Where to Start?

They always say start at the beginning, but who knows where to begin? 

I found myself asking that when trying to decide what to post about first. You may find yourself asking the same thing. Just start somewhere. A nice perk of blogging is the relative casualness. You don't want to be sloppy, but it's not the same as turning in a final manuscript to an editor. Cut yourself some slack and have fun.

I decided to start by going back to one of the main purposes for this blog - as an extension of my "Blogging for Writers" presentation. Here's the post I used for this year's East Texas Christian Writers' Conference.

Salutations, ETCWC Attendees!

While you're waiting for the sessions to start, take a peek around my blog.

Instead of a handout, I'll be using this post for supplemental material. I suppose since you're in a blog workshop, you're interested in utilizing the web. A couple of benefits to this method - you don't have to keep up with the paper and you can link through to the other sources.  So, here we go.

Blog History Links:

• Wikipedia's entry for blog has enough info to keep you busy for a while.
• Rebecca Blood, a blogging pioneer and author of the Weblog Handbook, did a post in 2000 titled "Weblogs: A History and Perspecitve."

Blogging tips to get your started and keep you going:

• Zoundry's Guide for Beginners
• From 2003: Q&A w/Rebecca Blood about being a better blogger.
• From 2005: Hilarious beginning blog tips from Simon World via Sree.
• Darren at ProBlogger has 31 Days to Building a Better Blog.
• He also has a series on Blogging for Beginners.
• Joe Carter's also did a series on How to Start a Blog.
• Sree's Further Reading from Figuring Out Blogs workshop.
• Technorati does it's own spin on Blogging 101.
• Blogging Basics 101 has helpful info, too.
• Chip Scanlan, at Poynter online, tells us why he blogs? 
• Finally, A List Apart gives advice on Writing for the Living Web, 2002

Blogging Author Resources

• Listed in an earlier post of mine.

Thanks for your interest in blogging. Hope these serve you well.

While you're waiting for the sessions to start, take a peek around my blog.

Instead of a handout, I'll be using this post for supplemental material. I suppose since you're in a blog workshop, you're interested in utilizing the web. A couple of benefits to this method - you don't have to keep up with the paper and you can link through to the other sources.  So, here we go.

Blog History Links:

• Wikipedia's entry for blog has enough info to keep you busy for a while.
• Rebecca Blood, a blogging pioneer and author of the Weblog Handbook, did a post in 2000 titled "Weblogs: A History and Perspecitve."

Blogging tips to get your started and keep you going:

• Zoundry's Guide for Beginners
• From 2003: Q&A w/Rebecca Blood about being a better blogger.
• From 2005: Hilarious beginning blog tips from Simon World via Sree.
• Darren at ProBlogger has 31 Days to Building a Better Blog.
• He also has a series on Blogging for Beginners.
• Joe Carter's also did a series on How to Start a Blog.
• Sree's Further Reading from Figuring Out Blogs workshop.
• Technorati does it's own spin on Blogging 101.
• Blogging Basics 101 has helpful info, too.
• Chip Scanlan, at Poynter online, tells us why he blogs? 
• Finally, A List Apart gives advice on Writing for the Living Web, 2002

Blogging Author Resources

• Listed in an earlier post of mine.

Thanks for your interest in blogging. Hope these serve you well.