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This category explores posts related to blogging, such as writing techniques, SEO considerations, site design, or more. All blogosphere-related content.

The following content is in the blogging category:

Newsletter: Endless news cycles, style checkers, finding research, noticing things around you

What’s missing from the AI workflow: incentives for content creators to provide training data

Newsletter: Content creator ROI, Netlify, Madbot, and Hollywood

The right story for tech writers to tell in a corporate blog post

Are technical writing blogs growing or dying?

Question: Can I earn a living blogging?

Experimenting with a shorter post style

Reviewing content in DITA versus Jekyll

My Christmas wishlist on Techwhirl

The Double-Edged Sword of Hiding Controversial Information

Survey about Technical Writers and Blogging Activities

Blog Versus Web Log: Back to Origins

Building Trust in a Corporate Blog

Three Solutions to the Corporate Blogging Paradox

The Most Important Stories ... Aren't the Ones I'm Writing

Why Is Corporate Blogging So Hard?

Post-Publishing Word Count Can Be Three Times as Long

Why I'm So Visible

Content Curation versus Content Creation

Technology vs. Content, or Why Teaching WordPress Is Frustrating

Guest Post on Firehead Blog -- "Finding a Content Strategy for Your Blog"

Podcast: Finding and Creating Relevant Content -- Strategies for Social Media

Answers About the Field of Technical Writing for Students

Trust and Transparency: Leadership Day at the STC Summit #stc10

“Blogs are Still Where Substantive Conversations are Happening.”

Podcast on the seven deadly sins of blogging

The Long Tail of Online Profitability

Reinventing Yourself Through Your Blog

Being inattentive (Sins of blogging)

Being unfindable (Sins of blogging)

Being irresponsible (Sins of blogging)

Being unreadable (Sins of blogging)

Being boring (Sins of blogging)

Being irrelevant (Sins of blogging)

My STC Summit Blogging Presentation Is Free

Being fake (Sins of blogging)

STC: Quo Vadis? Mike Hughes gets introspective about the STC situation

The Content Wrangler Moves to WordPress

How Do Blogs and Wikis Fit Together?

NY Times criticized for letting Pogue maintain Apple bias

The best time to publish your blog posts

Apple blogger makes living from blog

Blogging as an Outlet for Technical Writers

Lying in a Hammock, or, Having a Single Goal without a Purpose

My STC Live Webinar on Blogging This Wednesday at 1pm

Moving Towards a Manifesto About Online Versus Print Formats

My Guest Post on Unstoppability for DMN Communications

Write Articles, Not Blog Postings (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Converting Readers from Casual Subscribers to Devoted Followers

Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and the Real Reason You Are a Successful Writer

WordPress Tip: Recording of WordPress Webinar

Making Money from Blogging

Blogging: A New Role for Technical Communicators

The Corporate Blogger Story

WordPress Tip: Introduction to WordPress -- Webinar, April 14

Jane's Presentation, Twitter for Business (podcast)

"Like My Own Personal Brand of Heroin"

Managing Your Social Media Profiles and Badges

Podcast -- Blogging for Technical Communicators Webinar (Part 1)

WordPress Tip: Rotating Flash Tag Clouds

Blogging Webinar Thursday Evening

Tip: Automatically Push Your Latest Blog Posts Across Twitter

Can SharePoint 2007 Be Used as a Help Authoring Tool?

Added a Blog Wall to my site

Upcoming Presentations, or, Blogging and Increased Visibility

Poll: What blogging software is available for use at your work?

Wrapping up 2008 – Successes, Failures, and Goals for the Next Year

WordPress Tip: Integrate WordPress into an Existing Website

Guy Kawasaki's Alltop Site Now Includes Technical Writing

Usability Newsletter Interview – I'd Rather Be Writing – The Man Behind the Words

You Can Now Advertise on My Blog

Author-it Launches a Blog -- An Interview About the Who, Why, and How

My Recommended Training for Corporate Bloggers: Live with a Mommy Blogger

Tip: Search Engine Optimize Your Blog Posts to Increase Your Readership

Watch What Happens When You Copy from Word into a Blog Post

Corporate Migration to the Blogosphere

Another Collaborative Site: Read Scriptures Together

Too Connected – Utopias and Dystopias of Communication

New Site Policy About How I Respond to Questions

When you don't feel like blogging, is it time to blog?

