Image: Hugh Macleod, Gaping Void

Welcome to A Beginner’s Guide to Blogging, a five part introductory guide which will:

• Demystify and show you an overview of web 2.0 technologies for online publishing
• Offer you practical advice to help you set up your first blog with technical options and considerations for developing your content and approach
• Show you some great blogs and self-publishing projects to see how others are doing it for themselves

Contents:

Part 1:           So what’s all this blogging and web 2.0 stuff about anyway?

Part 2:           What to blog about and how to approach it

Part 3:           Online editing: structure, categories and tagging

Part 4:           Tech Talk – RSS and selecting your blogging platform

Part 5:           Blogging resources

You can also download this guide as a free 12 page PDF report here

This guide is produced by digital consultant, a creative, networked UK consultancy which helps independent businesses successfully use and profit from the web and digital tools, and provides business consultancy to the digital industries.

I’d welcome your feedback on this publication to inform future revisions. Please contact me with your thoughts or add to the comments of this guide below.

I do hope this guide inspires you to launch and grow your first website or blog.

Susi O’Neill

Director, digital consultant