve competitive advantages by engaging customers, boosting productivity, and integrating social media. The document provides tips for using Webjam's features to customize websites, control privacy settings, create new communities, engage with customers, and promote a Webjam site. It emphasizes that Webjam allows for effortless collaboration internally and externally to recognize expertise and access knowledge.
SlideShare is a social media site that allows users to upload and share presentations. Users can create presentations using tools like PowerPoint and upload them to SlideShare to gain an audience of millions of viewers. The process involves creating an account, uploading a presentation file, adding metadata like title and tags, and publishing it. Presentations can be discovered across many categories. Some advantages of using SlideShare include building an audience, saving presentations offline, and potentially earning money. However, it is not fully mobile friendly and only allows uploading, not editing, of presentations. Special sites on SlideShare recommend using an attractive title, short descriptive text, simple structure, visual elements, and promoting uploads on other social media.
Here are all of the basics to be able to learn how to navigate your way around beBee the new platform taking hold in the US for professional networking
Do you have a blog? Want more email subscribers?
This presentation by @justinpremick for #FinCon12 discusses how to:
* Turn your 2 most popular pages into subscriber magnets
* Make your opt-in forms convert
* Get more subscribers through 3 more key places on your blog
This document provides instructions for uploading a PowerPoint presentation to SlideShare and embedding it into a Blogger post. The steps are to login or create an account on SlideShare, upload the PowerPoint file, copy the embed link, create a new post on Blogger, and paste the embed link into the post using HTML view.
Email Campaign Tear-down: An Interactive Workshop - Justin PremickPhilip Taylor
This document provides tips for getting more email subscribers. It recommends that opt-in forms must make a compelling offer and put subscribers at ease. It suggests creatively placing inline forms on popular pages like the homepage using lightbox or hover forms. The about page is also identified as one that could build the email list. Additional places to add opt-in forms are in the sidebar, at the end of blog posts, and in comment forms. The presenter offers to share slides and answer questions.
This document discusses blogging as a tool for e-learning. It explains that a blog is an online writing journal that can be personal or shared on any topic. Blogging invites the expansion of information through questions and participation from readers. People can collaborate through written text by asking and answering questions and sharing information and links. Popular blogging sites make it easy to create a blog with a title, focus, and ways to promote interaction. Blogging daily maximizes interactivity and provides feedback to readers.
How to leverage Facebook to tell your school's storyedSocialMedia
This document outlines strategies for leveraging a Facebook page, as presented in a workshop at Bishop Brady High School. It discusses how to create and customize a Facebook page, including settings like page administrators, posting as the page, notifications, and insights. Tips are provided for engaging fans through posts, photos, polls and events. The goals are to start conversations, engage constituents and build an online community around the school.
This document provides an overview of social media and best practices for using social media. It defines social media as interactive online conversations using social networking, blogging, microblogging, podcasting, chat, and sharing of photos and videos. The document discusses why companies use social media for marketing, some tips for engaging audiences, and potential downsides. It also outlines tools for social media like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and Google alerts. Finally, it provides exercises for participants to evaluate social media pages and build their own social media listening dashboard.
AmFam Coach Chat 9-27-12- Forward ProgressSocial Jack
With the constant changes and innovations in the world of social media, it’s hard to keep up with everything and to determine which social media vehicles will serve your company best. And if you do figure that out, a new social media site is introduced and you wonder if that’s where you should be!
Pinterest is an online pinboard that allows users to organize and share interests. Teachers are using Pinterest to gather and organize educational materials for their classrooms. The document provides instructions on setting up an account and boards, adding pins, following other boards and people, and examples of what teachers are pinning, including lesson plans, assessments, websites, videos, and professional development resources. It concludes with rules for using Pinterest respectfully and sources for finding other educators on the site.
This document provides an overview of using social media to promote a business. It discusses the top 4 social media platforms: Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn, and Facebook. For each platform, it describes why businesses should use it, how to set up an account, and recommended tools. The document encourages establishing relationships, staying on top of trends, building a fan base, and positioning yourself as an expert. It stresses the importance of linking accounts, posting and engaging frequently, and testing strategies to maximize success on social media.
