3. The Big Picture Frame
• Presentation
• Follow up Assignment
• Reflection Questions
• 5 Sessions
• Web Resource Page
4. Session 2: How To Use Blogging Platform
Session 3: The Art of Blog Writing
Session 4: Blogging: Building your
blogsphere radar
Session 5: Incorporating Bookmarks,
Photos, and Videos
5. Learning Objectives
• Why reading/commenting important
• How to use RSS Reader
• How to find blogs to read
• How to comment thoughtfully on blogs
19. Defining Your Beat
List your top three topics in your
beat
For each one, get more specific and
list three top sub-topics in that
beat
Extra credit: If you are already
reading blogs, include three blogs
that you enjoy reading about
your topic and why.
25. • How to set up bloglines
• How to add the subscribe
bookmarklet to their browser
• How to subscribe to a blog
• How to organize and
reorganize folders
33. Good RSS Habits
• Set up aside a small block of time to read
your feeds everyday
• Clean house often, RSS subscriptions
tend to pile up
• Don't feel like you have to read every post
on every blog, use the quot;Mark Readquot; option
35. Do this first …
•Check out the blogrolls of
blogs you are reading
•Follow the links to other blogs
from the blogs you are reading
and add them to your reader
•Follow the links to other blogs
from people who comment on
the blogs you are reading
37. • Who's the author?
• Is the blog updated often?
• How long have they been blogging?
• How many community affiliations? (Flickr,
widgets, blogrools, badges, etc)
• Are there lots of comments?
• Is the writing good?
Accurate? Authentic?
• Is there content that you might
incorporate into a blog post?
• If you decide to add it to your reader,
check the side bar (or blog roll) for other
similar blogs
39. Before you start searching
Keyword Why? What do you want
to know?
RSS Reader Improve organization of How can I be efficient
feeds reading blogs? How to
organize my feeds?
Create a spreadsheet or open a word document so you can take notes
40.
41. How is this different Google Search?
•Fewer Results
•Easily filter results to see what
people are saying within last hour
•You can subscribe via RSS
46. • Commenting is the life blood of blogging
and key to building a community
• They’re a way to get more minds into the
story.
• They’re a way to annotate someone’s
thoughts such that the ideas can take on
another dimension.
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49.
50. Read someone's blog post and start a
conversation:
Before you leave a comment, ask yourself:
•What did they say well?
•What did they miss?
•Answer questions
•What are other people saying
•How does it apply to you
•Look forward
•Look backward
•Ask what if?
51. ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT TIME
1. Set up a RSS reader if you don’t already use
one
2. Add at least 5 blogs to your reader using the
starter pack
3. Think about a strategy for organizing,
adding, and pruning
4. Add at least 5 blogs by referral
5. Add at least 5 blogs by searching on
Technorati or Google Blog Search
6. Add one or more Google Blog Searches to
your feeds