CDC Blogging Session

The web page version of the PowerPoint presentation, I'm sorry to say, does not survive uploading to the blog server. The formatting gets lost in the shuffle. So we go to Plan B. Here is a downloadable .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) version. Click "More" for the live links...

Who blogs?
VoteLaw
Bay Area Bites
Jerry Brown

Free blog software and hosting
Blogger
WordPress

Not free...
...but flexible. Easy to design, easy to use, yet very powerful. You're looking at a TypePad blog right now.
TypePad

Note: Website hosts often provide free software as part of their hosting package. In its Linux hosting package, for example, GoDaddy.com offers several blogging solutions, as well as bulletin boards and other goodies! Not a bad deal at all

Communities
You have to set up an "account," but it's free
Daily Kos
My DD
Booman Tribune

You don't need to know about these, but you probably should
Blogrolling
Bloglines
Technorati

And don't forget to let me know your ideas about
ProgressCalifornia

P.S. Remember these tips
Make it a practice to comment on several high-readership blogs every day, or ones whose subject matter or field of interest is similar to yours. And sign your post with a link to your own blog.

If you link to another blog and that blog has “Trackbacks” — be sure to track back. That way, other readers of the post on the other blog will probably visit your post as well.

On sites like Daily Kos that have Recommended diaries, getting yourself on that list will get you a lot of “eyeballs.” As noted during the session, you have to work at this. :-)

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Cheers from Ellen
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