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