1. Blogging for Beginners

2. Contents Understand blogging and blogs Join Blogger.com Create a blog
Post
Change template
Edit post
Widgets
RSS feeds

3. What is a blog?
Platform
Not a web
Ease and immediacy
Date - recent

4. Why blog? Have presence Share information Develop community
Publicise matters
Say something
Receive comments

5. Costs Time – can be slow Money – $0.00 and R0.00
Where they make their money - ???

6. Interface Year Open a month Get comments Postings Side bar Widgets
Footer
Dates
Tags
Atom

7. Join
Use Blogger as it is part of the Google stable – can link to Reader, Gmail, etc.
Name must be short, clear, one word, meaningful, no caps, memorable

8. Select Template
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9. Complete profile Do not be silly Privacy important Identity theft
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10. Create a post / publish / view / edit
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11. Change colours, fonts and sizes
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12. Do - More Create posting – do in Word and paste to blog
Insert an image – position it

13. Insert image

14. Links Create posting and link to any web page
Always have text description for image and video
Create posting and link to image in Flikr
Create posting and link to movie in Youtube

15. Do - Edit
Edit titles
Edit labels
Edit text

16. Widgets Talking Avatars, e.g. http://www.voki.com/ Visitor statistics
Weather
Google map
Calendar
Poll, e.g.
Go online and look for Blog widgets
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17. Adding elements – Widgets 1

18. Adding elements - Widgets 2