Blogging in Retirement class handout

Blogging in Retirement (http://blogginginretirement.blogspot.com/)

#1 piece of advice: TRY STUFF! Be a little cautious if you like. Stay reasonably alert. But Try! TRY! TRY! [Have backup copies if possible. You’ll still live if you lose something wonderful.]

#2 piece of advice: web pages are very changeable, more so than they look

#3 bit: blogs depend on cooperation of many kinds

Many purposes for trying blogging, many possible uses for a blog

Spouting off

Rambling on about various subjects

Rambling on about a particular subject

Blogs can also be about selling, photography, videography, sounds, they don’t have to be mostly writing

Blogs I run:

Fear, fun and filoz, PointReads, OlderPointBrains, BloggingInRetirement, my college class blog

Blogs I follow: see my main blog (http://fearfunandfiloz.blogspot.com/) and bottom of page of Blogging in Retirement

Starting a blog

Squash a name or insert numbers or letters to get a name that is unique

800 million blogs: how will yours get noticed? Does it need to be? Emailing

Monetization