The route to monetization for authors is more accessible today than ever before. Today’s bloggers are tomorrow’s authors and the gap between reader & author is squeezing the traditional publisher out of the equation.
This document provides an overview of blogs, blogging, and how to create a blog on Blogger.com. It defines a blog as a frequently updated online personal journal or diary used to express oneself and share thoughts and passions. Key features of blogs include blog posts, comments, videos, and links. Blogging involves skills like search engine optimization, social media marketing, writing, editing, publishing posts, and website design and maintenance. Benefits of blogging include starting a new business, becoming a better writer, getting more clients, learning about people, selling products, and self-expression. The document then discusses blog commenting and its benefits for search engine optimization and relationship building before concluding with step-by-step instructions for creating
This document provides instructions for customizing a blog on blogger.com. It explains that a blog is like a website but displays posts in reverse chronological order and allows users to leave comments. It then encourages the user to click buttons to customize and add contact information, sidebar items, and widgets to their new blog.
Blogging Effectively By Building Consumer Loyalty And MinimizingDoug Devitre
The document provides guidance on effectively blogging to build consumer loyalty and minimize risks as a real estate professional. It discusses why consumers read blogs and why they would read a real estate blog. It outlines key aspects of setting up an effective blog like selecting a title, writing intriguing entries, including links, images and multimedia, engaging in conversations through comments. The document also discusses common mistakes bloggers make and risks to avoid like negative comments, losing message control, blog neglect, and presenting incorrect information. Ethical issues around diversity, fair housing and adhering to the realtor code of ethics are also covered.
The document defines what a blog is and provides examples of popular blogs. It then discusses blog terminology and the history of blogs. Various types of blogs are described, including personal, corporate, and those based on media like video or audio. Strategies and tactics for using blogs for marketing purposes are also outlined.
Webjam provides powerful productivity software to help businesses achieve competitive advantages by engaging customers, boosting productivity, and integrating social media. The document provides tips for using Webjam's features to customize websites, control privacy settings, create new communities, engage with customers, and promote a Webjam site. It emphasizes that Webjam allows for effortless collaboration internally and externally to recognize expertise and access knowledge.
SlideShare is a social media site that allows users to upload and share presentations. Users can create presentations using tools like PowerPoint and upload them to SlideShare to gain an audience of millions of viewers. The process involves creating an account, uploading a presentation file, adding metadata like title and tags, and publishing it. Presentations can be discovered across many categories. Some advantages of using SlideShare include building an audience, saving presentations offline, and potentially earning money. However, it is not fully mobile friendly and only allows uploading, not editing, of presentations. Special sites on SlideShare recommend using an attractive title, short descriptive text, simple structure, visual elements, and promoting uploads on other social media.
Here are all of the basics to be able to learn how to navigate your way around beBee the new platform taking hold in the US for professional networking
Do you have a blog? Want more email subscribers?
This presentation by @justinpremick for #FinCon12 discusses how to:
* Turn your 2 most popular pages into subscriber magnets
* Make your opt-in forms convert
* Get more subscribers through 3 more key places on your blog
This document provides instructions for uploading a PowerPoint presentation to SlideShare and embedding it into a Blogger post. The steps are to login or create an account on SlideShare, upload the PowerPoint file, copy the embed link, create a new post on Blogger, and paste the embed link into the post using HTML view.
Email Campaign Tear-down: An Interactive Workshop - Justin PremickPhilip Taylor
This document provides tips for getting more email subscribers. It recommends that opt-in forms must make a compelling offer and put subscribers at ease. It suggests creatively placing inline forms on popular pages like the homepage using lightbox or hover forms. The about page is also identified as one that could build the email list. Additional places to add opt-in forms are in the sidebar, at the end of blog posts, and in comment forms. The presenter offers to share slides and answer questions.
