The document discusses blogging as a type of social media where people can share their news, daily lives, hobbies, children and more through regular blog posts. It provides examples of popular blogs like Julie Powell's blog where she documented cooking every recipe from Julia Child's cookbook and Heather Armstrong's blog Dooce where she shares about her life, depression, and relationships. The document then gives tips for getting started with blogging by choosing a free platform like Blogger or WordPress, setting up basic pages and features, and getting visitors by sharing the blog on social networks and commenting on other blogs.

1. Blogging for Pleasure

3. News – YOUR news!

4. Blogging is a type of Social Media

6. Dooce – Heather Armstrong Love Her, Hate Her…She’s Popular ABCNews.com reports she makes $40K a MONTH in ad sales! First blog post Feb. 2001: A poem about Carnation Milk Present Day: Over 5,300 posts – from her battle with depression, guy who talked like Elmo during sex, breast milk pumps, etc. Featured by Forbes as one of 30 honorees on list of “Most Influential Women in Media for 2009” http://www.dooce.com/

7. So What do YOU have to share? Your hobbies Daily life (stories, trips, poems, events, etc.) Children / grandchildren Pictures / videos My Son and His Big Hair

8. Hobby Blog About Hostas

9. Video, Family and Life Blog

10. Video and Socially Integrated Blog

12. Blogger

13. TypePad

15. Set-Up Options Adding (connecting) your blog to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Adding Additional Pages in addition to the blog Creating an RSS by Email Option Add in your favorite pictures with Flickr

16. Getting Visitors Send emails to friends and family with your blog URL (website address) Add a intro snippet and URL to your email signature Connect your blog to Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn profiles Visit other people’s blogs and comment – most will reciprocate

18. Connect www.Twitter.com/mmangen http://www.facebook.com/michelle.mangen http://www.linkedin.com/in/michellemangen http://www.thevirtualasst.com/blog