A talk given at Pittsburgh Podcamp 8, Oct 5, 2013. In the talk, I use the five years of blogging as thomascwaters.com as a case study for what has and hasn't worked as a blogger.
1. An Activist blog after five
years.
Thomas Waters, October 5, 2013
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4. This session
There is plenty of resources to help someone just
getting started, but what about after that?
How do you take a blog that is not a newbie blog
and get it to keep growing/succeeding?
Technical Stuff
Content
Blogging as a lifestyle
5. Why blog?
Content Marketing
News/Journalism
Opinion Editorial
Personal voice- diary/1st person accounts
Community Building/Educational
ASPIRATION BLOGS:
The Dish/ Andrew Sullivan
AmericaBlog/ John Arovosis
15. Lessons Learned...
Blog design
Evaluate your theme. What do you
want your UX to be?
Don’t be afraid that you aren’t enough
of a geek.
Adjust your blog as it works for you.
Don’t adjust a good process simply to
fit your software/theme restrictions.
16. Lessons Learned...
Expectations
Know what you consider to be your
goal(s) so you can decide if you are
meeting these goals.
You can take a break and not have your
blog die.
Social media: don’t mistake being on
social media for your blogging.