Where I proceed to start in the middle and work my way backwards
Nov 20th, 2008 by kschwoe
Steps 2 & 3: Blogging
Already on step two and I find myself out of order. Oh well, forward we go! Since I’ve set up blogs before, this wasn’t very hard to do.
It is a tad confusing as to which I’m supposed to be following, the wiki or the blog, since there seems to be some more information located in the blog than there is in the wiki. Hopefully this will be cleared up at some point. The “5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang” seems like a good idea, but it seems hard to implement it since it asks for that surprise and shock factor for every post. It’s true you need an interested audience, but it seems also somewhat limited in what it offers for opening posts. I’ll may have to do some experimentation with it in later posts. I like the ten tips list, although I’ve already broken many of the suggestions on it 
And I really like the The 10 Commandments of Unique Blogging from the lost art of blogging blog.
Advanced 1:
Have to say, I was a tad disappointed with Blogadr.com. they tend to have a good lead-in in the different tutorials, but right at the end they seem to finish rather abruptly, leaving out some things that may have been useful to users. It was nice to know, though, that the additional pages you can add are static and can’t be posted to, which I had not known earlier. The Siteground link needs to be changed to this in order to have it go directly to where it should, by the way, and it seems to have some nice basic tutorials, although I have to admit I was looking more at some of the other tutorials they offer on the site. Chris’ Word Press video seemed to be a really good place for those who may not have much experience with blogs to start, as he goes through things step by step and users can just follow along. And the WordPress pdf looks nice for what it is, although I am a tad surprised that they don’t have more information on there on what you can get if you upgrade your account.
Advanced 2:
I read “Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind” and after the initial amusement of having an article talk about how people generally don’t really read articles/ block of text on a computer but just skim, I found it very relevant. Using this information on how people read online is important in being able to connect with users, as well as emphasizing the need that not everything go digital, which I think is something we need to remember. Just cause we can digitize things doesn’t mean we always should.