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If you haven’t registered for our next Blogging course, now is the time, because we are starting up the next 8-week series on January 11. 

I took the course. I loved it. Everyone does. Sign up Now!

Blogging 101 is an instructor-led course that will guide you through all the basics of creating and establishing a new blog.   With Blogging 101, you will even have a built-in audience for your first posts – - your fellow classmates!  You will have fun learning with them and from them, and getting honest feedback and comments on your blog content.  Plus, your instructor, experienced blogger and writer, Topsy Techie will hold your hand as you go step by step through the process of creating and starting your new blog.  The Blogging 101 course is more than just a class – - it is a community of people who want to see you succeed in the world of blogging.

This is going to be a terrific course, so register today for the blogging course and don’t miss out on your chance to start a New Blog for the New Year!!

Disclosure – The blog writing course is part of Time4Writing and Time4Learning for which I work!  Time4Writing teaches writing online to homeschoolers and Time4Learning is an online homeschooling curriculum.

I’m a big blogger. Not that I’m a big name blogger but I blog in some important ways for me.

1. I blog to collect my thoughts. As a tool for reflection and to record decisions that I’ve made. I tend to have a blog on each topic that I think about. This blog, for instance, is about my thinking on blogging. I tend to keep these blogs anonymous since I intend them as journals. They are only public because of reason 2.
2. I blog to support my core businesses.  As we say, a BLOG can be said to stand for: a Better Listing on Google. Writing a blog with links done appropriately can help build your position in the search engines. So as long as I’m writing to keep track of my thoughts, I might as well make them public, insert a few links and get some extra google juice from them.

With that background, here are four resolutions that I’ve made about blogging for 2010.
1.  Disclosure. I’m going to strive to be more upfront and put a disclosure policy on each of my blogs. This blog is run by the owner/founder of http://www.blogwritingcourse.com. I also created/run other sites including Time4Writing.com and Time4Learning.com.  My endorsements and enthusiasm for those sites should be taken with the large grain of salt that such a close commercial relationship engenders. (woops, really mixed my metaphors and confused my grammar there….)
2. Organization.  I’ve never really organized a blog well for very long. I’m talking about using tags and categories in a truly effective way. I’m hoping this year to build or rebuild a blog or so in which I master and maintain tight organization.
3.  Sustained effort to build readers and community. I tend to focus on a blog for awhile as I’m exploring an area and then move onto another one.  The result is that a community of readers and participants never really gets developed.  This year, I’m trying to be more systematic about building some of my blogs.
4.  I’m going to try to push these same principles through a few key people on my team.

an initial target to implement these efforts is a homeschooling blog that I’ve created which is full of potential. It’s the online homeschooling blog.