SUGGESTIONS FOR LEARNING HOW TO BLOG

“Learning to Blog for Business”
By Jan Norman at The Orange County Register Feb13-06
(I have formatted her advice into a list. I changed some of the web site addresses to what is currently working.)

Blogging is easy. (This will be the most frequent piece of advice you will get on the Net.)

Blogger.com says that “A blog is a Web site where you write stuff on an on-going basis. The fastest way to understand blogging is to try it out.”

Free how-to advice:
http://weblogs.about.com
http://home.blogware.com/faqs.html
http://www.blogger.com
gives you a chance to try blogging for free

To set up a custom blog for a fee:
http://www.typepad.com

Blog directories to help you find current blogs similar to what you want to do
(You can learn a lot by viewing other blogs.)
http://www.trueblogging.com
http://www.blogwise.com
(Google also lists blogs)

Guide books
“The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog”
(Perseus Books $14)
“Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog” (Alpha $24.95)
“Blogging for Dummies” (For Dummies $21.99)
(You can research viewers’ ratings for these books at Amazon.com.)

The author advises that if you do this for business that you should be careful not to blog foolishly while learning because it will be on the Internet forever.
(She didn’t expand on this statement.)