This document discusses blogging as a tool for e-learning. It explains that a blog is an online writing journal that can be personal or shared on any topic. Blogging invites the expansion of information through questions and participation from readers. People can collaborate through written text by asking and answering questions and sharing information and links. Popular blogging sites make it easy to create a blog with a title, focus, and ways to promote interaction. Blogging daily maximizes interactivity and provides feedback to readers.
WordPress in NOT English - WordCamp Hamburg 2014Yoav Farhi
Presentation from WC Hamburg about how using WordPress in languages other than English can sometimes be frustrating, and what the community is doing about this.
Folien zu meiner Präsentation auf den Österreichischen Medientagen 2013 der Session "Offener Stadt - Offener Diskurs" (http://www.medien-tage.at/medientage/2492013-saal-2/artikel/offene-stadt-offener-diskurs-1/)
The document summarizes a WordPress developers meetup. It discusses new features introduced in recent WordPress versions like 2.7 through 3.0, including custom backgrounds and headers, navigation menus, custom post types, and more. It encourages attendees to get involved in WordPress development through testing, translating, contributing code, and staying up to date on development through various communication channels. The meetup aims to help developers learn and discuss WordPress features and development.
Michel Martelly becomes Haiti's 56th president with the slogan "Haiti first, Haiti always". National news includes the leader of a prison break being found dead, several fast food restaurants being fined by the Health Ministry, and a deadline approaching again for a bill on in vitro fertilization. The Costa Rica Supreme Court rejected gay marriage as impossible. Japan will host the 2011 Club World Cup. The lifestyle and health section recommends relaxation techniques like yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises.
This document summarizes the US automotive retailing industry from 1995-2002. It discusses the industry's key revenue streams, cost structure, regulations, and drivers of consolidation. It notes that new vehicle sales generate 50-60% of revenue ($410 billion) while used vehicles generate $379 billion. Service and parts generate $118 billion in profits of 45-55%. Insurance and finance generate $93 billion in profits of 100% per unit. Variable costs make up 62% of costs while fixed costs are 38%. Compensation expenses are the largest cost at 47%. Floor plan interest and advertising are also critical factors. Government regulations restrict the number of franchises owned and require uniform pricing. Industry fragmentation and poor customer experience drove public dealers
The document discusses sharing financial decisions between spouses. Merging investments strengthens a household's financial position and gives a comprehensive view. The tax authority sets limits but allows gifting between spouses without tax. Strategies discussed include loaning money for a house purchase and investing in tax-free options like PPF or gold. Gifting gold to a spouse avoids income generation. A wife's separate savings from household expenses are also tax-free if invested.
Barnes & Noble is expanding to India by opening several stores in Mumbai neighborhoods that are home to upper-middle and high-income residents. The stores will sell books, music, toys, gifts and home appliances. They will target different customer groups including kids, youth, working professionals and families. The stores will offer membership programs, events and cafes to create a community experience around reading, entertainment and relaxation.
A blog is an online journal or diary that allows individuals to freely express thoughts and ideas on various topics. Key components of a blog include a header, content area, footer, and sidebar. Posts typically contain text, images, and links. Blogs are created using blogging platforms like Blogger, which allow users to sign up, choose a template and blog address, and add and customize posts. Posts should have catchy titles and focus on quality content to engage readers and improve search engine rankings. Blogs can be used for both personal expression and educational purposes like facilitating class discussions.
This document provides tips for bloggers to get connected and increase engagement on their blogs. It recommends writing high-quality, frequent posts and utilizing tags, comments, and social sharing to help others find and engage with content. Bloggers can also monitor their growth using stats, create polls to gather reader input, and connect with other bloggers through blog-surfing and readomatic tools.
Scientific Outreach and Grantsmanship Part 4 bloggingDavid Tng
Scientific outreach and grant writing are skills that will be essential throughout the career of is a researcher. This course is designed to provide tips for scientific outreach to, and more importantly, beyond the scientific community, and also to introduce the subject of grant writing for various formats of grant applications. This powerpoint presentation contains Part 4 of the course which focusses on blogging for scientific outreach. The lectures were delivered as part of an optional discipline module at the Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia in October-November 2018.
