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Blogging Webinar Thursday Evening

by Tom Johnson on Feb 18, 2009
categories: blogging technical-writingwordpress

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:

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

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

  1. Blogging webinar Part 1
  2. Blogging webinar Part 2

About Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson

I'm an API technical writer based in the Seattle area. On this blog, I write about topics related to technical writing and communication — such as software documentation, API documentation, AI, information architecture, content strategy, writing processes, plain language, tech comm careers, and more. Check out my API documentation course if you're looking for more info about documenting APIs. Or see my posts on AI and AI course section for more on the latest in AI and tech comm.

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