Everything You Want To Know About Blogs & Blogging

This session will cover everything you need to know about launching, writing and publicizing your organization's blog -- from which software to use to 10 tips for better blogging. Sign Up Today at http://www.newstips.org!

Designed for organizations and artists wondering how a blog can help with publicity, issue advocacy and message management, this session will address the resources needed and the questions to ask before jumping on the blog bandwagon.

Participants will also learn the following:

• How to make their voices heard in the growing blogosphere
• How to track what's being discussed in the media and on other blogs using RSS feeds and online tools.
• Numerous handouts will be provided, and a class blog will be available to participants Sign up Today at http://www.newstips.org
  

Trainer Christine Cupaiuolo is a freelance writer/editor and media consultant who specializes in developing blogs and online communities for nonprofit organizations. She has worked with the Arts & Business Council of Chicago and University of Illinois Extension, among other groups.

She currently writes for OurBodiesOurBlog.org, the blog of Our Bodies Ourselves, a nonprofit, public interest women's health organization, and contributes to other publications.

Christine started writing online in 2000, when she founded the magazine PopPolitics.com. In 2002, she created ms.musings, Ms. magazine's blog on women, media and culture, becoming one of the first bloggers to write for a national magazine. She was later hired as Ms. magazine's online editor. Christine previously worked as a researcher/writer for C-SPAN and as a government and legal reporter for the Rutland Herald (Vt.) and a weekly newspaper in New York. Her feature writing and investigative reporting have been recognized by the press associations of those states.