Become a blogger in 1 day with Blogger

Formats: Webinar presentations
Topics: Getting established in the translation industry
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Course summary
Start time:Jun 23, 2011 16:00 GMT     Add to calendar

Duration: 60 minutes. Check what time the course is running in your local time here Links to handouts and video recording will be emailed to all registered and paid users within 5 working days after the training.
Language:English
Summary:One hour long introduction to the world of blogging using Google owned platform www.Blogger.com. This very practical, aimed at beginners presentation leads participants from setting up a blog through its configuration to more advanced techniques like mobile blogging.

Further development: Become a blogger in 1 day with Wordpress
Description
This course presents skills required to set up, configure and run a successful blog. In this webinar I will show how, by performing a few simple tasks you may significantly increase number of visitors to your blog, make it more user friendly and easier to follow. However blog is not just a second website. It has different objectives.
First of all blogging is more about interaction with readers - to that end I will explain various options regarding comments, polls, following, etc.
Second of all blogging is about catching the moment - it is about here and now - that's why during the webinar I will show various options of mobile blogging - i.e. posting to your blog through SMS, MMS and email.

Please see detailed course program below.
Target audience
Everyone interested in blogging. Webinar does not assume any previous knowledge and is addressed most of all to beginners in the field of blogging.
Learning objectives
After watching the webinar students should be able to set up their blogs at www.Bloger.com configure them and start blogging.
Prerequisites
none
Program
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- setting up a blog at www.blogger.com
- configuration of profile
- choosing theme (template)
- publishing a blog under your own domain (i.e. www.YourBlog.com)
- navigation
- adding pictures
- adding videos
- automatic content from other sources
- submitting to search engines
- comments - decision who and how may post comments to your blog and also how to keep track of new comments
- authors - if you wish so you may add additional authors who may post articles on your blog
- mobile blogging (SMS, MMS, email)
- making it easier to follow your blog
- integrating your blog with social media
- integrating a blog with external sources of content
- Useful "gadgets" addons you can add to your blog to increase its appeal/functionality among others you may add to your blog:
- statistics,
- polls
- posting do social media
- recommending
- lists of followers
- slideshows
- lists of blogs
Created by
 Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL    View feedback | View all courses
Bio: Graduated from the faculty of law of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). Studied translation at Westminster University in London. Works as a freelance translator since 2004, full time since 2006. Specializes in English-Polish legal translation. Currently works on English – Polish dictionary of legal terminology. Keenly interested in development of search technology and search engine optimization. Always experimenting with SEO of his website http://www.polish-translation.biz
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