It's been a busy start to the new year and I'm a little behind on where I wanted to be with the pre-work for this Saturday's kickoff of my first Blogging 101 workshop.
I have high hopes for the quality of the content and I'm currently sitting elbow deep in a slew of interesting statistics, techniques, lists, tips, and other assorted useful bits of information. Getting it all tied together into something coherent is a wonderfully frustrating exercise.
Granted, it also doesn't help that I keep popping off on research tangents and being interrupted by other things--welcome things like visiting friends and slightly less welcome things like bringing work home. But, the work is related to the non-work stuff, like this Blogging 101 workshop, so it all balances out, I suppose.
The various circles of friends I'm in have provided some great ideas about what they'd like to learn about in a Blogging 101 workshop. There are the very expected ones like "How to get traffic", "What platform to use", and "How to make it pay." There have also been some very insightful ones--like "How to deal with trolls" and dealing with privacy and safety.
If there's something you'd like to suggest, comment! If it doesn't make it into this workshop, it'll most certainly be fodder for a Blogging 201 workshop later.
This first one is made possible by the wonderful people from the DC Bloggers Meetup. RSVP for the event here.
