{"id":4265,"date":"2009-08-22T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/2009\/08\/helpful-thoughts-on-writing-a-blog-post\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T03:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T08:07:00","slug":"helpful-thoughts-on-writing-a-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2009\/08\/22\/helpful-thoughts-on-writing-a-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpful thoughts on writing a blog post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a blog post can be daunting.  You have a page staring back at you and you want to be informative, clever, and maybe a little silly.  Luckily, there are several tutorials online to help you out.<\/p>\n<p>The ECPN blog is run through blogger.com.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">Youtube.com <\/a>is a great source for how-to videos of blogging.<br \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BnploFsS_tY\">the basics<\/a> of setting up a blogger account and writing a post, an example of adding pictures from the internet see<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BnploFsS_tY\"> this tutorial<\/a>.<br \/>There are also youtube videos about adding youtube videos to a blog<\/p>\n<p>Blogger provides a comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/blogger\/bin\/topic.py?hl=en&amp;topic=12457\">help section<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;ve covered the basics and the how-to, I would like to open a discussion about what makes a blog interesting and fun to read.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write about what you know: I think this is most important, and if you have a specialized knowledge of something in conservation you would like to share, that&#8217;s great. People will love to hear about it.  Blogs are written by people, not corporations, and people want to know what <span style=\"font-style: italic\">YOU<\/span> think.<\/li>\n<li>Be honest, share your opinions, offer hints and advice, write a review about:books, articles, workshops, museums, websites, other blogs .  The best blog posts are discussions that offer information, lots of links to sources for more information, and ask a questions to start a dialogue between the blogger and the reader.<\/li>\n<li>Link as much as you can, let the reader decide what information they can follow. This <a href=\"http:\/\/coderstalk.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/how-to-create-hyperlink-on-blogger-post.html\">tutorial<\/a> can help you to add links in your posts.   <\/li>\n<li>Add photos and video if you can.  There may be rules and regulations depending on your museum, and we hope to address those issues in future posts.  <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xJeNa2YbfJM\/So9h5I10xsI\/AAAAAAAAAC0\/vquEzAHGN-s\/s1600-h\/3403756800_c682a0a4fb_m.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 200px;height: 150px\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xJeNa2YbfJM\/So9h5I10xsI\/AAAAAAAAAC0\/vquEzAHGN-s\/s200\/3403756800_c682a0a4fb_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372620514729969346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> I did find a number of photos of the <a href=\"http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/lunder\/index.cfm\">Lunder Conservation  Center<\/a> at the Smithsonian <a href=\"http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/\">American Art <\/a>Museum online, and with <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">Creative Commons <\/a>I can use the photos if they are attributed correctly and not used for profit.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>from flickr.com<\/p>\n<div><a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nostri-imago\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nostri-imago\/<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The information I used for this post I found on  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mintblogger.com\/2008\/02\/how-to-write-good-blog-post.html\">this site<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2005\/12\/30\/tens-tips-for-writing-a-blog-post\/\">this one<\/a>. But a simple search for &#8220;How to write a blog post&#8221; will give you many other sites.   <\/li>\n<li>But to really begin you need to understand and become part of the blogosphere by reading and becoming actively engaged with other bloggers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/windsormedia.blogs.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/blog_or_not_to_blog.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 350px;height: 250px\" src=\"http:\/\/windsormedia.blogs.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/blog_or_not_to_blog.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coxandforkum.com\/\">http:\/\/www.coxandforkum.com\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Here is my conservation blog and a few other blogs I read and enjoy. You can read them, post comments, link to them, and join in the conversation on the <a href=\"http:\/\/emergingconservator.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/ecpn-needs-you.html\">ECPN<\/a> blog<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalyconservation.com\/\">http:\/\/www.dalyconservation.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dancull.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/dancull.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ellencarrlee.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/ellencarrlee.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bethhellerconservation.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/bethhellerconservation.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffpeachey.wordpress.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/jeffpeachey.wordpress.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imamuseum.org\/blog\/category\/conservation\/\">http:\/\/www.imamuseum.org\/blog\/category\/conservation\/<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Posting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing a blog post can be daunting. You have a page staring back at you and you want to be informative, clever, and maybe a little silly. Luckily, there are several tutorials online to help you out. The ECPN blog is run through blogger.com.Youtube.com is a great source for how-to videos of blogging.From the basics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2009\/08\/22\/helpful-thoughts-on-writing-a-blog-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Helpful thoughts on writing a blog post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecpn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}