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Tumblr Reconsidered
Tumblr is unquestionably the easiest-to-use blogging platform, but it is as limited as it is easy: comments, widgets, and other basic blogging features cannot be added without editing the blog code, which essentially nullifies the easy-to-useness. Consequently, I couldn’t think of a use for Tumblr except as a very basic introduction to blogging for people […]
Twitter Tools: announcing our newest class
February 24, 2009
Twitter Tools is a hands-on seminar designed for beginning and intermediate Twitter users who want to learn improved ways to manage their accounts. Who: Raul Pacheco (@hummingbird604) is our guest instructor What: Twitter Tools, a two-hour introduction to Twitter, HootSuite, Twhirl, TweetDeck, and Power Twitter When: 12-2pm, Saturday, February 28th. Repeats every fourth Saturday (next […]
Upcoming Blogging Courses
July 29, 2008
Blogging for Beginners: four hours, start from scratch and learn to post text, video, audio, and images. Basic copyright and blog etiquette, intro to sidebar widgets, categories, custom headers and design, and what on Earth to put IN the blog. Also where to find technical help. This one is running August 2nd, ie this Saturday, […]
Pimp My Blog: Blog Promotion Tips May 3rd
April 29, 2008
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 […]
Vancouver Film School and YouTube hold scholarship contest
March 18, 2008
VFS and YouTube have just announced an international scholarship competition that should interest anyone in eligible countries who is looking towards a career in the entertainment industry. The prize is a full tuition scholarship to internationally-respected Vancouver Film School, the school out of which Kevin Smith dropped to go on to produce the magnum opus, […]
Blogging for Beginners January 5th
December 3, 2007
OUR NEXT CLASS RUNS Saturday, January 5th Current course: Learn to Blog What: a hands-on learn to blog workshop Current course: Learn to Blog Upcoming Courses: Blog Promotion (Pimp My Blog) January 12th, Blogging for Nonprofits and Community Groups, January 23. What: a hands-on learn to blog workshop When: 10-2 Saturday, January 5th, 2007 […]
we are experiencing technical difficulties
September 12, 2007
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commenter’s remorse
September 5, 2007
Most people’s first introduction to writing for blogs is commenting on other people’s blogs; it’s a gateway drug for sure! Some, in fact, develop more of a reputation as commenters than they do as bloggers, and if your wit and wisdom is expressed best in two-to-three sentence bursts, that’s probably right and good. But if […]
no comment? think again!
August 14, 2007
cross-posted from raincoaster and as if you need another reason to click around and comment. Haven’t I always told you that’s what the blogosphere is all about? I didn’t? Humph, I will just go leave a comment on your blog about it then! Well, after losing 2000 places on Technorati recently because apparently nothing I […]
Blogging for Beginners: August 18-25th
August 7, 2007
Just a quick note to let everyone know that raincoaster media (ie me!) will be giving the popular course Bloggging for Beginners again. This will be split into two half-day sessions, a week apart, to give students time to work with their blogs and develop specific questions and fluency. Let’s face it: we were all […]
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