1. Blogging Made Easy or Your Money Back May 2013 The journey awaits…

2. Blogging Made Easy or Your Money Back Why blog? Some of you smart participants, please give your thoughts.

3. Blogging Made Easy or Your Money Back Tips for blogging …know the reason you are writing. …know who is likely to read it. …define what you mean by ‘success’. This can change over time. …have a schedule. Keep it. …be persistent. …be interesting. Or funny. Or provocative. If you are bored…so are we. …let it fester before publishing. …use clever titles.

4. Blogging Made Easy or Your Money Back Clever titles (copyright pending) (most viewed posts) Don’t Look Down and Other Reasons to Wet Your Pants Blue Blazes, President Hoover, and a Skinny Dipping World Record The Joy of Food Porn Colombia in Pictures Colombia in Pictures (sometimes not so clever works too…)

5. Blogging Made Easy or Your Money Back How to stay motivated? Keep your goal in mind. Did you achieve it? Can it change? Give encouragement to others. One ounce of feedback can be motivating. Sense of accomplishment. From crafting something useful or interesting or funny. But no one reads my blog! No one leaves comments! I quit! You can’t build a pyramid with only five stones (blog posts).

6. Blogging Made Easy or Your Money Back Where do you draw the line on what to share? Remember the audience. Not everything that happens (in your life) is interesting. Your Mom isn’t the only one reading this. Will it get you in trouble? Stir up some controversy? If it is work related, does it match your corporate philosophy?

7. Blogging Made Easy or Your Money Back Blogs Field Focus: Learning from staff https://www.wvcentral.org/community/pe/fieldfocus A Random Journey http://jeremybailey.wordpress.com/