My First Guest Post -- And Best Writing Tip

Follow the STC Conference Twitterers at http://twemes.com/stc2008

Podcast: XSL, Flash, and Live Blogging -- Interview with Sarah O'Keefe

Giving a Virtual Presentation to STC-Phoenix on Tuesday, May 13

Podcast: Leading Your Company into the Wikis, Blogs, and Social Networks of Web 2.0

WordPress Tip: My WordPress Quick Start Guide — Now Available on the WordPress Codex

Updated Date and Time for WordPress Course -- Wednesday Evening, April 30

WordPress for Beginners Course -- Wednesday Evening, April 30

Why Software Applications Need Product Blogs, and Why They Don't Get Them

How Much Time Do You Spend in Web 2.0 -- Interesting Article from the Read/Write Web

Looking for Corporate Examples of Web 2.0 Engagement

Podcast -- Social Networking and the Value of User Communities for Technical Communicators

Guest Post -- From Blogging Veterans: Three Keys to Successful Blogging

The Right Way and Wrong Way to Teach People WordPress: Notes from a Wordcamp Utah Planning Meeting at Applebees

NY Times Article Suggests Effects of Blogging = Weight Loss/Gain, Sleep Disorder, Exhaustion, Heart Disease, and Nervous Breakdown

How to Get Your Blog Mentioned in the Society for Technical Communication's Intercom: Include the Word "Technical Communicator"

The Best and Worst of Times with a Hard Headed Woman

Twitter Tools and Uses: The Most Comprehensive Listing of Twitter Resources I've Seen

A Creepy Widget I Absolutely Had to Add to My Blog

How to Get Everyone and Their Dog/Family/Friends Reading and Subscribing to Your Blog -- 10 Tips

I'm Planning to Offer WordPress Training -- Are You Interested?

Are You One of the 824 Technical Communicators on Ning Yet?

Lots of 2008 SXSW Podcasts Now Available

My 5 Pet Peeves with Reading Blogs (mostly surrounding comments and feeds)

Deciding When to Speak Up and When to Shut Up

How to Record Live Presentations with the Zoom H4 Digital Recorder

My Blogging and Podcasting Presentation -- the MP3 and Video Recording

Stoking the Creative Muse: How Finding Ideas to Write About Is Similar to Remembering Your Dreams

How My BlackBerry May Benefit You

CNN Producer Fired for His Blog -- A Growing Discontent for Mainstream Media

Have a Blog? a Podcast? Want one? Come learn everything you need to know

Two New Blogs to Add to Your Reader: Craig Haiss' Helpscribe and Sharon Burton's Madcap Blog

Survey Results: How I'm Changing My Blog Based on Your Responses

Will you take my short survey?

Answering Questions on the "Practicalities of Blogging"

Notes from My First WordPress Meetup

Blogging Jobs for Technical How-to Articles

WordPress Meetup in Salt Lake City with Matt Mullenweg

"Regular Sloggers Trying to Make a Living"

Three Notable Characteristics of Top 10 Posts: Lists, Headings, Images

Malcolmn Gladwell's Blink: Your First Impression Is Usually Correct in Complex Situations

Why Some Leaders Don't Blog: The Untold Story

"The great new tool for writing a book today is a blog ..."

My Blog and Podcast Site Are Now Merged into One -- Steps on How I Did It

The Hardest Part About Blogging: Coming Up With Something Interesting to Say

Implementing WordPress 2.3's New Tagging Feature

Counterpoints to "7 Blogging Beginner Mistakes"

LunarPages Sponsors the Tech Writer Voices Podcast

New WordPress Plugin Enables One-Click Installation of Plugins and Themes

News Posts versus Thought Posts

A blog worth adding to your feeds -- and reasons why

My Shared Items from Google Reader

A Quick Way to Unsubscribe from Feeds in Google Reader

Cool Example of AJAX in a Blog -- Increases Usability

My online absence isn't a permanent vacation

Making Special, Hidden Categories Separate From Your Home Page and Feed

Counterargument to the Importance of Categories in Blogs

Accessibility for Blogs? New Audio Feature: Listen to Posts

Converting Your WordPress Blog into a CMS (Content Management System)

