What: Blog Promotion 101

When: 9:30am-12:30 pm, Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Where: Tradeworks Training Society, Chinatown

Why: Now that you’ve got a blog, why toil in obscurity? Whether your goal is global media domination, raising your professional profile, or just getting your voice heard, this course will teach you techniques of effective and appropriate blog promotion. Each course is strictly limited to no more than 10 students, and covers blog basics like:
· what a blog can and can’t do for you, famewise
· professional vs personal profiles and promotion
· community netiquette and joining the blogosphere at large
· what to say when you have nothing to say/what to say when you have far too much to say.

Who: raincoaster media ltd, in partnership with Tradeworks Training Society.

How(much)? $50 tuition prepaid only.
To register: email lorraine.murphy@gmail.com and reserve your space via the secure Paypal link at the top right-hand corner of http://runningthroughrain.wordpress.com. Reservation guaranteed only upon acceptance of payment.

With class size limited to 10, this will be a program of personalized, hands-on learning. Learn how to let Google and Technorati and other search engines know you exist, and begin to take part in the blogging community as a whole, including where to turn when you need help. The session includes an introduction to proven and values-driven blog promotion practices and netiquette. You will leave with all the skills you need to take your blog as high as you want to go. See you on Technorati!

Upcoming Courses: Corporate and Nonprofit Blogging, Blogging for Entrepreneurs, and Photoblogging (online and in Montreal, courtesy Neath of Walking Turcot Yards). Please email to be put on the notification list.

Bio: Lorraine Murphy has been blogging for many years, and her flagship blog, raincoaster, is ranked in the top 15,000 blogs in the world. She maintains The Shebeen Club Blog for the literary group of the same name, running through rain for students of her course Blogging to Personal Growth, and Blogger’s Blurt, a resource for beginning Wordpress bloggers. She mommyblogs at TeenyManolo and celebrityblogs at Ayyyy! Ms Murphy is the author of Terminal City: Vancouver’s Missing Women and a former Small Business Columnist at Business in Vancouver newspaper and Occupational Pursuit magazine. As one of the cornerstone volunteers in the Wordpress.com technical help forums, she has long experience helping beginning bloggers develop fluency and achievement online.

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