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After a little bit of prompting, and a few requests, I’ve pulled the chapters of the “ Good Blogging Guide ” into a complete PDF booklet. You can now download the whole thing as a PDF and read it at your leisure, and share with colleagues. Chapter One
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Following on from the Good Blogging Guide series last month, I’ve been keeping an eye on things which might change or supplement the advice. Today, I’ve come across something that adds a new dimension to the ‘ blogging code of practice ’ section. The
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Since last summer, when I’d somehow won the Computer Weekly “Public Sector IT Blog of the Year” award for 2008 (for the UK Schools blog ), I’d been asked to run a series of internal, and then external, workshops, and been invited to speak at others’ events
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Hopefully this is the chapter you’ll never need. So I’ll make it short! Imagine the scenario. You have been blogging for a while, and you have the support and encouragement of other people in your school/local authority. Things are looking good. What
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This isn’t a reference to litigation, or any of the legalities of blogging (for things of that flavour, read Friday’s post on a blogging code of practice ). Nope, this is about writing style. It’s about being clear and simple. The title ‘No Lawyers Please’
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On Wednesday I wrote a blog post on how to improve your blog’s position in search engines , as part of my “Good Blogging Guide” series. It was all about search engine optimisation for blogs , and gave some simple to follow strategies. My goal was to demystify
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We’re moving along now on the ‘Good Blogging Guide’, having looked at audience , objectives , and search engine optimisation for blogs . But these three areas are about things that you do. There’s another aspect that is important too – about the environment
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I think this chapter of my “Good Blogging Guide” could be a book in it’s own right – and there are plenty of books which just cover this subject - in fact, there are plenty of companies whose sole purpose is to sell you the answer to doing this. And I
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On we go, after yesterday’s Chapter One, on Audience, let’s hit Chapter Two – “ Have an objective ” This is going to be a very short chapter, because there are some very simple rules that you can follow to make sure that there’s actually an objective
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This week, instead of enjoying a trip to Seattle, I’m sitting in the UK with some free time in my diary (although not as much as I hoped, as people have moved quickly to fill it!) . The result is that I can get around to some of those “ I really want
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