Google Reader's Shared Items Feature -- Allows You to Easily Share Selected Posts from Your Feeds

Survey Results of My Blog's Readership and My Accompanying Analysis

TechCrunch Founder Interview on iinnovate -- Arrington Talks About How Blogging Is a Treadmill

Everything Is Miscellaneous -- The Problem with Classifying Information

Writing Style to Keep in Mind for Blog Posts -- Be Clearer Than Usual, State Main Point Up Front

How Information Travels in the Blogosphere -- a funny anecdote

Who are you? A one-question survey to identify my readers

How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds -- Thoughts and Reactions

Installing Multiple Versions of WordPress on the Same Account, But Masking Them to Appear as Different Domains

Alan Houser Starts a Blog -- Check Out the Group Wellesley Wire

Blog Carnivals and my 'Makes-Me-Smile Monday' Post

Calling All Tech Writing Bloggers: List Your Blog in the New Tech Writing Blog Directory Wiki

Neil Perlin Enters Blogosphere and Gives Away Free Flare Stylesheets

How Blogs Dominate Google — One Highly-Linked-To Blog Can Rule the World

If you missed my presentation, here it is online (delivered through WordPress)

WordPress Plugins: Take Your Blog's Functionality To a New Level

New Theme Viewer: 39 WordPress Themes I Like

WordPress Themes Crash Course: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started with Themes

Unraveling the Geologic Stratum of the Blogosphere: Why We Blog

RockYou—Create Dynamic Slideshows with Music for Your Site

Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog — Condensed from Dozens of Bloggers' Experiences

A Case for Corporate Transparency: How Channel 9 Changed Microsoft from the Darth Vader of Tech to Downright Visionary

Answering Reader's Question: Can you give me a little information about the blogging section of your Web site?

Three New Features for this Blog: a Post Index, Inbound Links Display, and Public Web Stats

Corporate Blogging: Five Rules for Success in the Blogosophere

TECHWR-L and Technical Editing SIG Implement Drupal and WordPress

Nine Lessons for Would-be Bloggers -- Great Advice from Josh Porter on Overcoming Blogging Hangups

Microformats and the Semantic Web

Starting Your Own Blog: Tips for Non-profits

OPML Files — What Feeds Are You Following?

Integrating Google Adsense into this Blog

Guy Kawasaki's Impossible Burden: After Blog and E-mail, There's No Time to Write the Book

Blogging for Your Future Employer

Are Newsletters Dead?

10 Ways to Make Your Blog More Appealing

Take Clyde's Blogging Survey

Forrester Podcast Recommended — Web 2.0 Is About Building Relationships

Blogs that Lose Direction and Go from Blog to Blah?

Tips from the Frederator: Pursue Life's Passion Online, and Blog Often, Short, and with Pics

Allure of New Media Requires Strict Bedtime Control or Else Sleep Deprivation Will Set In

WordPress 2.1 Released -- This is a major release

Survey on Blogging -- Darren Barefoot

Technorati Blogosphere Report -- 1.3 million new posts per day, so what are people writing about?

Reading Blogs versus Reading Traditional Print Media

Preview Images of Link Destinations with Snap

Podcasting article in STC Intercom magazine

Talkr service converts text-only blogs into podcasts

Google Talk

WIFM and Blogging

The Concept of Trackbacks

New Look and New Approach to Blog/Podcast

Why Blogger is more popular than WordPress: Ease of Use

Firefox and Deepest Sender are superior to IE7

The coolest thing ever -- Total Tech Writer Blog Aggregation

Getting Ideas for Your Blog: Oneword.com

Corporate Blogging

Wordpress releases first official Wordpress Multi-User Edition

Advantages of using Wordpress for blogging

Using the Yahoo Maps API

FTCC launches its site and call for entries today

Why this blog, separate from the Suncoast Blog?

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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