Let's blug: Putting the "u" into blogging. A presentation by Amanda Kendle about creating a voice for your blog, made at the DigitalMe / Media140 conference in Perth, Western Australia, April 2012.
2. Putting the "u" into blogging ...
• What's a blog?
• Blog voice: It needs "u"
• Great blogs with lots of "u" factor
• How to get "u" into your blog
3. Need-to-know: What's a blog?
• A kind of website
• New posts regularly (daily, weekly)
• Newest post at the top
• Text, pictures, videos
• Readers can comment
• Every topic imaginable
4. Great blogs with the "u" factor
• Edenland - edenriley.com
Hey, White Girl
• Life in a Pink Fibro - lifeinapinkfibro.blogspot.com
The Woman Who Saved My Sunday
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• Why Evolution is True - whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com
An Owl is 70% Feathers
• Aussie on the Road - aussieontheroad.com
Off to China
• Styling You - stylingyou.com.au
How to Wear a Jacket
5. Secrets for putting "u" in your blog
• Blog for yourself - not trying to impress, and
don't expect everybody to like you
• Write what you'd like to read
• Blog like you talk - without the ums and aahs
• Break grammar rules (but know them first)
• Read your posts out loud
• Don't be too slang, and don't be too formal
• Be honest, be daring, be a little afraid
• Have your own style (format, word choice)
• Write from the heart, no matter what topic