The Dos and Donts of Personal Blogging

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The Dos and Donts of Personal Blogging

• Speaker Lauren L. Dado

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The Most Important Do

• Do learn to tell the difference between
• Bloggable things
• Non-bloggable things
• Bloggable things ? aspects of your life that are
  safe, harmless, and wholesome
• Non-bloggable things ? information about yourself
  and your life that can do serious damage to your
  reputation
• Its up to you to blog about non-bloggable things
  BUT remember that anyone can access your blog

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The Dos

• Give your audience a reason to read your blog
• Check and reply to your comments
• Give your readers a clear idea of whats going on
• Make informed opinions on touchy subjects
• Include pictures if you can

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Do

• give your audience a reason to read your blog
• How
• Narrate the days events in a creative manner
• Look at things from a different perspective

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Do

• check and reply to your comments
• Why
• It will encourage them to come back to your blog
• It opens up avenues for discussion

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Do

• give your readers a clear idea of whats going
  on
• How
• Provide a little back story BUT do not go into
  too much detail if thats not the point of your
  entry
• Avoid the use of inside jokes
• Minimize use of Tagalog words (this depends on
  your audience)

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Do

• make informed opinions on touchy subjections
  like politics, current events, religion, etc.
• Why
• Nothing is more irritating than an opinion that
  has no factual basis

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Do

• include pictures if you have a digital camera at
  hand
• Why
• Pictures can say more than words ever could

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The Donts

• Do NOT use text speak or l337 speak
• Do not belittle your blogging skills
• NEVER use your blog to make personal attacks

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Dont

• use text-speak or l33t speak
• Why
• Bcuz no1 wl wnt 2 read ur blog f u type lyk dis
• /\\ ) \ 0 1 15 l337 3 \0(_) 6/-/ 4
  l337-5gt34k

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Dont

• write entry after entry belittling your blogging
  skills
• Why
• Because it makes you look like an attention-whore

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Dont

• use your blog to make personal attacks on anyone
  FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER
• Why
• Your college roommates might never speak to you
  forever, making the rest of the school year
  extremely awkward
• A certain celebritys mother can get you in
  trouble with your college dean. For serious.