Category Archives: Blogging 101

Writing ledes, writing for feeds…

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Too many ledes in tech publications and blogs suck. I’ve been doing more editing and more content curation lately. The upshot of that is noticing a lot of really boring, fluffy, slow-to-the-point ledes that utterly fail at drawing the reader … Continue reading →

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Just say no to all caps in press releases

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Got a press release via email today about a major update to an interesting program related to social media. Good, except: The release trailed the news on Twitter by at least 12 hours. The subject line WAS IN ALL CAPS. … Continue reading →

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Improving Your WordPress Blog: Five Essential Plugins

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

WordPress is a full-featured and simple to use publishing platform, and it just gets better with each release. But even as good as the standard WordPress release is, you can always make it just a little bit better. In this … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the iPad

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Yes, like thousands of others yesterday I decided to plunk down a little cash for a spanking new iPad. Like thousands of others, I figured I’d give a couple of quick thoughts on my experience with it so far. I’m … Continue reading →

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Blogging 101: Conducting interviews for media

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

A good friend of mine from the FLOSS community is going to be doing some interviews for his blog at an upcoming conference, and asked for a few tips on interviewing. Interviewing is not a science, but an art: And … Continue reading →

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Writing professionally: Do you really want to?

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

I get a lot of emails from a friends, colleagues, acquaintances, or random strangers asking me how to get started writing. Since the question comes up a lot, I thought it might be worth a post here. Maybe it will … Continue reading →

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Blogging 101: Take a Tip from Newswriting with the Five W’s

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Who? When? Why? What? Where? How? If you don’t answer those questions, why bother blogging at all? The “Five W’s” as they’re often called (and one H) are drilled into every journalism student as crucial for news-writing. Who is involved? … Continue reading →

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