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By: John Haydon

John Haydon — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:24:35 +0000

You got that right. In fact blogging used to be called “journalling”

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Bloomtools1 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:36:08 +0000

Nice list of Pros of blogging. Blog’s typically were just an easier way to have a diary and weren’t intended to make you popular or give you social status through the internet.

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By: John Haydon

John Haydon — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:09:52 +0000

Sounds like you've got some great strategies for dealing with blogging
teams. One service I offer my clients is custom video tutorials on using the
blogging software. These videos are of the clients actual blog and
demonstrates, step-by-step, how to publish posts, add tags, choose
categories, etc. The orgs are able to shorten the learning curve for new
bloggers and save valuable staff time teaching one-on-one.

By: Chanelle Carver

Chanelle Carver — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:05:54 +0000

It depends on the skill of the writer. If they read blogs but have never written for one then we do copy/paste. With the help of a Volunteer Editor we developed a blogging manual for new recruits and also held a phone conference to go over it in more detail and answer questions. Once they're comfortable with everything – our unique style/format, the “right and wrong way to blog”, etc. – we invite them to be a contributor on our blog (we used Blogger so they needed to have a Gmail address or create one).

The only thing with this is that they must have some knowledge of blogger or willing to quickly learn how to edit in HTML and all that. For some of our writers that was just too much. All they wanted to do was write the content and let us do the rest which was totally fine by us. On the other hand, you could have them write the content but NOT publish. All the editor has to do is edit and publish.

I'd recommend recruiting an experienced blogger to volunteer as the editor. Makes your life and the experience of your volunteer writers much easier. And if you can find someone with knowledge of SEO even better!

By: John Haydon

John Haydon — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:28:18 +0000

Chanelle – thanks! Do you set up accounts for each blogger? Or do you
copy/paste content into the blog?

By: Katlin Smith

Katlin Smith — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:44:48 +0000

Chanelle Carver's comment about setting up a blog calendar is spot on. Even though I am a solo blogger (on travel and recreation in SW Washington State), I could use a calendar like that to track the status of my research, photos, drafts and contacts with my post sources. Thank you!

By: Chanelle Carver

Chanelle Carver — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:31:28 +0000

“8. Implement a blog calendar – having one makes creating content seem
less daunting” >> I run a startup social initiative and when we began recruiting volunteers to blog for us building a blog calendar was the one of the first things I did. There's just no way to keep track of everything without knowing who is supposed to post on any given day. Having a blog calendar not only helps you keep track of when someone is posting but, if the blogger is required to send drafts, the calendar will help them keep track of their own time. We had writers submit drafts at least two days before their scheduled post date so our Editor could look it over and make any simple corrections or send it back for the writer to revise. To make a long story short, creating a blog calendar is one of, if not THE best way to build it into your workflow.

Great post, John!