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Feb 07 2011

Chapter 2 — Advanced Blogging

Posted by rpaul2 in Assignments (Chapters), tags: , , ,

“For college journalists, blogging means learning a new content-management system, building an audience for your writing and reporting and cultivating a collaborative community once you have that audience.”

Briggs extends his discussion on blogging into the second chapter of JournalismNext. He first explains why blogs are important and then dives into how they can be used to your advantage and your advancement up the working ladder.

After Briggs decrypts some blogging language (blogroll, permalink, trackback, moblog), he explains why a blog should be appealing appearance-wise — the better, more eye-pleasing your blog looks, the longer users will want to stay on it. He also advises that once a user’s blog is created to try to see and use their blog “as a notebook, compiling [their] notes and story ideas as drafts in a blog system” and that to post “approximately once a day” is healthy.

Briggs closes with this truth: “If you can find the fire to blog, you will reap the rewards.”

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