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Blog Exercises: When Will You Not Link?

April 3, 2013 – 4:23 am

There are few people I hate in this world. I think I can count them on one hand, mostly on two fingers. We all have them, people who did us wrong and taught us to disrespect, dread, dislike, and even hate them. As tolerant as we wish we all were, that’s just the way of […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, editorial guidelines, ethics, guidelines, how to link, links, moral value, morals, personal standards, policies, social web, standards, tips, when to link, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (17)

Blog Exercises for March

March 29, 2013 – 4:06 am

March was a busy month in my Blog Exercises series. Wow, are we already done with the third month in this year long series? The participants explored a wide variety of blog exercises on editing, blogger identity, content organization, and web writing. There were exercises to motivate and inspire you, and help you inspire your […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blog maintenance, Blogging Tips, improving your blog, site improvements, site maintenance, summary, web writing, Writing | Leave a Comment

Blog Exercises: How Many Words in a Link?

March 28, 2013 – 4:35 am

How many words should you put into a link? Is there a rule? There isn’t a rule but there are good standards and practices. These state that two words should be the minimum, and only enough words to compel someone to click through to the linked source. The words must also imply the link’s destination […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: anchor text, blog exercises, Blogging Tips, html, html tags, link guidelines, links, readability, web standards, web writing, writers guidelines, writing for the web, writing guidelines | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: Make an Elephant Out of a Fly

March 22, 2013 – 4:22 am

G.I. Gurdjieff said, “We have made an elephant out of a fly.” A friend of mine and fellow college professor, Mark Smith, is a dedicated follower of George Gurdjieff, a Russian spiritual leader. He’s been sharing some of his teachings with me. This one caught my attention and immediately had to be added to these […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, editing, exageration, mark smith, passion, rant, ranting, web writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (1)

Blog Exercises: Preview Posts

March 20, 2013 – 4:54 am

Do you preview a post before publishing? If not, consider adding this extra step to the publishing process. Why? I’m human. So are you. We mess things up. No matter how careful you are, you will make mistakes. That’s life. By double checking what your post will look like before you release it to the […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Writing, Blogging Tips, Blogging, Blog Exercises | Tags: how to blog, blog writing, Blogging Tips, how to write, how to write blog posts, web publishing, proof, web writing, blog exercises, writing for the web, editing, edit, editing posts, preview, preview posts, checklist, publishing checklist, proofing, publishing tips, blog publishing tips | Comments (5)

Blog Exercises: How to Tag Posts

March 19, 2013 – 4:16 am

Categories are your site’s table of contents. Tags are your index words. While it is simple to explain the two basic organizational and navigation elements of a WordPress site, coming up with tags for each post is a struggle many bloggers battle. Tags represent micro-categorization of your site’s content. It helps the visitor find closely […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, categorizaton, content, content organization, content tags, how to tag posts, navigation, organization, post tags, posts, structure, tags, tags and categories, web writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (6)

Blog Exercises: Blasts from the Past

March 18, 2013 – 4:33 am

It’s time to dive into your archives and feature some blasts from the past on your blog. We all know we have some great gems in our archives, article series, great topics, informative and educational content. Many of these are timeless, yet they tend to get lost in the shuffle of time and search. We’ve […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: article series, blast from the past, blog exercises, Blogging Tips, content, intrasite links, links, old posts, past posts, revive past posts, seo, social media, web writing, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: Speed Blogging with CoLT

March 15, 2013 – 4:01 am

I’d like to introduce you to the work horse I use for speed blogging. It’s a web browser add-on for Firefox called CoLT. It stands for Copy Link Text. I will be offering a variety of web browser tips and tools to make blogging faster and easier throughout these Blog Exercises, and of all of […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, colt, firefox, firefox add-on, firefox extension, firefox tips, html, productivity, speed blogging, web browser, web browser tips, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: Check Your Site Title Tag

March 14, 2013 – 4:40 am

Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is required to have the <title> tag in the <head> of the source code HTML structure. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blog title, Blogging Tips, code, html, html title, html title tag, post title, seo, site title, tags, title tag, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (10)

Blog Exercises: Know Your Pageviews

March 13, 2013 – 4:28 am

In this Blog Exercise, it is time to learn some website jargon, specifically, what are all the web pages of your site called. I teach web publishing with WordPress and web design courses at two colleges, and I’m stunned that students don’t know at the lack of proper names for all the parts of a […]

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Blog Exercises: How Many Posts Can Your Audience Handle?

March 8, 2013 – 4:03 am

In “Blog Exercises: How Many Posts? the exercise asked you to consider how many posts you should publish within a specific time period on your site, such as by day, week, month, or year. The goal was to set self-deadlines and monitor how many posts you felt were appropriate to publish within that time period. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, community, content, feed fatigue, feedback, feeds, how many posts, poll, polls, production, publishing, publishing frequency, readers, readership, rss, survey, surveys, web publishing, web writing, writing for the web | Comments (4)

Blog Exercises: Polls and Surveys Follow-up

March 7, 2013 – 4:50 am

In Blog Exercises: Polls and Surveys I asked you to create a poll on your site asking for input from your readers. Today’s exercise is on creating a follow-up poll. In that exercise, I invited readers to respond to the question, “What publishing platform are you currently using?” The answers to that are typical, skewed […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Writing, Blogging Tips, Blogging, Blog Exercises | Tags: Blogging Tips, interactivity, web writing, blog exercises, writing for the web, polls, surveys, how to write a poll, how to write a survey, how to write surveys, questions, polls and surveys | Comments (1)

Writing for the Web Course Starts June 3, 1013

March 7, 2013 – 4:02 am

I will be teaching “Writing for the Web” at Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education in Vancouver, Washington, Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 3 – July 8, 2013. The class will be at the West Coast Bank Building in downtown Vancouver, Washington, just a few minutes from downtown Portland, Oregon. Writing on the web is now […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Announcements, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress News, Writing | Tags: Blogging Tips, clark college, classes, community building, courses, demographics, education, facebook, how to blog, how to write on the web, learn how to blog, social media, social web, training, twitter, web writing, wordpress, workshops, writing class, writing course, writing for the web, writing tips | Leave a Comment

WordPress Course at PCC-Rock Creek in Beaverton

March 6, 2013 – 5:44 am

I will be teaching a WordPress Introduction college course at Portland Community College in Beaverton, just west of Portland, Oregon, starting April 3 – June 12, 2013. The course is a hybrid online course meetings Wednesdays from 6-9PM with a minimum of two hours online per week. Called “CMS Website Creation: WordPress,” this 3 credit […]

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Blog Exercises: Where Are You?

March 6, 2013 – 4:33 am

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 relying on their local websites to point me to what I needed […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: about, about page, audience, blog exercises, blog identity, blogging, Blogging Tips, city, community, content, geo-location, geography, identification, identity, location, location blogging, readers, region, site identification, site name, tagline, town, web writing, where are you, Writing, writing for the web | Leave a Comment

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