Blogging and education. Created for BTB Online - Build your Teaching Business Online - massive open online course. In this slideshow/webinar, Sylvia shows you how to leverage your blog to make it powerful, social and sustainable. She shows how focus and passion create the synergy needed for long-term achievement. This slideshow also highlights tools, social sharing environments and plug-ins for easily customising your blog and website. She will share crucial perspectives on capturing the blogosphere mindset and becoming an influential voice in your field. To fully get the gist please watch the embedded recording.

1. How To Leverage Your
Blogging Presence !
You’ve got
the blog…..
Do you know
how to use
it?
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2. Image Credit: JeramiahOwyang

3. Image credit: Eran Sandler

4. Vision
Growth Business

5. … of popularity versus substance.
“Ultimately however, I believe one should have
faith in what they write. One should be able to
tell themselves: ‘Yes – I think what I write is
good’ – regardless of whether it gets many ‘hits’
or not.
It is of course important to take account of
feedback
(‘Why are people not reading what I write?’)
but faith is more important.”
Nick Michelioudakis

6. Image credit: Darren Kurapatwa
Forge your
determination

7. Principle as seen in ProBlogger

8. Purpose?
Pleasure?
Image credit: Winniefred xoxo

9. Successful Writer Reader

10. Or
Why don’t you?
Information
Facts
‘How to’
Inspiration
Ideas
Stories
Confirmation?
Validation
Personal Learning
Nerwork

11. Will anyone read my blog?

12. That depends on
Who you are…
So..

13. Narrow niche ?
Broad
niche ?

14. “Analytical & emotional”
“What type of blog are you drawn to”?
Core
niche

15. Which topic area excites you most?

16. • Lesson plans, study advice
• Show case courses, learning stories
Student-centred
• Lesson creation, materials design
• Professional development stories and
reflections.
Teacher-centred
• Monetise content
• Free content
• Community content
Niche
content

18. Blogosphere Tools
PLN
Need
to
Know
Pleasure
and purpose

19. Social media
Blogosphere
Image creditt: Dave bleasdale
Social Learning Platforms Virtual learning Communities

20. Visit/comment
Interview/review
Challenge Guest blog
Host

23. Dynamic
image &
professional
identity
Globally
Recognised
Avators
Cyber
signature
https://en.gravatar.com/

25. https://disqus.com/

26. https://wordpress.org/plugins/commentluv/

27. DiggDigg
https://shareaholic.com/
Social media Feather

28. Visual composer

29. MOOCs
Students
Presenters Bloggers

30. Social layers Your Blog Will Love
https://developers.google.com/+/web/badge/

31. Profile Blogs

32. Mad Mimi

33. • Social feeds
• visuals Tackk
• Reshaping newsfeeds
• Moulding your social story Storify
• Viral communities
• collaborative Listly

34. Embed Pearl Trees
My
Pearls

35. Embed powerpoints from Slideshare

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