OUR NEXT CLASS RUNS
Saturday, May 3rd
Current course:
Pimp My Blog: Promotion Tips
What: Blog Promotion Tips for Beginners
When: 10:00am-2:00 pm, Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Where: Tradeworks Training Society, Chinatown
Why: Now that you’ve got a blog, why toil in obscurity? This course will teach you effective blog promotion techniques to reliably increase your readership. Each course is limited to 8 students, and covers blog basics like:
· what a blog can and can’t do for you, famewise, and how to get there
· professional vs personal profiles, privacy and promotion
· community netiquette and joining the blogosphere at large
· what the world wants to hear vs what you have to say
Who: raincoaster media ltd, in partnership with Tradeworks Training Society.
How(much)? $125 tuition prepaid only, or $100 if registered along with any other half-day social media course.
To register: email bloggingclasses at gmail.com and reserve your space via the secure Paypal link at the top right-hand corner of http://raincoaster.com or https://runningthroughrain.wordpress.com .
Reservation guaranteed only upon acceptance of payment.
Upcoming Courses: Corporate Blogging, Blogging for Nonprofit Organizations, Blogging for Entrepreneurs, and Photoblogging (online and in Montreal, courtesy Neath of Walking Turcot Yards). Please email to be put on the notification list for dates.
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digirati99
May 24, 2008
Love your blog – that’s my only comment..now a question – how the heck do you add widgets, other than those prently available on wordpress to a wordpress blog? For example, I would like to add twitter updates, or information from mybloglog.
raincoaster
May 24, 2008
You put your twitter feed into an RSS widget. Everything else, you put into a text widget. There are posts in the FAQ on how to use those.