Category Archives: Blogging 101
Writing professionally: Do you really want to?
I get a lot of emails from a friends, colleagues, acquaintances, or random strangers asking me how to get started writing. Since the question comes up a lot, I thought it might be worth a post here. Maybe it will help some of the people who haven't asked yet, or at least it'll give me [...]
Blogging 101: Take a Tip from Newswriting with the Five W's
Who? When? Why? What? Where? How? If you don't answer those questions, why bother blogging at all?
The "Five W's" as they're often called (and one H) are drilled into every journalism student as crucial for news-writing. Who is involved? When did it happen? Where did it happen? How and why did it happen? And, for [...]
Also posted in Front Page, Journalism, Linux.com, Open Source, PR and marketing, Writing, openSUSE Tagged blogging, marketing, pr, Social Media 1 Comment
Tracking traffic?
I've been playing with some of the different programs to track stats on my blog lately to try to get a real idea how many visitors per day I get, which posts are most popular, etc. It becomes obvious very quickly that counting page views and traffic is not trivial:
Using awstats, WordPress.com Stats, and Google [...]
Also posted in Browsers, Lazyweb, Writing 2 Comments
Wait until you feel like writing
And you'll never get anything written. Well, very little, anyway.
Some days you wake up and feel like cranking out words like there's no tomorrow. You don't want to write, you need to write. You've got something to say and until you say it, you're going to be distracted until it gets done. This can be [...]
Blogging 101: Conducting interviews for media