I am scheduled to give a presentation on Genealogy Blogging on March 17th to the Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to say about genea-blogging, but I thought I would ask my loyal readers to help me out.
My outline for the 60 minute talk (on a laptop with Internet access and a projector) is:
1. What is blogging?
2. Why do people blog?
3. What are genealogy blogs good for? Not good for?
4. Different types of genea-blogs - news, tips, personal research, quiz, humor, etc.
5. Blog host sites
6. Carnival of genealogy
7. Demonstrate setting up a new blog on Blogger
8. Demonstrate making a post
9. Demonstrate editing a post
10. Demonstrate changing blog format
11. Demonstrate Bloglines
12. Visit a number of typical blogs
13. Visit Blog aggregators
What else should I talk about? What genealogy blog sites should I visit (I can hear all the bloggers saying "MINE!"). Any other ideas? Please put them in comments. Thanks.
3 comments:
Ralph Brandi's hasn't been updated in a while, but it was the first great example of a personal genealogy blog. http://www.brandi.org/geneablogy/
The best currently maintained personal genealogy blog would be Steve Danko's, in my opinion.
Randy,
How about adding something on blog etiquette?
Janice
60 minutes isn't much time!
A brief mention of copy write concerns.
I get lots of questions about posting pictures. You might include options such as imageshack, picasa, flickr, etc.
I also get lots of questions about html. You won't have enough time to cover this but maybe you could include a link to some basics.
You might cover group blogs, they don't seem to be used much in the genealogy community but would be perfect for a genealogy society.
You could also mention private blogs. I have one for my family for sharing personal details that we wouldn't want to share with the whole world. Another use of a group blog.
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