About this product: From Boomers to Bloggers offers critical information that will help both individuals and organizations achieve success across generations. Taking time to find common ground can only enhance relationships and company productivity. That common ground can often be found through focusing on the company's vision and mission. When organizations create a space where the strengths of each generation can flourish and are aligned with the vision and mission, they meet with success beyond comprehension.
If you want to start blogging fast, but don’t want to get sidetracked by the details, then you need a Visual QuickProject Guide!
Writing in a journal is all well and good, but when you're ready to share your musings with the world (and you think the world is ready to receive them!), a blog is the way to go. For just $12.99, this compact guide shows you how! Using big, bold full-color pictures and streamlined instructions, it covers just the need-to-know essentials that will get you blogging with leading free blog software--Google’s Blogger--in a matter of minutes. Best-selling author Elizabeth Castro takes you through each step of the blogging process--from acquainting you with the interface to setting up your blog, creating your profile, posting email, adding pictures and audio, and more. Occasional sidebars and tips point out other useful blogging tips and tricks.
About this product: Learn how to build your own blog using Google’s free Blogger service. This book covers the basic and the not-so-basic concepts and technologies that you need to know in order to thrive in the blogging world.
With this book, you will learn how to use Blogger’s Post Editor and Dashboard to create sophisticated postings that include images and hyperlinks, and how to change the look and feel of your blog using templates. Other topics include making money using Google’s AdSense and Amazon.com’s Associates program, using photo blogging services, adding a site counter so that you can track your readership, using Blogger Mobile for mobile blogging, and how to archive your blog. For those of you who have your own Web hosting, you will learn how to publish your blog to your own server.
This book takes a rational, no-nonsense approach in a compact guide. The book is written to give you the basics…fast!
Technical accuracy is assured by Biz Stone, Former Senior Specialist on the Google Blogger Team.
Henry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though marginal and largely invisible to the general public at the time, today, media producers and advertisers, not to mention researchers and fans, take for granted the idea that the success of a media franchise depends on fan investments and participation.
Bringing together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumers, Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers takes readers from Jenkins's progressive early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his more recent work, combating moral panic and defending Goths and gamers in the wake of the Columbine shootings. Starting with an interview on the current state of fan studies, this volume maps the core theoretical and methodological issues in Fan Studies. It goes on to chart the growth of participatory culture on the web, take up blogging as perhaps the most powerful illustration of how consumer participation impacts mainstream media, and debate the public policy implications surrounding participation and intellectual property.
About this product: This practical guide will show you how to make your business blog different from the crowd and attractive to your target audience by implementing the features of WordPress. This book is for current users of the WordPress platform who want to get the most out of WordPress to manage business/professional blogs; it is not an introduction to WordPress and does not cover basics such as installation or creating posts and pages, configuring blog settings, etc. Readers are expected to have a WordPress blog or to be in the advanced stages of planning one. The book is aimed at managers of business/professional blogs, which broadly fall into four categories: Professional Expert Blogs – owned by individuals who blog in their area of expertise to increase their personal exposure and standing. Corporate Blogs – owned by companies that blog to reach customers and encourage closer relationships, sales, and referrals. Online News Sources / Magazines – blogs that provide content on particular topics, funded by ads. Campaign Blogs – not-for-profit blogs run by charities or "causes", designed to promote ideas or encourage certain behaviors. Non-business bloggers will also find the book useful if they want to take their WordPress skills beyond the basics.
About this product: Blogger is a blog publishing system from Google with a friendly interface specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs. It allows users to easily create dynamic blogs with great content and many outstanding features including RSS feeds, link-backs, photo slideshows, and integration with popular Google applications like Picasa. Its versatility and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users. If you want to create powerful, fully-featured blogs in no time, this book is for you. This book will focus on transforming a typical blog into a fresh, professional blog that stands out from the crowd. It starts with introduction to an example blog, discussing what it is lacking, and then adding all the features of Blogger to make it a successful blog. This book will tell you how to transform a slow-paced typical business blog into an attractive and interactive profit-making blog with measurable results. It has a very user-friendly approach and shares tips, tricks, and resources to continue to grow your blog.
