Gaynor’s Top Five Tips for New Bloggers

Choose an easy-to-use blog creation service

The thought of setting up a webpage can be overwhelming, so find a blog creation site like http://www.Blogger.com that makes setting up your first webpage quite painless

Be interested and enthusiastic about your topic

Generally, if you are passionate about your topic, your enthusiasm will “suck” other people into your “conversation”. This is a good thing as people will want to return to see what you have to say next.

Update and add frequently

People get hooked on other people’s writing. Most people have a favourite author and get very excited about the release of their next novel. Bloggers are the same; they get hooked on a particular bloggers writing style and topics, and love checking the site regularly to see what is new. If nothing is added for a while they lose interest and stop checking.

Benefit from praise and constructive criticism

Like any writing for an audience, you need to read the comments left by other bloggers: accept praise when it is given and, take constructive criticism on board as a positive means of improving your writing and your blogs.

Possibly the most important tip though is:

Do it because you want to

Blogging is suppose to be fun and interesting, so do it because you want to!!

Although NET11 requires us to do a blog as part of our assessment, we should grab this opportunity with both hands, be positive about our abilities, and use this medium to learn from our peers and to learn about our ability to communicate via the web.