OUR NEXT CLASS RUNS
Saturday, May 17th
Current course:
Blog Basics Workshop
OUR NEXT CLASS RUNS Saturday, May 17th
What: a hands-on learn to blog workshop
When: 10-2 Saturday, May 17th
Where: Tradeworks Training Society, Downtown Vancouver
Why: Get a blog up and running in one day with personal instruction in small classes. This workshop covers blog basics like:
- what a blog can and can’t do for you
- how to post podcasts, video, audio, images, and text in your blog
- basic copyright law and accepted practices
- solving basic technical problems, where to find help
- privacy and the internet
Who: raincoaster media ltd, in partnership with Tradeworks Training Society.
Contact bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com or 778-235-0592.
How(much)? $125 tuition, or $100 in combination with any other half-day class. Please pre-register to ensure your reservation.
With class size limited to 8, this will be a program of personalized, hands-on learning. During the class you will create your own blog, tweak the design, publish your first few posts, add a YouTube video, and even some music. You will leave with a functional, personalized blog and the skills you need to run it.
Upcoming Courses: Corporate and Nonprofit Blogging, Pimp My Blog (blog promotion), Blogging for Business, and Photoblogging (online and in Montreal, courtesy Neath of Walking Turcot Yards). Please email bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com to be put on the notification list.
Bio: Lorraine Murphy has been blogging for many years, and her flagship blog, raincoaster, is ranked in the top 20,000 blogs in the world. She maintains The Shebeen Club Blog for the literary group of the same name, running through rain for students of her course Blogging to Personal Growth, and Blogger’s Blurt, a resource for beginning WordPress bloggers. She mommyblogs at TeenyManolo and celebrityblogs at Ayyyy!. Ms Murphy is the author of Terminal City: Vancouver’s Missing Women and a former Small Business Columnist at Business in Vancouver newspaper and Occupational Pursuit magazine. As one of the cornerstone volunteers in the WordPress.com technical help forums, she has long experience helping beginning bloggers develop fluency and achievement online.
Contact for more details: bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com
Coming Up:
Blogging for Business
• What: a hands-on, blog building workshop including advice on how your organization can get the most impact from social media and blogs.
• When: Wednesday, May 28th, 9am-4pm
• Where: Tradeworks Training Society, Downtown Vancouver
• Why: Learn to use a blog to raise your professional profile, spread your company’s message, and connect with clients and the media. Get a blog up and running in one day with personal instruction in a small, intensive workshop.
With class size limited to 6, this will be a program of personalized, intense learning. During the workshop you will create a blog, customize the design, and publish several draft posts including various multimedia formats such as video. You will leave with a functional, professional blog and the skills you need to run and promote it.
This workshop also covers important business blogging issues like:
> what blogging and social media can and can’t do for your organization
> blogs as sales tools
> posting rich media like podcasts, video, and images
> accepting paid advertising: pluses and minuses
> basic copyright law and accepted practices
> solving basic technical problems, where to find help
> privacy, confidentiality, and the internet
> balancing accessibility and professionalism online
> SEO, publicity, and building your media presence
Tuition is $250 per participant. Please pre-register via email at least seven days before the class. No late registrations will be accepted. Computers are provided; you may bring a laptop if you prefer. Presented by raincoaster media ltd, in partnership with Tradeworks Training Society.
Contact or 778-235-0592, bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com .
Upcoming Courses: Corporate and Nonprofit Blogging, Pimp My Blog (blog
promotion), Blogging for Business, Audio Podcasting, and Photoblogging (online and in
Montreal, courtesy Neath of Walking Turcot Yards). Please email bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com to be put on the notification list.
Blogging for Nonprofit Organizations
• What: a hands-on, blog building workshop including advice on how your organization can get the most impact from social media and blogs.
• When: to be announced
• Where: Tradeworks Training Society, Downtown Vancouver
• Why: Learn to use social media and blogs to complement your organization’s mission. Get a blog up and running in one day with personal instruction in a small, intensive workshop.
This workshop covers blogging issues like:
> what social media can and can’t do for your organization
> posting rich media like podcasts, video, and images
> basic copyright law and accepted practices
> solving basic technical problems, where to find help
> privacy, confidentiality, and the internet
> balancing accessibility and professionalism online
> SEO, publicity, and building your media presence
Tuition is $200 per participant. Please pre-register via email at least seven days before the class. No late registrations will be accepted. Computers are provided; you may bring a laptop if you prefer. Presented by raincoaster media ltd, in partnership with Tradeworks Training Society.
Contact or 778-235-0592, bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com .
