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Audience: First time Bloggers

• Blogging Examples
o What is a Blog? Why Blog?
o Dave Barry’s Blogging Joke and Cartoons
o Model Blog Sites

• Create a Blog
o How to choose a Blogging Platform. Free Blogs. www.blogger.com
o Create your first blog your email account
o Choose a template. Enter User Information. Complete User Description
o Post your first entry. Publish and view your blog

• Upload Images
o Upload images using www.blogger.com
o Upload images from www.flickr.com. Upload from the www
o Use images as a hyperlink

• Customize your Blog
o Edit Sidebars and use Custom Templates
o Blog writing tips
o Rebeeca Blood’s 10 Writing Tips
o Blog Ethics.

• Special Blogging Features
o Using Sitemeter.
o Promote your blog using blogroll and trackbacks
o Using Google Adsense. RSS feeds and Aggregators

• How to Make Money with Blogging
o How bloggers make money (problogger.com)
o Finding and attracting an audience. Things to avoid: What works and
doesn’t work
o How to optimize your blog on search engines

• Blogging Resources
o Blog tracking directories. (Blo.gs, Technorati, Livejournal
o Online Blogging Tutorials
o Blog Portals and Online Communities
o Books about Blogging