Workshop > Blogging with WordPress to Win Friends, Find Fans and Persuade People to Support Your Nonprofit Organization
Learn to successfully plan, design, launch, maintain and promote a blog for your nonprofit organization on WordPress.com. Attendees will learn how to use Themes, Plugins, Widgets, and basic HTML to design a blog that matches your website and helps recruit new e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and supporters on Facebook, Twitter and social media networks. From basic to advanced, this workshop explores the WordPress interface and toolset. Attendees learn how to insert select and insert images and videos into blog posts, monitor statistics on visitors and comments, and create an editorial content system that enables you to assign, track and monitor upcoming blog posts from multiple authors. Blogging best practices in terms of post frequency, length, tone, and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) are also covered in detail. Read more 
The Edmonton Journal Seeks Blogger-in-Residence by December 19
How would you like to be a blogger-in-residence at the Edmonton Journal? Their media lab is seeking applications for a six-week residency from a blogger who would like to share his or her knowledge and observe a newsroom in action. They’re hoping to give you an interesting and instructive experience in exchange for your expertise. The time commitment is roughly 25 hours spread over the six-week period. The honorarium is $150 per week. You would be free to blog about the experience before, during and after, as well as use social media to share your impressions and experiences. You would be expected to use discretion in what is shared, as some information may be sensitive or require more context than you have. But in essence, you’re a fly on the wall, and we’re expecting you will report fairly on what you see and hear. Interested? See more about the position and fill out an application form by Dec. 19 at noon. The successful applicant will start in mid-January.
Blogging for Business With Pleasure Workshop | June 29 | Edmonton
Blogging has been part of the media landscape for over a decade. From personal journals to big corporate marketing, the medium has matured to become a central role in communications. The power of blogging has been recognized by the business community, and canny marketers view it as a powerful tool in their digital toolbox. Done well, blogging can bring a myriad of benefits to businesses of any size, writers, entrepreneurs and nonprofit community organizations. Done badly, it can cause more harm than good. Central to the success of any business blogger is a thorough understanding of the technology and the various blogging options and extensions available. See more and register for the workshop.
Marilyn
Jones is a corporate and social media advocate for individuals, small businesses
and nonprofit organizations in Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada and is the proprietor of RiverCity Productions. You can contact her
by phone at 780-695-5675 or by email at marilyn@mediamag.ca.