Blogging for Beginners: four hours, start from scratch and learn to post text, video, audio, and images. Basic copyright and blog etiquette, intro to sidebar widgets, categories, custom headers and design, and what on Earth to put IN the blog. Also where to find technical help.
This one is running August 2nd, ie this Saturday, 10-2, $150 pre-registered, and only eight four three spaces left. I’ll be running it again on the 23rd.
To register, please pre-pay via the Paypal button in the top right-hand corner of the blog. Paypal will give you a receipt and I will email you one as well. If you are registering for the August 2nd course, please email bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com in advance to make sure the class is not sold out.
Pimp My Blog is practical tips and tools for increasing your readership and influence, and applies to any blogging platform (with the exception of Tumblr, which is really only good for talking to the voices inside your head in my opinion). It includes a very basic intro to social media like Facebook and Myspace for promotion. I’ll be teaching this one on Saturday, August 9th. This is a $150 course, also from 10-2. There are only eight places in each session.
Last: Vacation Blogging (I should have done this in June!). Covers what to do with all those photos and all those memories to keep them fresh forever. It’s basically Blogging for Beginners, with added talk about mobile posting and internet cafes and photoblogging issues. FYI it’s also $150, and runs Saturday, August 16th. Six spaces, because this is going to be more personal.
raincoaster 
Is lesson one “how to remove someone un-ceremoniously from your blogroll”? Me-ow.
Yes.
I’m sorry, I will be nice from now on….
Rain: Mon Dieu! That’s some quality English Canadian repressed anger, right there. Ta besoin d’un p’tit coup, I think. What ever happened to letting bygones be bygones?
You know the line, “forgive me, o great Cthulhu, for I have sinned.” Now get your tentacle off my face, dude…
I guess, like elephants, cephalopods never forget. ;)
If you delay a meeting three times over five hours and then stand the person up anyway, you must expect fallout. And that’s the snarkiest apology I’ve ever seen.
Cephalopods never forget, but they DO notice when they’ve been dropped from a blogroll a lot faster than you: I dropped you the next day.
I noticed quite a while ago, was just repressing. ;) Seriously, though, my apologies. I meant no offense, didn’t plan on the night I had, and was disappointed to not make your tentacled acquaintance. Just a few crossed wires…
Good luck with the classes. Where do you hold them?
Thanks. I hold them down the street from me at a place which trains people so they can get off welfare. It’s called Tradeworks, and it’s a great organization.
Necro, now THAT is an apology. You are forgiven.
I think it’s good that you offer these classes.
I will recommend them to my peeps.
Bruce Gelerter