This document provides instructions for setting up and using a blog. It explains that a blog is a website where users can post entries of text, images, audio and links. Readers can leave comments to interact with the blogger. The document then outlines how to set up a blog account, choose a design theme, write blog posts, and add images. It emphasizes experimenting with the blog to become comfortable using it and generating ideas for interactive class or community communication.
9. dr. gambari day 5 blogs, blogging and_blogosphereGambari Isiaka
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This document discusses the benefits of blogging for nonprofit organizations. It explains that blogs are websites that are frequently updated with commentary on topics. It provides instructions on how to set up a basic blog using WordPress, including choosing a username and password, and adding posts. It recommends what content nonprofits should include in their blogs, such as breaking news, calls to action, event photos and stories. It also lists some top blogs for nonprofits to follow as examples and resources.
Building Your Brand wth Blogging Nov 2012Penney Fox
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The document provides a step-by-step guide to learning WordPress. It discusses widgets, menus, plugins, accessing the dashboard, creating posts and pages, adding images and videos, categories and tags, and basic WordPress settings. The guide explains how to customize the sidebar, create navigation menus, add functionality through plugins, and navigate the backend interface. It also outlines how to write, format and publish new content on the site.
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Blogging 101 - Presentation on how to build and manage a successful content w...Robert Scales
Blogging 101 - From "what is a blog?" to "how to write original content" and user engagement, this presentation covers the basic information you'll need to start your own dynamic content publishing website (Blog).
How to become a successful blogger: 5-point checklistManoj Pandey
How to become a successful blogger?
Check where you stand, with this checklist.
You need to know your goal, and strengths and weaknesses. Then, take actions to remove the weaknesses. If blogging for money, you need to invest money on hosting and domain name purchases.
How to become a successful blogger: 5-point checklist
Blogging Your Way Through Grief
1. PRESENTED BY: JACQUELINE L. DeVITO
Bereaved Parents of the USA 2015 National Gathering
July 24-26, 2015 Hartford, Connecticut
2. Do not regret growing older.
It is a privilege denied to many.
-Unknown
3. Agenda
• About Me
• About My Sister, Jennifer
• My Journey Through Grief
• Why We Write During Grief
• Blogging vs. Journaling
• Getting Started
4. Agenda
• Creating Your Blog
• Setting Up Your Blog
• Logging Into Your Blog
• The Dashboard
• Post vs. Page
5. Agenda
• Adding a New Post or Page
• Categories and Tags
• Adding Images
• Editing an Image
• Managing Comments
• Publicizing Your Blog Posts
6. Agenda
• What To Blog About
• Site Stats
• What’s Next
• Learn More
• Keep In Touch
7. About Jacqueline
• From Westchester, New York
• Application Support Specialist for a digital
marketing agency
• Graduate of UAlbany; Sister of Alpha Xi
Delta (AΞΔ)
• Published in The Quill of Alpha Xi Delta
• Wanted to go to law school, but found myself
working as a Project Manager for a small
start-up
• Have always been web savvy
8.
9. About Jennifer
• My younger and only sister
• Passed away at 18; I was 22
• Loss was sudden
• Beautiful, charismatic, always happy
• Was a coach for The Silver Starlites, a
traveling baton twirling team
• Won 13 medals, 2 gold, at Junior Olympics
• Survived by my parents, my brother and
myself
10.
11. My Journey Through Grief
• Siblings are the forgotten mourners
• Constantly told to stay strong for my
family
• Tried two different support groups, but did
not feel they worked for me
• Gave journaling a try, but spent more time
decorating it then writing in it
12.
