Current course: Blogging for Entrepreneurs

What: Blogging for Entrepreneurs build a blog workshop

When: 9:30-4:30 Saturday, November 24^th, 2007

Where: Tradeworks Training Society, Downtown Vancouver

Why: Get a blog up and running in one day with personal instruction in small classes. This workshop covers blog basics like:

• what a blog can and can’t do for you
• podcasting, video, audio, and text posts
• basic copyright law and accepted practices
• presenting a professional image
• doing business over blogs
• advertising: gold mine or black hole?
• solving basic technical problems, where to find help
• how to increase your readership

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

Contact bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com or 778-235-0592.

How(much)? $100 tuition. Please pre-register to ensure your reservation.

With class size limited to 8, this will be a program of personalized, hands-on learning. During the class you will create your own blog, tweak the design, publish your first few posts, add a YouTube video, and even some music. You will leave with a functional, personalized blog and all the skills you need to run it.

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 20,000 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.

Contact us for more details at bloggingclasses AT gmail DOT com.

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