Blogging Tips

Attend IZEAFest Virtually—Video Streaming

You, too, can watch my talk “Improving Your Content” at IZEAFest (Oh, and everyone else’s talk, too!)

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The Art of Business Podcast Is Up!

The The Art of Business podcast we were talking about is up!  If you are not doing anything at the moment, why not give it a listen!  We talk about the book, how we write and read blogs, and a bunch of other great blogging information.

Thanks to Rebecca for taking the time to talk with us.  But that is not all, she also sat down and wrote up a summary of the interview over on The Next Stage - a blog about artists and live performance.

Learning How to Live Blog

I read a great post by Jonathan McGee on The Chatroll Blog that I wanted to share with you. Jonathan put together a terrific list of tips of people who want to do live blogging, and do it well.

Live blogging is the practice of blogging while attending an event, so that people who aren’t there can keep track of what is happening. You see a lot of live blogging at conferences (especially technical ones) and when you see a really good live blogger doing it it’s almost as good as listening to a podcast of the event after the fact.

My favorite thing about live blogging is when the person doing the blogging interjects their personal opinions as little asides to the notes he or she takes during a talk or lecture. I really love those little extra tidbits about what is happening in the room, or what the audience reaction is to controversial points.

A good live blogger definitely needs to be a quick typist and a good listener, but it’s different from just transcribing an event—there’s a certain amount of synthesizing information so you hit the highlights without getting bogged down in unneeded detail. And a really good live blogger tracks down any materials used during the presentation (like PowerPoint slides), and links up Web sites that come up during the talk.

I think Jonathan’s first tip is the best, though: “Tip #1: Know your audience (a.k.a. Do you really need to live blog the event?)” Just because you can live blog an event doesn’t mean you need to or even should!

Read Jonathan’s complete post here.

Have you ever live blogged something? Do you have any tips to share?