Your blog for TECH 621

I was just about to write a post about how to plan and write a successful blog for class, when I realized… it’s already in the syllabus!
I’m pasting below the relevant part from the syllabus, in an attempt to direct your attention to it.
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What does blogging teach?

I’ll be honest with you, I used to think that making students blog for a grade is a bad idea. I mean, making them put themselves out there?!
But then I realized that blogging is a necessity – and there’s no other way to learn it. Just like I teach news releases, I have to teach [...]

Blog post ideas

Here are a few ideas for things you could blog about, in no particular order:

blog about blogging – how is it going for you? What’s easy, what’s hard? What have you learned, what do you still wish to learn?
blog about a blog or blog post that you find good/useful/interesting – or the opposite. Explain your [...]

Engaging the Blogosphere

These links complement the lecture on Engaging the Blogosphere:

Dell Hell blog post by Jeff Jarvis
Direct2Dell, Dell’s online “home” – please take a look at their different blogs and social media efforts, including several twitter accounts
A list of the people on the Dell social media team. I’ve met Richard and Lionel at conferences, great people. Check [...]

The PR blogosphere: RRW (Read, Respond, Write)

Anybody who’s somebody and/or would like to be somebody or just IS in PR blogs. There are lots of PR blogs out there. How do you find them and choose what to READ?
Here are some starting points:

This post lists the finalists in the PR Week blog competition. These are some of the most poular & [...]

Creating a new blog post

The final tutorial for today allows you to witness the steps I go through as I create a new blog post. In this tutorial I talk you through each step as I actually do it, so you can see exactly what I click, how I insert links, and how easy it is to create blog [...]