With class size limited to 6, this will be a program of personalized, intense learning. During the workshop you will create a blog, customize the design, and publish several draft posts including various multimedia formats such as video. You will leave with a functional, professional blog and the skills you need to run and promote it.
Why blog? Check out the creative, effective ways that other nonprofits are using blogs to distribute their message independent of the mainstream media:
> 10 reasons every nonprofit must have a blog
> 10 ways nonprofits can use blogs
> blogging basics for nonprofits
> net2learn blogging for nonprofits
Upcoming Courses: Corporate and Nonprofit Blogging, Pimp My Blog (blog
promotion), Blogging for Business, Audio Podcasting, and Photoblogging (online and in
Montreal, courtesy Neath of Walking Turcot Yards). Please email bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com to be put on the notification list.
Pimp My Blog
Pimp My Blog: Promotion Tips
What: Blog Promotion Tips for Beginners
When: to be announced
Where: Tradeworks Training Society, Chinatown
Why: Now that you’ve got a blog, why toil in obscurity? This course will teach you effective blog promotion techniques to reliably increase your readership. Each course is limited to 8 students, and covers blog basics like:
· what a blog can and can’t do for you, famewise, and how to get there
· professional vs personal profiles, privacy and promotion
· community netiquette and joining the blogosphere at large
· what the world wants to hear vs what you have to say
Who: raincoaster media ltd, in partnership with Tradeworks Training Society.
How(much)? $125 tuition prepaid only, or $100 if registered along with any other half-day social media course.
To register: email bloggingclasses at gmail.com and reserve your space via the secure Paypal link at the top right-hand corner of http://raincoaster.com or http://runningthroughrain.wordpress.com .
Reservation guaranteed only upon acceptance of payment.
Upcoming Courses: Corporate Blogging, Blogging for Nonprofit Organizations, Blogging for Entrepreneurs, and Photoblogging (online and in Montreal, courtesy Neath of Walking Turcot Yards). Please email to be put on the notification list for dates.
Bio: Lorraine Murphy has been blogging for many years, and her flagship blog, raincoaster, is ranked in the top 20,000 blogs in the world. She maintains The Shebeen Club Blog for the literary group of the same name, running through rain for students of her course Blogging to Personal Growth, and Blogger’s Blurt, a resource for beginning WordPress bloggers. She mommyblogs at TeenyManolo and celebrityblogs at Ayyyy!. Ms Murphy is the author of Terminal City: Vancouver’s Missing Women and a former Small Business Columnist at Business in Vancouver newspaper and Occupational Pursuit magazine. As one of the cornerstone volunteers in the WordPress.com technical help forums, she has long experience helping beginning bloggers develop fluency and achievement online.
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6 Comments
BC is too far and i need this info by next week!
i teach writing at a community college; my classes which start monday will be doing a number of different blogs…i have been blogging since nov and saw immediately applications but have been teaching it to myself and am anxious about teaching my students!
any direction you might have or leads of where to look (on this or your other blogs or elsewhere) would be awesome. i’ve stumbled across some.
btw, do i have to post http://artpredator.wordpress.com for the link to be there in a comment? shouldn’t people be able to click on my name or image and connect to my blog?
holy moly, what am i getting into!!
thanks!
the art predator (who is friends with the blogger the accidental novelist, danika dinsmore, poet, novelist, etc who also lives in vancouver BC)
Well, I do do some consulting… we could email or IM some lessons if you want. My email is raincoaster at gmail dot com.
Try:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ the Help forum
http://bloggersblurt.wordpress.com
http://wpbloggingtips.wordpress.com
http://lorelle.wordpress.com
Those are in ascending order of complexity. I always recommend beginners start with WordPress.com, because it’s more robust and secure than Blogger/Blogspot, and it completely takes the whole advertising/get rich quick thing off the table immediately, forcing people to concentrate on blogging.
To get your name to be a link to your blog, you have to set it on your Profile Page; list your blog under “Website” and hit Update and then it will link.
ah ha
hadn’t realized at that time that a blog is a website but of course yes
thanks mucho for the info links; let’s see if it works!
can i link them on my soon to be blog for my students? (i linked this blog already)
and yes i plan on us all getting wordpress blogs as that’s the only one i’m familiar with and i’m finding it makes sense.
it’s going to be a little nuts–30 college kids and me trying to build all these blogs! i will keep you posted…
Sure, pass the links around! Good luck!
wealth of info in these links; my brain is blogboggled!
i found your travel photography site and love the theme–stardust? is it WordPress? or? do you know a theme where the image fades into the text?
thanks!
My travel photography site? I haven’t got one. What’s the link?
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