Why blogging still_matters

Why Blogging MattersStill

In this session

SEO tips and tricks

The best blogging platforms

Should I monetize?

Guest and/or Ghost Blogging

How to write for more readers

Kidding!

Chat Question

So… what do you want to learn today?

Blogging is Dead…

"We are moving to collections and curations, to mobile content, and to different authoring tools. Think for a moment about the incredible popularity of Tumblr, or of Pinterest. I believe they are early iterations of the content revolution."

- Francine Hardaway, Fast Company

Blog vs. Micro-blog

High

HighLow

Frequency

Volume

Blog

Micro-blog

1.415

It’s not about the technology.

Do you blog?

Why do you blog?

Blogging and the Learning Professional

Solution to Summation

Challenge

Action

ResultBenefit

The real to the virtual to the real

Business problemOutreachSolution Share!

Doc Havis

#WOL

Why write?

experience practice

conversation reflection

Real Learning

Why did you or do you blog?

“To clarify my thinking… how am I

to know what I think if I don’t

see it?”

“writing ourselves into existence.”- Dave Weinberger

21st Century Resume

Writing Out loud

What to write?

Tom’s Restaurant on 2880 Broadway, New York by Christophe Gevrey CC BY-SA 3.0

How do you perceive bloggers?

Blog vs. Article

"Bloggers are free – nay, encouraged – to write in the first person. It gives you, the reader, a sense that I’m talking straight to you. Like we’re buddies.”

Mari Kane, Blog Site Studio

Gotta Have Thick Skin

What if nobody likes it?

What makes a blog one you will revisit?

Getting Started

Strategy

Start Think Move

Notes

Blogging in the Org

Show Your Work!

My World

Harold JarcheLife in

Perpetual Beta

Jane HartCenter for Learning

& Performance Technology

Charles JenningsThe 70:20:10

FORUM

Jay Cross The Working

Smarter Field Book

Euan SempleOrganizations Don’t

Tweet People Do

Jon HusbandWirearchy

You?

My favorite is not a public

favorite

Better for Having Begun

Write about now, right about now!