Outline
for BloggerCon Day II Beginners Sessions |
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This is a session of general orientation towards what blogging is all about, and a quick and easy guide to starting your own blog. It is oriented towards Manila, as this is the tool in use on all of the Berkman Center Weblogs, but I expect that many of you will be using other software, so I will tty to keep the information general enough that everybody will take something useful home. What I really hope for is that some of the people here today will run right home and have their own blogs up and running by this evening. If that actually happens, please take a moment to let me know - it would be extremely self-validating.... OK? Well, lets get started with out tour of the Blogosphere... |
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I. | Getting Started | ||
What is a Blog? Why do I want/need a blog? Brief history of Blogging The Blogger Ethos: Types of Blogs |
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Experiencial (on-line diary) Referencial (lots of links) Analytic (expert/subject area) Educational (Course-related) Colaborative (mention WIKIs here?) |
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10 Commandments of Blogging Choosing your tools |
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On-line solutions |
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2 | Setting up a Manila Blog | ||
Berkman (since this is where the conference takes place) and Rules of Use Walk-through of create-a-blog (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/createSite/) Walk-around a new site |
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Title, subtitle Calendar Main message pane Default links, how to customize this list Descriptive paragraph Membership link: define managing editor, editor, member, user |
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Functional How-to's |
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How to post a message How to create a story How to upload a picture How to combine pictures, messages and stories How to edit something once its been posted How to add live links to postings How to change the way your blog looks How to check your blogs statistics |
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Anatomy of a Dowbrigade Posting | |||
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Introduction to aggregators and RSS How to let others subscribe to your stream Multimedia (animation, video, sound) Messing with the templates The future of blogging |
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