13. My Journey Through Grief
• Started my blog because I would rather
type my thoughts, than write them
• Started my blog on October 1, 2010, less
than two months after Jenn’s passing
• As of last week, I have 205 Posts, 358
comments, and 73,961 all-time views
14. Why We Write During Grief
• There are several similarities between the
writing process and the grief process. The
creative element of the writing process
may allow the bereaved to move on during
the grief process because writing may
become a tool for the expression of his or
her thoughts and feelings, new insights,
clarification, and reorganization. 1
15. Why We Write During Grief
• The benefits of writing are first and
foremost associated with exploratory and
expressive forms of communication. 1
• Writing is an aid to reflection, a way to
explore and discover one’s own thoughts
and feelings. 2, 3, 5, 6
• Writing and forming a story involve
reflection on events and contribute to self-
understanding and new insight. 6-8
16. Why We Write During Grief
• According to process-oriented writing theory,
language is related to thought. Writing is
described as a creative process wherein the
writer may experience new thoughts,
increased awareness, and knowledge. 1,2,3,4
• Writing down one’s own ideas opens a
channel that allows a person to become
acquainted with his or her own thinking
potential. 2,3,6,7,9
17. Blogging vs. Journaling
• Journaling requires paper and a pen,
where blogging requires a computer,
tablet, or smart phone
• When journaling, one must think quite
precisely of what they want to write
• Once it is written down, it is permanent
• When blogging, have the ability to delete
text, add more content, or delete entire
Post
18. Blogging vs. Journaling
• There is a danger of losing or damaging
your journal; with blogging you can
backup and save your Posts
• More security with blogging
• Have the ability to keep blog 100% private,
so only you can read it or add a secure
password to share with close family and
friends
19. Blogging vs. Journaling
• Can add images, YouTube videos, and
hyperlinks into Posts to enhance the
content
• Ability to go back and add additional
thoughts or updates to already posted blog
entries
• Read comments from people who have
found your blog, and how it has helped
them; become a virtual mentor
20. Getting Started
• All you need is an e-mail address
• Many free blog options, as well as paid
memberships
• WordPress, Blogger, Blog.com, Blogspot, to
name a few
• Ability to blog from a computer, laptop, tablet,
e-mail, and smart phone
• Preferred CMS: WordPress
21. Creating Your Blog
• On your PC or Laptop, go to
wordpress.com
• Click the blue [Create Website] button
22. Creating Your Blog
• Type in your site name
• Example: bpoftheusa.wordpress.com
• Click the blue [Create your Site and
Continue] button
23.
24. Creating Your Blog
• Add your Email address
• Create a Username
• Set a Password
• Click the blue [Next Step] button
25.
26. • For Step 3 of 5, you have the option to
create a custom URL
• You’re welcome to do so, but this would
require additional costs
• To skip this step, and proceed with the free
version, click the white [No Thanks]
button
Creating Your Blog
27.
28. • Next, you can select your theme
• Your theme is the design to your new blog
• Choose a theme that fits your style
• Can always change it
• Some themes are free, while others are
Premium and require a purchase
• Once you have picked a theme, click on
the arrow below the thumbnail
Creating Your Blog
29. Set Up Your Blog
• After you pick your theme, you will see a
message to Please Verify Your Email
Address
30. Set Up Your Blog
• In your email, click the [Activate Account]
button
31. Set Up Your Blog
• You will get a green message that your
email has been verified.
32. Logging Into Your Blog
• Can access your blog from anywhere; not
specific to your own computer
• Open your browser, and go to your site:
http://www.blog.com
• At the end of your URL, add:
http://www.blog.com/wp-admin
33.
34. The Dashboard
• Overview of your entire blog
• Left sidebar allows you to configure
settings for your blog
• Quickly access areas where you create
Posts, Pages, manage comments, check
stats and change your blog’s appearance
35.
36. Post vs. Page
• A Post is comprised of the day-to-day
thoughts that make up a blog; allows for
comments and sharing
• Example: Surviving Our First Holiday
Season
• A Page is static content where you supply
information to your readers
• Example: About Me
• Both support images, links and videos
37. Post vs. Page
• Suggest first creating only a few Pages
• Will act as a preface to your blog, and
outline your individual experience
• After, create Posts as often as you
like/need to fill your blog
• No set schedule; blog when you want
38. Adding a New Post or Page
• On the left sidebar, click on Posts or Pages
• When you hover over the tab, select Add
New
• With WordPress, there are multiple ways
to create a new Post or Page
• Find which way works best for you
39.
