Here are the slides from my talk at WordCamp Boston yesterday. Thank you to everyone who came to my talk, I hope you enjoyed it and found at least one tip that is useful to you. For those of you who weren’t there, I hope these slides contain enough details to help you out as well. Some of the points covered broader topics for discussion, but some contain enough details on the slides that you should be able to find a plugin, widget, or configuration setting to help you execute the tip.

1. Tom’s Top Ten Tips for Blogging with WordPress @tomcatalini www.TomCatalini.com #wcbos

2. Talk Overview Ten tips, a few minutes on each Interactive discussion, ideas from the crowd Q&A, blog talk Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

3. 1. Titles & SEO 6. Track your stats 2. Images grab attention 7. Organize 8. Invite subscribers 3. Write “bloggy” 9. Show off the good stuff! 4. Make posts shareable 10. Post ideas & scheduling 5. Auto Tweet Posts too! Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

4. Tip #1 – Permalinks for SEO Configure this before you start blogging Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

5. Tip #1 – Example Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

6. Tip #2 – Finding and using images Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

7. Flickr & Creative Commons Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

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10. Flickr URL Attribution Link to photo Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

11. Adjust size Give it some space Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

12. Tip # 3 – Writing Style Don’t bury the lead Use a conversational tone Be brief Break things up visually Vary sentence length Loosen up the grammar grip http://www.tomcatalini.com/website-101-how-to-write-in-that-bloggy-style/ Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

14. Turn off for pages

15. Normal to large size

16. Include in RSS feedTom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

17. Tip #5 – Auto-tweet your posts WP to Twitter plugin Tons of configuration options I keep it simple, post title and url Need to authorize for Twitter, bit.ly Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

18. Tip #6 – Track Your Stats Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress Google Analytics: www.google.com/analytics WordPress plugin: Google Analytics for WordPress

19. Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress WordPress Stats: www.wordpress.com WordPress plugin: WordPress.com Stats

20. Tip #7 – Organize! (at least a little) When readers get to your site, what are they supposed to do? Make it easy and obvious for them to browse around Use categories when you post Build menus from categories Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

21. Category-based menus, an example Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

22. Categories Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

24. Add categories

25. Drag & Drop to arrange

27. Feedburner Services & Stats Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

28. Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress Setup in Feedburner Then configure WP to redirect via theme or plugin

29. Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress Inserted by plugin: What Would Seth Godin Do?

30. Tip #9 – Show off the good stuff Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress PostRank Widget Social Proof More navigation options

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32. Tip #10 – Post Ideas & Scheduling Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time – carry a notepad! Build a habit of writing - the more you write, the easier it gets Get used to editing your own work – from notepad to typed, use the Preview function, review after a post goes live Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

33. Drafts & Scheduling Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

34. Drafts & Scheduling Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress

35. That’s 10! Q&A / blog talk Tom's Top Ten Blogging Tips for WordPress