Friday, July 31, 2009

Advice on Starting a Blog


Advice On Starting a Blog

  • The best thing is, not to think too much.
  • Remember, it’s a blog, not a text book.
  • What you write is important, but it can be human, with all of the failings we have.
  • The first thing, is to write something.
  • The second is to find a fun picture. (option but catchy to the eye)
  • Most people won’t keep reading if the beginning is boring.
  • Keep it short – unless you really have something to say.
  • Use bold face when you change topic. Like a heading.
  • The most important thing though, is have fun.
  • Welcome to BLOG WORLD.

2 comments:

Brian said...

Okay, maybe this isn't the most positive or uplifting message, smelling of "critical thinking" (aka CT, don't we know), but here's my first Advice to Consider blog comment:

My advice is to send this "advice on starting a blog" post to coberst. This will accomplish the following purposes:

1)Relieving dozens of discussion boards of his quasi-spam posts.

2)Allow him a central place to gather & organize all his ideas, materials & creativity.

3)Allow others to respond to his ideas & actively participate with him in a forum of their/his own choosing.

4)Give he himself the time & opportunity to actually respond in turn to the efforts others put into expressing their ideas (at present he seldom does, as is well known). As a corollary, he may even learn something new about Critical Thinking from a more mutually respectful discussion with other posters.

5)Probably give him more time to engage in other hobbies & relax his mind, calm his soul.

There may be other benefits but these are the ones that come to mind. In addition, I cannot think of any disadvantages.

One major hurdle would be contacting him to begin with. Sorry I can't help with that.

I do hope these comments are appropriate. I do not really mean to offend. They are, if nothing else, heartfelt, & with the ultimate destination of helping coberst & many others all at once.

Tiffany said...

That's very Brainy Brian!
Coberst is a forum virus, its true.
If there was someone who needed a blog - its Coberst, and you offend not me.
Thanks for your comment. :D