I have an amazing opportunity to teach blogging workshops through The Writer’s Center this Winter and Spring and I was asked to brainstorm some subject ideas and this is what I came up with. What do you think?
“Blogs, Blogging and the Blogosphere: Influence World Culture from the Comfort of Your Writing Room”
Blogs are no longer just online personal diaries. Blogs and bloggers have become powerful influences in world culture. Blogs have uniquely been able to jump the rails into traditional media and bloggers are now routinely being quoted in the news and on television. This one-day class will explain why blogs have changed the balance of media power and how you can cheaply, easily, and powerfully take advantage of it. There has never been a time when it is so easy and possible to become part of a global conversation.
“Selling (More) Books by Blogging: How to Use Blogs to Market Your Book(s) and Yourself”
Blogs are a powerful part of selling books and an essential part of marketing yourself as a writer. Book tours are sexy, but don’t rely on your agent and publisher for everything. Take control of your brand and your marketing strategy by attending this one-day class on starting a “PR Blog.” Allow your readers, your fans (current and future), and the media learn more about you, the writer and author. Share parts of your book, explore your process. A blog is a zero-barrier-to-entry strategy that gives back much more than you put it. Don’t ignore the hottest marketing strategy in decades.
“Starting a Blog is Only the First Step: How to Make Friends and Influence People in the Blogosphere”
Okay, you have a blog and consider yourself a blogger. The next step is how to build your prestige, your readership, and your reputation. This one-day class will demystify process of taking your humble personal blog and developing it into a respected voice, an influential opinion leader, and a popular resource. Being brilliant, funny, insightful, and inspired is just the beginning, learn how to help your hungry audience find you.
“A Blog of One’s Own: How to Write Your World to the World Through Effective Online Journaling”
Writing for online consumption is much different from writing for the page. Learn how to write for the Internet and the blogosphere in this one-day class focused on the unique and powerful way the blogosphere communicated and how you can best leverage your own personal passion, your own personal artistic voice, and your unique perception of the world into an online organ that very well could change the world.
