Blogging Webinar Thursday Evening

February 18th, 2009 | Posted in Blogging, Technical Writing 5 Comments »

I’m giving a webinar on blogging tomorrow evening for the Rocky Mountain STC chapter at 7 p.m. MST. As a webinar, it’s open to everyone, not just the Rocky Mountain chapter. The cost for the remote viewing of the webinar is $10. More webinar details here.

To give you a little more preview about what I’ll cover, here are the ten main topics:

The Blog as an Expected Format
Why Bother to Blog?
Search Engine Optimization: The #1 Perceived Value of Blogging
The Most Difficult Part of Blogging: Generating Content Regularly
How Your Audience Consumes Blog Information
Key Elements of Blog Appeal: Story, Voice, Transparency, Honesty
Making the 652 Posts Findable on Your Blog
Comments — and What to Do With Them
What Happens to You When You Blog
Questions Everyone Asks About WordPress

March 3 Update: You can listen to a recording of the webinar. I split it up into two parts:

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John Daigle says:

February 22, 2009 at 10:17 am

Hi, Tom. I attended the Rocky Mountain STC meeting and enjoyed your presentation on blogging with WordPress. Somehow I had missed the part about it being a “virtual” meeting and was hoping to say hello in person.

All the STC members got a lot out of the tips and you had some excellent questions from both the “live” room as well as remote participants from the chat box.

I am just getting started in WordPress and was particularly interested in your ideas for plugins and will have to explore that some more.

Are you going to the WritersUA conference in Seattle this year? If so, I’ll be helping out in the Adobe booth talking about the new RoboHelp 8 so come by and say hello.

john

Tom says:

February 22, 2009 at 11:08 pm

Hi John,

I’m glad to hear you were among the group that heard my presentation the other night. Sorry I couldn’t have driven over there — it’s only about 6 or so hours, but it was always pitched to me as a webinar anyway.

Re plugins, check out the plugins I’m currently using: http://idratherbewriting.com/plugins. Also, you can browse all the plugins on WordPress here. Is there any specific plugin functionality that you’re looking for? There are thousands of them out there, for myriad purposes and situations.

Do you need any help with WordPress? I’ve checked out your site before and always thought it would be better as a WordPress site.

Re WritersUA, unfortunately I won’t be going there, even though I’ve heard so many good things about it.

Kelly Riley says:

February 24, 2009 at 12:19 pm

I missed your webinar (just came upon your blog for the first time today and I find it very interesting) and was wondering if it what recorded and available?

Thank you.

Tom says:

February 24, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Hi Kelly, I’ll be posting the audio from the webinar soon. Stay in touch with the blog’s feed and it should be there by this weekend.

Tom says:

March 4, 2009 at 12:32 am

Links to the webinar’s recorded audio are included in the post now.

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