How to enhance your blog: call for suggestions for our conference session
Maxine Clarke
Thursday, 03 July 2008 15:37 UTC
Once you have decided to blog, what kind of blog do you choose? Blogging within a network, blogging on a stand-alone platform, group blogging, or microblogging, all have advantages and disadvantages. However you blog, it is all about communication and conversation, and at ScienceBlogging 2008 we’ll be revealing some of the things you can do to increase your internet presence, whether you are just a bit of a magpie (Maxine), a bedroom coder (Euan), or at some point inbetween. There are a range of topics we could include, for example:
- RSS – what it is, how you use it and how it helps manage the information overload;
- how to share your favourite posts with friends and vice versa;
- linking to other sites, such as Digg or Technorati;
- making money out of your blog (Adsense);
- use of media (podcasts, video);
- how to archive (protect) your blog;
- basic template, format and HTML coding.
We can’t cover all these topics in a brief hour, so we are starting this forum entry to ask you:
which of these topics interests you most?
what is your preferred format for the session (talk, Q/A, demo, discussion, other)?
have we missed anything?
Please let us know your opinions now so that we can factor them into the session. Or call for reinforcements.
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Euan, dummies guide would be fine… we could demo/plug some technologies that use microformat/RDFa/etc, such as Operator, userscripts, etc. And we could easily write up some simple tutorial on how to add RDFa to blogger.com blogs, and maybe another main provider. Those who run Wordpress should have no problem with the technologies anyway…
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Thanks for all the suggestions; we look forward to more.
I am very happy to talk about the very basic things, such as how to set up a blog and how to set up/use an RSS reader. I am sure Euan would love to talk about these more advanced issues.
I agree about Technorati: apart from the good points made already, there seem to be issues with the site’s stability.
I did not get on very well with StumbleUpon but this could be (probably is) due to my technical incompetence, so I will hope to learn something from my co-presenter on that!
I would also like to know if anyone can yet recommend a way to track comments collectively that one has made on various blogs and networks. I’ve tried co-comment and the other one with a very similar name, but find them both cumbersome and not to support all platforms.
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