Writing Awesome Blog Posts
January 28th, 2010
Tonight on Twitter, I saw a tweet from Milton Ramirez that pointed me to this presentation by Arun Basil Lal. Arun has some great tips here on writing good blog posts. The most useful information specifically about writing starts on slide 11.
It’s worth reading. Soon.
How To Write An Awesome Blog Post
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Blog Checklist :: January 2010
January 26th, 2010
Blogging is like gardening. Though it may be easy to start a blog, you must nurture (“feed” and “water”) it often for it to flourish. (Many thanks to Michael Willits for help with the analogy!)
If you are in one of my public relations classes this semester, please complete the appropriate checklist to see if your [...]
T.O.W. :: [PRCA 3030] Topics of the Week
January 15th, 2010
In PRCA 3030 (Social Media for PR), we’ll all blog about the same general topic each week during the semester. Your TOWs should be posted by Saturday at noon at the end of each week.
Some weeks have more than one topic listed; choose one of the available topics on those weeks.
If you have a topic [...]
10 Blogging Tips That Will Change Your Life (or Grade, at least)
December 9th, 2009
[Slightly updated on 28 January 2010 from the original post date of 9 December 2009]
Over the past few semesters, I had nearly 250 of my students blogging as part of their grades in public relations courses. And this semester, I have more than 100 more. Based on their experiences and mine, here are some tips [...]
Guidelines for Student Blogging
May 18th, 2009
Toward the end of 2008, Jeffrey Keefer and I used Google Docs to collaborate on guidelines for students to follow when writing in their blogs. What follows is the result of our collaboration, along with some of my personal spin added in. Though I wanted to create these guidelines as a guide for my students [...]


