cross-posted from The Shebeen Club
For immediate release:
What: The Shebeen Club: Blogging as Writer’s Practice
When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall Street in Gastown
Why: Learn the rewards blogging can bring to a writer’s daily practice
Who: Contact lorraine.murphy at gmail.com for more information
How(much)? $15 includes presentation and dinner
Blogging is the most powerful self-publishing tool ever invented; not only is it free and accessible, but it’s easy. Even the least technical can master it quickly. Learn the many powerful ways that blogging can reinforce and encourage your writing every day. Whether you’re working on a book, writing poetry, or working in multimedia, a blog can encourage your creative process and help you spread the word of your own genius!
This is a nontechnical introduction to blogging practices and benefits, not a how-to-blog course.
Your admission includes a dinner of fabulous bangers and mash or vegetarian pasta, plus one glass of pop, wine or beer, not to mention excellent company!
Bio: Lorraine Murphy is a Vancouver blogger, writer, and editor. She has been blogging for many years, both professionally and personally, and her flagship blog, www.raincoaster.com, is ranked in the top 18,000 blogs in the world. She also maintains The Shebeen Club Blog and running through rain, for students of her course Blogging to Personal Growth. 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.
Lorraine Murphy and Lori Dunn are the co-founders of the Shebeen Club.
7-7:30: meet and mingle
7:30-8: listen and learn
8-whenever: Blogger versus WordPress GoogleJuice Splashdown.
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That’s you??? Oh my God! I read about this on someone else’ blog via the BC Bloggers site. Wow. I would totally have attended if I were a Vancouverite. Do you have a handout or printed material from the presentation you can email me? If you’re willing, that is…?
Oui, c’est moi. I have no printed material, but if you check the Shebeen Club blog about a week afterwards, I may put up some stuff. I’m trying to keep this very NOT how-to, because you can’t teach that in a half hour and I have zero patience for all the “but how do I earn millions from Adsense” questions I’d get. When I’m charging them $100 a day those questions become a LOT easier to have patience with.
I’ve started a business to teach blogging to small groups, and I work with both the marginalized on the Downtown EastSide, and with entrepreneurs. They’re very different groups, but they can both benefit from blogging. I’d comp you to one of the classes if you were local, so just let me know next time you’ll be around!