Category Archives: Blogging

blog post o’ the day: strangeness

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What a surprising topic for our inaugural Blog Post O’ The Day! Indeed, strangeness is no stranger to the ol’ raincoaster blog which I will not link up because Technorati no longer adds status per link but rather per linking blog, so perhaps I should retain my blogging rate but do each single post in a new blog, given that the time to register a new blog is perhaps 2.5 minutes but where was I?

Oh yes. On painkillers.

No doubt the readers at Valleywag are all, like, WTF and many other TLAs besides.

Where was I? Oh yes. On painkillers.

For a blogging injury, of all things.

Imagine.

Where was I?

Oh yes, about to announce the blog post of the day, the person who said, straight or wasted, what I wish I’d said at some point and, no doubt, will do, having conveniently forgotten that I’d stolen it already.

Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.

Subwayphilosophy:

The smug like to credit free will; the tragic blame the fates. There is a notable pattern throughout the history of writers, philosophers, and drunks. Reader: I happen to be all three.

I don’t care to choose between free will or fate. If I must dole this out to you, I choose chance…

 Waiting for Godot

TWO DAYS????

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Humorous Pictures

OOgatz!

Anybody got an Aspirin?

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Or a bullet? Seriously, just shoot me.

absolute hangover

What a wuss I have become: two Negronis (TWO! TWO! Thanks to this diet I’ve become a total alcopussy; how undignified!) at the Sutton Place with Hermione and I’m as good as dead today. Believe me, doing the rounds of blogs and forums going “what in HELL did I post last night” is not the very best way to start the day. At least it appears from the evidence that I attempted to do some paid blogging last night, realized I was too far gone, and crashed, leaving it as a draft to pick up the next day. God knows I don’t mind making an ass of myself around these parts, but I hate doing it on someone else’s blog.

Posting will resume once the greasy junk food has taken effect.

cya

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Bad, bad clone
I’ll see you all after WordPress has fixed this latest “upgrade” which has prevented people from posting for three days. I suppose I won’t hold my breath to see when they fix the error that keep substituting Div tags for P tags when you start a post with a centered image…but what the hell, while I’m praying I’ll just throw that in there.
Good thing I have a couple of uncracked paperbacks lying around waiting for me. Life is very boring without blogging.
(controlA controlC, cross fingers, hit Publish)

Blogging for Nonprofits Course March 26th

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social media

OUR NEXT CLASS RUNS
Wednesday, March 26th

Current course: Blogging for Nonprofits

 

• What: a hands-on, blog building workshop including advice on how your organization can get the most impact from social media and blogs.

• When: 9 – 4 Wednesday, March 26th

• 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 prior to Friday, March 21st. 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

> the nonprofit blog exchange

> net2learn blogging for nonprofits

> how nonprofits can use social media

> should your nonprofit have a blog?

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.

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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