Blogging Books, eBooks, Courses
Blogging eBooks, Videos
Darren Rowse's 31 Days to Build a Better Blog is a downloadable e-book designed to help you revitalize your blog by giving you 31 tasks that will all help to turn it into the page view powerhouse you’ve always dreamed of.
Blog Post Engineering is a systematic, by the numbers, step-by-step procedure to help you cover all the bases you need to score big with both readers and search engines on any blog post.
B.L. Ochman, noted Internet strategist, PR guru and influential
blogger gives you scores of examples of successful business
blogs, advice on what to blog about and why, plus dozens of
resources you can use immediately.
Don't let writer's block stop you from doing what you have
to do to promote your business. Frequent business blogging
is becoming critical to the success of a web site. The Googlebot
is always looking for fresh content and updates. Every time
you use your blog and RSS feed to bring a client back to your
site you are that much closer to a sale. Tinu Abayomi Paul
gives you a cheat sheet of topics to write about during those
lean blogging periods.
Blogging Books in Print
Blogging:
Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content by Biz
Stone
Turn your home page into a microportal with fresh content that
will keep readers coming back. The first hands-on book on building
blogs, this is an excellent tutorial for new bloggers, and includes
many advanced techniques for veteran bloggers. Simply put, web
logging, known as blogging, is an easy way of updating a web
page via a browser without the hassle of launching an FTP client
or HTML editor. With all the templates, add-ons, and extra features
associated with building this microportal, the blog is a new
take on the home page. The blog brings the voice of its creator
to the surface, builds it into the design, and keeps the content
fresh and meaningful. This book features hands-on tutorials
for building a blog, adding a user based commenting system,
adding team members, syndicating with JavaScript, adding searches
to a site, and much more. This is the book for creative web-enthusiasts
looking for the "next thing" and it's the first book
of new ideas and advanced tutorials for bloggers already numbering
in the hundreds of thousands.
Also by Biz Stone: Who
Let the Blogs Out? : A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs
The
Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining
Your Blog by Rebecca Blood.
Weblogs -- frequently updated, independently produced, and curiously
addictive -- have become some of the most popular sites on the
Web today. The Weblog Handbook is the first book to explain
how weblogs work and explore their impact on the media landscape.
There is no formula for creating a superb weblog--but there
are lessons to be drawn from maintaining one. In The Weblog
Handbook, Rebecca Blood draws on her experience as an early
participant in the weblog community to share what she has learned
in three years of "living online." Rebecca explains
how to choose among the available tools, even walking the beginner
through the process of creating their first weblog. She answers
commonly asked questions concerning weblog etiquette, how to
attract readers, and the qualities that make a weblog stand
out, alerting the novice to considerations -- and pitfalls --
they didn't know to ask about. For students of digital culture,
The Weblog Handbook provides an account of the history of the
movement, an explanation of the "weblog method", and
a thoughtful examination of weblogs and journalism. Finally,
Rebecca examines how the weblog community has grown and changed,
the dangers confronting it, and the ways in which weblogs are
affecting and affected by both online and offline culture.
Blog
On: Building Online Communities with Web Logs by
Todd Stauffer
Explains how to set up a web site that is designed to be updated
with items in a linear, time-based fashion. The author compares
several of the weblog packages available, describes how to choose
an ISP for the weblog, and walks through the process of uploading
and configuring three weblog packages: Greymatter, Movable Type,
and pMachine. Expand your site using message boards, mailing
lists, and numerous other features to maintain and promote community
with help from this easy-to-understand guide. Includes practical
tips for making tweaks and improvements with HTML, Flash, Web
images, and much more.
We
Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs by Paul Bausch,
Matthew Haughey, Meg Hourihan, Paul Bausch, Matthew Haughey,
Meg Hourihan
Your Complete Guide to Creating and Maintaining Weblogs! Written
by a team of weblog pioneers-the people who helped create Blogger
and the MetaFilter community blog - this book shows you how
to build, evolve and automate weblogs for personal and business
use. We Blog begins with a complete overview of blog history,
the different kinds of weblogs that exist today, and more. It
further explains how to create, expand, and promote your own
blog, from getting the most out of a variety of blogging tools
and services to building a blog for business and expanding your
audience through syndication.
Essential
Blogging by Shelley Powers, Cory Doctorow, J.
Scott Johnson, Mena G. Trott, Benjamin Trott, Rael Dornfest
Written by prominent bloggers and authors of blogging tools,
Essential Blogging is a no-nonsense guide to the technology
of blogging. Essential Blogging helps you select the right blogging
software for your needs and show how to get your blog up and
running. You'll learn the ingredients of a successful blog,
and then get detailed installation, configuration and operation
instructions for the leading blogging software: Blogger, Radio
Userland, Movable Type, and Blosxom. After showing you how to
acquire, set-up, and run these leading software packages, Essential
Blogging takes you through the more advanced features, so that
by the time you finish, you'll be up and blogging with the best
of them.
The
Complete Idiot's Guide To Creating A Web Page And Blog
by Paul McFedries
The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Creating a Web Page
and Blog will help anyone build and maintain an Internet website
or blog. Coverage includes:
• Step-by-step instructions for building a site from the
ground up
• Important HTML tags
• Tips on using fonts, colors, and images
• Incorporating tables, forms, style sheets, and JavaScripts
• The new blog technology
• Plus! A "Webmaster’s Toolkit" on a companion
CD-ROM, providing files used in this book.
Buzz
Marketing with Blogs For Dummies by Susannah Gardner
This book will clearly define what blogging is and what is its
value to businesses, from corporate communications and content
management to marketing, advertising, and customer relations.
We've
Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture
by Editors of Perseus Publishing, Rebecca Blood
An introduction to the phenomenon of Weblogs--online journals
and diaries--and the people who keep them. Instantaneous and
raw, unedited and uncensored, Weblogs are self-publishing at
its best and its worst--occasionally brilliant but often pretentious,
sometimes shocking but always fascinating. We've Got Blog is
the first book to explore this phenomenon, which has been quickly
rising from obscure Webpages to national attention in the Wall
Street Journal and USA Today. Weblogs are free, searchable journals
of opinions and links updated daily by an individual or a group
and they have become some of the hottest Websites. We've Got
Blog has pulled together some of the best writing explaining
their history, the mavericks who created them, and how they
are changing the way we use the Internet.
