1. Blogging By Yun Taiho

2. Your Favorite Blog and Why

3. What is Blogging Blogging is an online expression of one’s idea (Just like newspaper or book in a hard copy World) Text blogging Photo blogging Video blogging Podcasting (Audio blogging)

4. Text Blogging Step 1 : To Focus Step 2 : Start Posting Step 3 : Comment and Link

5. Step 1: To Focus Niche blog (choose a special topic to blog) vs Wide Blog Behind the scenes -- process of covering, reasons of covering, introduce people you are covering, your feeling Running Story Blog – diary format on some challenge. Preparing for a marathon, making a special journey

6. Step 2 : Start Posting Respond to something elsewhere (things that you feel interesting or disagree with) Suggest an idea – invite reaction and suggestion Interview someone (email interview, audio or video) if asking for advice, specifically ask for their “3 tips on….” or “5 things about” You may turn this into a series of interviews with the same theme

7. Step 2 : Start Posting Blog an event – a conference, meeting, public talk, demonstration Ask a question – turn to a forum and do a poll Pick a fight – attempt to generate traffic and change some old practice Reflect on something – Why did it happen? What are the implications?

8. Do something visual : take photographs and/or video footage. Explain them, ask questions, include relevant link Review something : content curation and giving your own opinions. Make a List : “5 ways to…” “the 100 best of…” Write a how-to most popular type of search query is “how do I” or “Why do” Guest Post Step 2 : Start Posting

9. Step 3 : Comment and Link Comment on others blog to make people aware of your blog Not to take comment too personally Linking whenever you mention an article, blog post, website and report Be clear about attribution and source material Be careful about cut and paste – copyright and wrong citation Libel Alert – Use as much as original material and state clear of the source

10. Other developements Twitter or weibo for news publishing, distribution and creation Smart phone Apps