Here we are at Day 7 of our first week of blogging series from Problogger. Today we are going to take a step back and look at everything that we have learned in the past week and think about where we would like to take our blogs. Review Your Blog's Direction What are you looking to do with your blog? What are your short and long term goals? Hopefully actually finishing up the Guide To Your First Week of Blogging class from Problogger should have knocked a few things off that list! So now ...
#SITSClass: Cupcake Inspiration For A Blog Style Guide
Welcome to Day 6 of our latest Problogger class. It’s time to talk “style!”. We have spent a great deal of time over the past few days working on pillar ideas for new content and perhaps you have reached into your idea folder and come up with a few new posts. Now is the time to start thinking about how others will perceive your site simply by the way it looks. I’m going to liken this to walking into a nice clean cupcake shop with beautiful white cake plate towers of various colored ...
#SITSClass: More on Pillar Content & Connections
Here we are at Day 3 of our Problogger event. Our focus today is not only creating pillar content, but also working on building relationships. On Thursday, we spent a great deal of time mind mapping and coming up with some great ideas for our ideas folder. Today, we are takings things to the next level and brainstorming even more in order to expand our topic reach and break our ideas into more subtopics that might possibly lead to a post series. Expanded Pillar Content Let’s take a look ...
#SITSClass: Problogger’s Guide to Blogging
Welcome back to school with our next installment of our online Problogger class! Over the course of the next two weeks, we'll be diving into Problogger's Guide to Your First Week of Blogging eBook both here in the Education channel and in The SITS Girls discussion forum. To get caught up on anything you might have missed, read this introductory post here. Many of our participants for the next two weeks span a range of experience levels and backgrounds. Some of you are total newbies, ...
Twitter Chat Made Easy: A How to Guide
Every night there are several Twitter events that happen online, and you don’t even have to leave your house to participate. These events are different from a Tweet-Up, where people coordinate a live meet-up using Twitter to get together in person. Instead, a Twitter chat is where a group of people decide to virtually meet up on Twitter at a designated time period to discuss a given topic. Twitter Chat Basics Here’s the basic info you need to know about participating in a Twitter ...
#SITS31DBBB: Problogger Wrap-Up & Look Ahead
Francesca and I would like to start out by thanking everyone for spending time with us during the month of June. The Problogger Summer Challenge has been fantastic so far. More importantly, the online friendships and support from our community never cease to amaze us. Before we began, we chatted a bit about which days we thought people would get the most out of, while still running the entire program over in the The SITS Girls Forum. We did this with YOU in mind, understanding that by ...