So here it is – my second guide to writing for the web.
Writing for Bloggers – A Quick Guide on Style, Substance and Strategy
This guide focuses on blogging, and things bloggers can do to improve their writing. It’s a very short guide, intended to cover the basics and remove obstacles in the paths of new bloggers.
If you would like the white label version to give your clients, email me and I’ll send you a copy. Please distribute freely – I want to encourage people to blog.
Thanks to the following for their input: (who responded to my request for readers on Twitter)
- Emma Nicol of Door 22 Creative (a graphic design agency) who has done an amazing job designing the document
- Donald Strachan
- Anca Foster
- Jane Dallaway
- Catherine Pope
- Amy Harrison
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Pingback by Victorian Geek » Blog Archive » Blogito Ergo Sum — January 5, 2009 @ 8:46 pm
Hi Leif, fabulous guide to blog writing, simple and effective. Love the entry under ‘Why should I bother?’ that reads ‘Because your bosss tells you to’..! If only my boss did!
Question: any reason this isn’t up as an HTML page too? Just interested, really.
Cheers, Justine
Comment by Justine — January 6, 2009 @ 11:14 am
Hi Justine – thanks for stopping by. Glad you enjoyed the guide. As for a web page version of the guide –
I’m too technically inept! Or technically-challenged if you prefer – basically I don’t know how… Do you know how to do that?Ha ha – of course, I could just turn it into a blog post! Sorry, clearly left my brain somewhere in a field in Hampshire.Comment by Leif Kendall — January 6, 2009 @ 11:25 am
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