Thursday, November 29, 2012

How to Blog?

I am a blogger but only a beginner. Despite my inexperience, I learn a lot these days from my teacher Ruth about how to blog! Below are what I have learned during the last several weeks:

Blog. Blogging seems to be easy, but not at all! To be a good blogger, you need to learn a lot of things. (Photo from Intetrnet)
1. To be a good blogger, what you need to do first is to choose a topic! To decide what you are going to write about, to create a theme that you like and to choose your own voice! Like me, I am quite shy and want to be brave, so I build this blog to cultivate my courage and to express my own opinion.

Choose a topic. This is an essential step of blogging! (Photo from Internet)

2. After deciding your theme, you need to build your blog. Building a blog is not as easy as it seems like. You have to choose an appropriate guiding metaphor and write down something about you. To make your blog more interesting, you need to use your five senses! A very powerful skill! Your blog is another home of you!

3. Now, all prepare things have been done and it is time to blog! There are many tips about how to blog and how to . I find some great articles on Internet and I want to share it with you.

How to Write a Blog People Want to Read
5 Tips to Write Blog Posts
How to Blog: Blogging Tips for Beginners

I want to emphasis some important skills that I learned from Ruth:

a. Using your five senses and make abstract things concrete!
b. Post frequently.
c. Use photos to make your blog more readable and vivid.
d. Give credit to what you use and link back!
e. Be yourself and keep your own and unique voice!
f. Ask a question at the end of your blog and invite other people to leave comments.

4. Above all are not enough and in order to have more viewers, you need to go to others' blog and leave lovely comments. In this way, people will know you and come to your blog.

Okay, that's all I can think about now. Have you learned something from this article? Do you have some suggestions? Tell me! :)








6 comments:

  1. Dear Summer! I am smiling as I read your "how-to" blog entry on blogging! You are such a good blogging student! I enjoyed reading what you have learned and am so happy that you are teaching others how to blog!

    I have one question: Related to your mission of being more courageous, how does one blog courageously? How does a shy person become one who speaks out to an internet audience?

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    1. I am wondering too. By saying what she does not dare to say during the day? By reflecting on her performance during the day? By self-motivation? ...

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  2. Congratulations on a great post! Then again, I am not surprised that one of Ruth's students would be such a star!
    SQUEEE! So excited you've signed up for #reverb12!
    See you tomoz.
    Kat x

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    1. Thank you!

      I am trying to insist on reflecting and I believe the #reverb12 will be very helpful!

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  3. PS Love your blog name and banner! Very unique and whimsical. :-)

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  4. Hurray Summer! You have just connected with a super creative blogger from Melbourne, Australia!

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