About this product: Bloggers' Delight Vol. 1 takes a refreshing approach to Love and Redemption by offering several depictions of the theme while featuring authors of varying cultural backgrounds and genders. Bloggers' Delight is a revolutionary literary concept, which utilizes the internet's influence of web logs and Americans deep-rooted passion for poetry and prose. The contributor criterion requires that the work considered for publication be created by individuals who host web logs. That approach resulted in the contributing talent for Love and Redemption to be reflective of many regions of the United States. Participants reside in Atlanta, GA St. Louis, MO Lansing, MI Bronx, NY Quincy, IL San Diego, CA and Miami, FL. In addition to pursuing writing, the project representatives careers range from Educator, Housewife, Graduate Student, Programmer/Analyst, Network Specialist, Commercial Artist, to Retired Military Professional. Readers of this new book will find themselves cheering for each of the main characters as they seek to attain, Love and/or Redemption in their respective lives. In Rey of Hope, Reyna struggles to deal with her love for Antoine after he makes a surprising disclosure of his intentions. Smoke, showcases the love that Willie and Smoke have for teen-aged Tyrell in this story of fatherhood, mentorship and overcoming obstacles. The Mending, takes us on a compassionate journey as Jarl Deaks, America s hero, deals with the love of country after returning home from a tour of duty in Iraq. In, One to Remember, Everett tries to dodge karma s bullet as he seeks the heart of the beautiful Samaya James. Enjoy this Southern tale of love as Everett attempts to maintain brotherly loyalty, escape his horrid past and land the girl of his dreams. Toss-A-Cross, gives us a closer look at a day in the life of Mac Jones. Recently separated from the love of his life, Mac comes face to face with the fury of his scorned seductress. Negotiating Compromises, teaches us that revenge can be patient and calculating, especially when it is the result of infidelity. In addition to being fascinated by the wonderful stories in this volume, readers will be delighted as they read the poems nestled among the pages of this great literary find. Leading the poetic charge will be Saadia Ali Aschemann, author of lavish lines ~ luscious lies. Bloggers Delight has some seasoned writers, but it will also prove to be a source for promising new talent and readers will be astonished that they had the opportunity to experience these writers at the wondrous beginning of their writing careers.
About this product: The term "blog" wasn't coined until 1999 and yet by 2004, it had become Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Globally, the number of blogs is doubling every six months, with more than 50 million blogs online today. Here to offer a unique overview of the emerging phenomenon that even armchair observers will find curiosity-satisfying is Dispatches from Blogistan: A Travel Guide for the Modern Blogger.
Filled with practical, easy-to-implement advice for making blogging more enjoyable, useful, and profitable, this book covers everything from blogging and how it fits into the history of journalism to practical tips for planning and managing a blog, attracting and retaining an active readership. Written by noted technology journalist and interactive media veteran Suzanne Stefanac, the book features a fresh and succinct approach; quotes and commentary from noted and celebrity bloggers (author/futurist Bruce Sterling, NPR commentator Farai Chideya, Craig Newmark of craigslist.com, and Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing editor and science fiction author, among others); an accompanying blog site (dispatchesfromblogistan.com); and more. Stefanac explores issues of trust, influence, privacy, discovery, and the power of collaborative discourse, making this is a blog book like no other!
About this product: Who’s Watching the Watchdog, Anyway? Just ask CBS News. In 2004, the network came into possession of allegedly authentic National Guard documents which claimed that President Bush had failed to perform his duties when he was in the National Guard during the Vietnam War. But the documents were forged, and bloggers, not the mainstream news media, broke that story. From the Introduction: The metaphor of watchdog has long been popular as shorthand for the structural role of the free press in a representative democracy. ... But what of that watchdog’s leash? If the people need a watchdog to make sure the institution of government does not abuse the power they have granted it, would there not be a need for a comparable check on the press, as a social institution with power in its own right? ... This little book is not intended as either an endorsement or a criticism of the ideological or political views of any bloggers ... Instead, this work is intended as an exploration of the distinct types of media criticism which have evolved in the blogosphere ... . [W]e might now be seeing the emergence of a Fifth Estate in our social system, a watcher of the watchdog. In one sentence, the thesis of this little book is that the blogosphere is in the process of maturing into a full-fledged social institution, albeit a non-traditional one: emergent, self-organizing, and self-regulating.
About this product: Google Blogger for Dummies will be written for the core Blogger user community - beginner bloggers. It will start with the basics of blogging describing what blogging is, the pros and cons of blogging, choosing a blog topic and so on. From there, it will progress in a linear fashion from the most basic topics to the more advanced subjects, including: * Why you should choose Blogger as your blogging software * How to start a Blogger account * Writing content with Blogger * Managing Blogger accounts and content * Enhancing Blogger blogs with add-ons, themes and so on * Monetizing Blogger blogs * Marketing Blogger blogs * Extending Blogger blogs through mobile blogging, multi-user blogging
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