40. Adding a New Post or Page
• If you can send an e-mail, you can create a
Page and a Post
• Ability to use the Visual setting, or HTML
code (depending on your preference)
• Can start a blog Post, save your work, and
continue at a later time
• Always have the ability to edit your Post,
even if you published it to your blog
41. Add New Post or Page
• Add your Post’s title
• Add the content of your blog Post
• Click Preview to see what your Post would
look like, without publishing it
• When you are ready to share your Post
with the world, click the blue Publish
button
42.
43.
44. Categories and Tags
• Used for your Posts
• Way to organize your Posts for
manageability
• Example: If you were blogging about your
first holiday season, your Category may be
“Family Milestones” and the Tags could
be: holiday, Christmas, Chanukah, family
dinner, spirit
45.
46. Adding Images
• I always try to add an image into my Posts
• Easy to add, and great way to enrich the
blog
• Helpful when sharing Posts on Facebook;
image will appear in friends’ timelines
• Can add images into both Posts and Pages
47. Adding Images
• Above the toolbar, click on the button Add
Media
• Browse your local computer for the image
you want to add
• Can also drag and drop files into Insert
Media modal
• Allowed file types: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, pdf,
doc, ppt, odt, pptx, docx, pps, ppsx, xls,
xlsx
48.
49.
50.
51. Adding Images
• After your image finishes uploading, you
can edit the image information as much or
as little as you like
• Give your image a title, alternative text,
caption and description
• Pick your alignment, and select the perfect
size
• Make sure you click Insert Into Post
52.
53.
54. Editing an Image
• After you have added the image to your
Page or Post, you have the ability to edit or
delete it
• While editing your Post, click on the image
you added
• A small toolbar will appear above the
image.
• Click on the pencil icon
55.
56. Editing an Image
• Under DISPLAY SETTINGS, you can
update the alignment of the image
• Use the drop-down menu to adjust the size
• You can update the link that the image
points to
• Under ADVANCED OPTIONS, you can use
CSS to edit the border and margins
• When done, click the blue [Update] button
57.
58. Managing Comments
• Can accept comments on Pages and Posts,
but traditionally used just on Posts
• Can moderate comments before they are
shared on your site
• Click Comments on the left sidebar of your
Dashboard
59.
60.
61. Managing Comments
• When you approve a comment, it will
appear at the bottom of your blog for
others to read
• Can reply to comments
• Ability to trash comments, or mark as
spam
• Can edit comments to remove private or
personal information you don’t want to
share
62.
63. Publicizing Your Blog Posts
• Share your blog with friends and family
• Can automatically publish your new blog
Posts to Facebook, Google+, Twitter,
LinkedIn, Tumble, and Path.
• On the left sidebar, go to Settings >
Sharing
• Next to each social media icon, click the
[Connect] button to set up the connection
64.
65.
66. Publicizing Your Blog Posts
• When you publicize, have the option to
add your own introduction before posting
• With Facebook, when you share your Post
and use an image, it will be featured in
your update
• Increase chances people will click link,
versus no image and just text
67.
68.
69. What To Blog About
• Anything you want; no right or wrong
answer
• Be cautious of using overly personal
information
• Write what you feel; not what you think
people want to read
70. What To Blog About
• A particularly difficult day and what may
have caused it
• Milestones in your life (birthdays,
weddings) and how you handled them
• Memories that popped into your head
• Grief surveys
• Lost dreams
• A letter to your loved one
71. Site Stats
• Keep track of how many people view your
blog
• See where visitors are coming from
• View what search terms people use to find
your blog
• Determine how most people find you
• On the left sidebar, click on Site Stats
72.
73.
74.
75. What’s Next?
• August 17th will be five years since Jenn’s
passing
• Would enjoy writing a book that shares my
personal grief story from the point of view
of a sibling
• Share my journey in hopes that readers
identifying with me, apply feelings and
emotions to their own journey
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