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By: Blog Struggles: The Search for Blog Content « Lorelle on WordPress

Blog Struggles: The Search for Blog Content « Lorelle on WordPress — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:05:50 +0000

[…] Converting a Newsletter Into a Blog was inspired from a project I did with a business women’s association to convert their printed and emailed newsletter into a blog. When I took on the contract, I thought it would be as simple as following the newsletter format, turning columns into categories, and transferring content. It was a nightmare as the group took “print think” and had trouble converting it to “web think”, even to the point of titling all their blog posts for that month by the month and year – no text to tell which post contained what information. On print, this worked as the eye would scan down to the content, letting them know what the article contained. On the web, May 2007 looks like May 2007 and just May 2007, without any explanation until you actually open that post. Many were helped by the lessons I learned working with this group through this article series. […]

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Two Months of Blogging and WordPress Tips « Lorelle on WordPress — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:58:22 +0000

[…] Converting a Newsletter Into a Blog is an article series I did for the Blog Herald on helping a small business women’s membership group make the switch from a newsletter mailed and emailed to members to producing the same content on a blog, saving printing and postage and moving into the digital age. […]

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By: Katja

Katja — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:33:44 +0000

Thanks so much for checking. No, I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, just thought the series was a great reference and wanted to recommend it to others.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:06:47 +0000

Well, it seems that the Blog Herald is having some design problems. Hopefully, it will be resolved soon. I don’t work for them any more, so I’ve no control over their site nor design. Thanks for letting me know and I hope you let them know as well.

If there was something specific you wish to know about converting a newsletter to a blog, let me know and I’ll help as best I can.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:13:32 +0000

Of course it wouldn’t be intensional. I’ll check them. Was there a specific link that’s broken? Thanks for letting me know.

By: Katja

Katja — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:10:34 +0000

When this series was originally published, I thought it had great potential for helping techies understand how to talk to non-techies about converting their traditional print collateral to the web. Now, I find that except for the first entry in the series, links to the other entries lead to pages that are blank except for the Blog Herald header. Is that intentional?

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User First Web » links for 2007-10-21 — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:22:50 +0000

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WordCamp Israel » Blog Archive » Lorelle on blogging and Israel — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:37:17 +0000

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:37:30 +0000

Volume 1, 2, etc, what? I used no Plugin on the Blog Herald. That's created manually, however, I've written about Connecting Articles in Series: In Series WordPress Plugin and Technical Tips for Publishing a Series of Articles on Your Blog to explain how this is done. I would not label or title your newsletters-to-blog posts, or categorize them, by volume. You are turning your newsletter into a blog, which means every article in the newsletter, and column, now becomes a blog post. Totally different thinking. You change from publishing a newsletter to publishing an online magazine. If you want to keep doing your newsletter, than do, and add a blog to complement it. But if you want to stop the newsletter to go totally blog, the article series will help.