WordPress Blogs: Guide

Develop a blog thst you can use to introduce yourself to our class, to summarize your readings of documentation project management, and to comment on others' summaries. (For full credit on assignment, you must write your self-introduction, write the summaries of the chapters you are assigned, and write comments on all the other summaries.)

Resources

Here is the definitive recording on developing a blog using WordPress:

• Jill Brockmann. Preparation for WordPress Blogs. A-blogging we shall go.... Please do the preparation work described in this link before class.
• David McMurrey. Creating a blog with WordPress
• David McMurrey. Using Pages in WordPress

Requirements

Here are the requirements for this blogging activity:

• Start a blog using WordPress. When you do this for free, WordPress adds wordpress to your URL.
• Write a blog in which you introduce yourself to our class.
• Use the standards of good writing in your blog post as well as in the comments.
• When you complete your blog, post a link to it in this listing for our class:
  
  David McMurrey students
• Say hi to someone in our class by posting a comment on that person's blog.
• View and comment on blogs:
  
  David McMurrey students
• Experiment with "moderating" posts to your blog so that not just anybody can post anything in your blog.

Other Resources

Here are some other readings on how to create a blog:

• Blogger. After Google acquired Blogger, you now have to set up a Google account to access Blogger.
• How to Write a Blog People Want to Read. Provided by Susan Gunelius, About.com Guide.
• How to Start a Blog. From wikiHow.

Here are some places where you can create a blog:

• https://www.blogger.com/start
• http://www.vox.com/
• http://www.thoughts.com/
• http://wordpress.com/
• http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Blog_Resources/ (this one lists numerous free blog services)

Here are some readings on blogging strategies:

• Top 50 Accounting Blogs. From biz.com. (Watch out! I've read every one of them!)
• Golden Practices Blog: Accounting Blog List
• Accounting Blogs. This page states that "the AICPA has an article about why accounting firms should blog, and it includes a nice list of existing accounting blogs," but I can't find it.
• Why you must start with a WELL-ENGAGING, WELL-CONVERTING WEBSITE . Part 1 of 2. Why just having a website is not good enough..

Provided hcexres@prismnet.com.