As an experiment, I've made a short screencast of the upload process. Is this helpful or is it too darn small? I welcome feedback via the comments.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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Co-taught by a geek and an author, this Writers.com ten-week class
provides a blog beginner with the tools to grow more serious.
Lectures and Articles
Blogging Lectures
- Lesson Ten: Protecting Content and Yourself -- NEW!
- Lecture 9: Money Makes the World Go Round
- Lecture Eight: Photo finesse and advanced geekery
- Lecture 7: Shaping Short Narratives & Strong Thematic Posts
- Lecture Six – Step into the Spotlight.
- Lecture five: Other Voices, Other Rooms.
- Lecture four: Meet the reader
- Lecture 3: Strong content is key
- Lecture Two: Start the Presses
- Lecture One: Explore the Publishing Frontier
- About Tips & Tricks Articles
- Blogger Settings Explained
- Tools for Writing Posts
- Photo Software Advice
- Web-friendly Image Formats and Compression
- Troubleshooting Image Compression
- Tell Google About Your Blog
- Adding Google Analytics to your Blogger blog
- Pages in Blogger (finally!)
- NEW: Customizing your blog: Custom header images and good SEO
- NEW: Wrangling Google Analytics
- NEW: Deconstructing a URL
- NEW: Customize your blog: three-column layouts
Tips & Tricks
Student shout-out
Other online efforts
ADS? SAY WHAT?
During this workshop, we'll explore how to "monetize" – to indulge in some vile jargon – blogs. AdSense plays a role in that, so we've decided to demo it: practicing what we preach... Earnings will go into source materials and the instructors' IPA (India Pale Ale) fund. Teaching, after all, is thirsty work.
Labels
- 10Lecture (15)
- 9 Lecture (12)
- admin (2)
- advertising (5)
- aggregators (1)
- Analytics (3)
- archive (1)
- assignment (9)
- attracting audience (5)
- audio (1)
- authors (2)
- backup (1)
- bios (3)
- blog books (2)
- blog history (9)
- Blogroll (3)
- book deals (2)
- branding (20)
- building community (10)
- cameras (1)
- citizen journalism (12)
- class admin (20)
- class business (2)
- commentary (2)
- comments (2)
- compression (1)
- context (3)
- copyright (12)
- Creative Commons (8)
- crowdsourcing (1)
- CSS (1)
- custom header (1)
- design (13)
- Digital Millennium Copyright Act (2)
- domain names (3)
- ethics (3)
- evolving as a writer (5)
- expertise (2)
- Facebook (1)
- freeconomics (5)
- Future of Media (4)
- Future of the Media (6)
- gear (1)
- getting started (6)
- header (2)
- headlines (3)
- How the Web works (2)
- image compression (5)
- image editing (5)
- images (23)
- intellectual property (6)
- interview (3)
- layout (1)
- Lecture 1 (27)
- Lecture 2 (25)
- Lecture 3 (16)
- Lecture 4 (11)
- lecture 5 (18)
- Lecture 6 (9)
- Lecture 7 (18)
- lecture 8 (16)
- lede (3)
- legal issues (4)
- link farm (2)
- links (7)
- mainstream media (1)
- Meme (3)
- monetization (8)
- multimedia (1)
- narrative nonfiction (5)
- news (2)
- nut graf (3)
- Open Source (3)
- opinion (1)
- original content (13)
- pacing (5)
- PageRank (3)
- Pages (1)
- paid content (5)
- pay (6)
- permalinks (1)
- photo composition (1)
- photography (1)
- photojournalism (1)
- piracy (6)
- plot (3)
- podcast (1)
- post frequency (2)
- post topics (1)
- privacy (7)
- profiles (2)
- promotion (1)
- questions (1)
- readership (2)
- reporting (5)
- RSS feed (1)
- search engine optimization (9)
- self-editing (1)
- sidebar (5)
- site speed (1)
- social media (1)
- social networking (2)
- software (2)
- sources (1)
- static pages (1)
- story ideas (3)
- story sources (2)
- storytelling (6)
- strong endings (2)
- taglines (1)
- templates (4)
- themes (1)
- Tips and Tricks (12)
- trimming (1)
- Twitter (1)
- user generated content (2)
- user-generated content (1)
- video (1)
- web 2.0 (2)
- widgets (5)
- wikis (1)
- writing finesse (20)
- YouTube (1)
CLASS FORUM
Enrolled students can access the calendar and bulletin boards here. Log-in required.
About this site
Taught by a professional writer and a retired Microsoft programmer, the Blogging Frontier is a Writers.com online workshop that focuses on the art and the craft of new media. Instructors Amanda Castleman and Mike Keran guide students through the basics of setting up a blog and explain terminology. The course then launches into more advanced topics such as earning money, search engine optimization, and working with images and multimedia.
Weekly feedback includes writing critiques and technical ones, setting this ten-week course apart from similar offerings. Dates for 2010: April 21, July 28, October 27. Late-enrollment open until day ten, space permitting.
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The Instructors
PAST ISSUES
WORD UP
Drowning in lingo? Following are a few good resources:
For a more in-depth answer, search on "word + Wikipedia". The site contains extensive entries on tech subjects. Since the content's user-generated, journalists and academics consider it the "best place to start and the worst place to stop" research-wise. But to solve a quick jargon panic, Wikipedia is your friend...
Posts
1 comments:
Cool, Amanda!
Feedback: Size does matter... Also FYI, I am viewing this from a small Powerbook, 12 inches, not sure if that reduces things relatively. I did find the screen "too darn small".
Also, volume was turned all the way up but I had to strain to hear your lovely (not too head-coldy) voice...
Laura
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