Wednesday, March 6, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: Where Are You?

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "After agreeing to take on a writing assignment regarding Oregon history, I happily settled down to do a little preliminary online research. Because some of the towns I needed to research were located in areas I was not completely familiar with, I was rely"

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

[New post] Go to the 10th Anniversary of SOBCon in Chicago

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "I want to live in a world where my word and expertise initiates action in others. I want to say a few words and watch people jump. I promise to use this power rarely, but if I do, I would like you to act now. If I had such a power, I would say the foll"

[New post] Introduction to WordPress Class at Clark College Continuing Education

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "I will be teaching another Introduction to WordPress course at Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education in Vancouver, Washington, starting Saturdays, April 27 through July 13, 2013. The class will be at the Columbia Tech Center in eastern Vancouve"

[New post] Blog Exercises: Trackback Check-Up

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "It's time to check your trackbacks. In Blog Exercises: Trackbacks and Blog Exercises: Backlinks you learned about trackbacks, the automatic process of a site linking to yours and generating a comment-like notification to alert you of the link to your a"

Monday, March 4, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: What is Your Posting Response Assessment?

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "A few years ago, the US Air Force created the Air Force Web Posting Response Assessment (PDF), a flow chart that takes their Public Affairs Agency and other agencies involved in web publishing and social media through a step-by-step evaluation of how to r"

Sunday, March 3, 2013

[New post] The Future of Blogging – With a Glimpse Backwards

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "In "What's next for blogging: I try to predict the future" by Yesterday's news, the author, a Creative and Professional Writing Major at Bemidji State University in Minnestoa, used fantastic visuals to take us on a journey through the development of blogg"

Friday, March 1, 2013

[New post] Blog Exercises: Bottom Up Editing

Lorelle VanFossen posted: "What if you blogged from the bottom up? In this Blog Exercise I'd like you to take a look at the article you are working on, preparing to publish it on your site, and take the last paragraph and put it at the top. We are often locked into our basic"