How To Write For Blogs
May 20, 2010 at 11:48 am
I’ve made it to WordPress TV – wow!! Featuring *newly coined* words that came straight out of my head on the day, such as:
- “Easily cognicized”
- Blobby bullets
- Scannability arsenal
Note that this was a totally adlib affair. I had spent ages on preparing a lovely Flash show, but the projector wasn’t working, so this was a flipchart and marker affair out of my head! Watch the vid.
View the slides:
Tags: how to write for blogs, wordcamp ireland, Wordcamp Ireland Kilkenny 2010
Wordcamp Review
March 8, 2010 at 6:54 pm
I was there for Saturday’s Wordcamp and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Big congrats to Sabrina and Katherine who made it happen – I believe they may be persuaded to do it all again next year. Despite being in charge, the lovely ladies did not come over all Nazi like and bossy, dinging bells to mark end of time, etc. And yet, every talk I went to started and ended on time. This proved to me that Wordcamp was about sharing and learning and not egos. I like that.
Langtons was a lovely venue, although the greenhouse that I was giving my presentation in got hit with adverse weather… who would have expected such sun in March? A lot of light made the screen rather difficult to see. This meant that my *lovely* presentation that I spent hours of Friday on, didn’t get to be shown. Resorting to marker, memory and flipchat, I gave my talk on ‘how to write for blogs’. Lucky I knew the material because I was doing it from memory.
If you weren’t there, but you’d like get a condensed version, Jon Jacob accosted me with a video camera immediately after I’d given my talk. Here’s the 4 minute version on how to write for blogs! [Must remember to top up my lipstick next time I get a video camera on me!]
Check out Jon’s other post about building online communities - he really does write rather well. Needs no tips from me. Is a natural.
PS – here are the slides transferred from Flash to retro PPT.
