Get busy blogging!

Roll up your sleeves and wade in, gang! Launch that blog and make at least one post on any topic and of any length (though note that most entries weigh in from 100-500 words in this medium).

Also, please turn in one assignment by Tuesday at midnight, containing these elements:
1. Why is this blog important? (25 words or less)
2. Who cares (target audience)? (25 words or less)
3. What skills do I bring to this subject? (25 words or less)
4. What community is my blog building? (25 words or less)
5. What's my mission statement? (25 words or less)
6. Note your URL, so we can add your site to the blogroll

Please submit in the assignment folder. Each week has a separate bin, such as Assignment One, Introduce Your Blog. Please file accordingly – and check back in the same area for our comments late on Thursdays (or sometimes early, early Fridays PST).

Very personal questions can be sent via email: Mike and Amanda. But we much prefer chatting in the classroom, where everyone can benefit – and where spam folders don't lurk. Chances are, if you're panicking about image insertion on Blogger, someone else is too. And then we can inform y'all that we're covering that next week...

Ask questions in your Student folder, in the Q&A bin or via the comments here on the blog site. We've tried to create a lot of avenues into the information: what folks in the industry call "points of entry". So you'll see a list of recent comments, my conversations and active forum topics on the classroom site's sidebar. You can also view the whole list of forums. The site alerts you to new material.

Misplace a thread? Search or check low on the sidebar for "recent posts" under your name.

1. Target audience
2. Keep the home court advantage
3. Who was that masked blogger?
4. Bios: should you claim that blog?
5. Kicky bios and other profile tactics
6. SEO starter-kit – Master the headline
7. Oh, behave, with your bad headline self!
8. Organizing blog material
9. Intro to blog design: template primer
10. Search capacities for your blog
11. Adding, deleting and repositioning sidebar elements
12. Archiving your blog
13. Hang on, what's a blogroll? Sushi?
14. Stop skeezy link farms now!
15. Hey, I want one of those blogroll things!
16. Feature context and original content high
17. Matching design to content
18. Linktasia – connecting your blog to the larger world
19. How to link and create permalinks
20. The importance of art
21. Photo preparation for your blog
22. How to upload an image
23. Hear Amanda's headcold in almost real-time!
24. Assignment week two
25. Blogger Settings Explained
26. Tools for Writing Posts
27. Photo Software Advice
28. Web-friendly Image Formats and Compression
29. Troubleshooting Image Compression