Tips for Blogging
July 15th, 2010This has been a busy week at the reference desk (lots of people looking for school summer reading books). I didn't have any great ideas for today's post, so I thought I'd go meta - a blog post about blogging.
Here are a whole bunch of links I've been collecting that offer tips on blogging, or blogging better, or running a blog in general. Some of them are for personal blogs, but they apply pretty well to writing for a library website.
I suppose I should read them instead of just sharing them, but it's a start:
From iLibrarian:
- 6 Ways to Constantly Produce Quality Blog Content
- 8 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers
- 13 Types of Posts that Always Get Lots of Comments
- Five Ways to Better Engage Readers on Your Blog
- Write Better Blog Posts Today
- 20 Websites That Will Make You A Better Blogger
- 101 Ways to Promote a New Blog
- How to Blog Almost Every Day
- Top 5 Business Blogging Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- 5 Rules for Better Web Writing
- 100 Ways To Improve Your Blog
- 100 Terrific Tips & Tools for Blogging Librarians
- 20 Blog Topics To Get You Unstuck
- Handling Negative Comments On Your Blog Post
- The Ultimate Blogger Writing Guide
- Why Start a Blog & How to Make it Work
- 50 Blog Topic Ideas
- Tips for Better Blogging
- Secrets of the 7 Basic Blog Posts
From Librarian in Black:
- Tips for Bloggers - a neat checklist on what to do before publishing a post
From David Lee King:
- Digital Branch Style Guide - geared for organization websites, but absolutely useful for anyone writing for the web
July 15th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
This is mighty useful to me, Brian! About to do a blogs and wikis workshop all over the state!
Thank you kindly!
(Some actually look familiar to me!)
July 16th, 2010 at 10:07 am
@Susan: You are welcome – and I’m glad to hear you’re up and running and right into the thick of things so quickly. Any workshops near Chelmsford?
July 16th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Hi Brian,
We have our CE calendar up at http://www.eventkeeper.com/code/events.cfm?curOrg=MLS&curMode=ADMIN&curMode=LOGOUT
There is an Open House at Tewksbury!
But more is coming in the fall!
Susan
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