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Length: 30 min.

This podcast is a recording of the Blogging for Technical Communicators webinar that I gave to the STC-Rocky Mountain chapter on February 19, 2009. I split the recording into two parts due to length. This first half covers the following four 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

Here’s the accompanying PowerPoint visual.

Note: After you listen to Part 1, be sure to continue to Part 2.

Links Mentioned in the Webinar

At some point during the webinar (either first or second part) I mentioned the following sites. Here are links to each:

• Writer River
• All in One SEO pack WordPress plugin
• Self-hosted WordPress
• Freely hosted WordPress
• Sharon Burton’s Blog
• Twitter
• Digg
• Stumble Upon
• Delicious
• WordPress Consulting
• Whataboutmomblog.com
• Zyblog Social plugin
• John Hewitt’s Poewar.com
• Erasmus
• WordPress Weekly
• Google Reader
• Twitterfeed
• Feedburner
• Penelope Trunk, The Brazen Careerist, “How to build a career as an artist”
• Poewar’s series on his career as a technical communicator
• Webworks
• Lorelle.wordpress.com
• Akismet
• The Content Wrangler
• What would Seth Godin do plugin
• ITauthor podcast
• Where to find cool looking WordPress themes
• What plugins to use

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Tags: Blogging, content generation, search engine optimization, SEO

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