Get Blog Training

Blog planning—Step 5 of 7

A blog is about developing a relationship with your readers.  A good training class can teach you about both the personal and the technical sides of blogging. 

Blog management training can help you:

• Develop structure for your blog
• Select stories and themes
• Develop a clear, concise and conversational writing style
• Draw out and manage comments
• Write at a level, and in a tone, appropriate to your primary audience

Technical training can teach you how to:

• Use your blog software to create and post content
• Create a dynamic header for your blog title, logo and tag line
• Create a dynamic footer for copyright and privacy information and site terms of use
• Develop a system to manage, organize and archive posts
• Use widgets and gadgets effectively
• Incorporate RSS feeds to automatically deliver content to readers

These online training sessions can help you get started

• Best Practices for Blogging, archived DGU New Media Talk, May 2009
• Guide for Blogging at EPA (PDF, 6 pages, August 2008)

After you’ve gotten training, you need to identify criteria for success.

Review all steps at a glance on the How to Blog page.

Content Lead: Lisa Nelson
Page Reviewed/Updated: August 6, 2012