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Blogging Workshop at 大象传媒 Manchester

• Robin Hamman
• 30 Nov 06, 02:46 PM

The first 大象传媒 Manchester Blogging Workshop will take place at 大象传媒 Manchester at 6pm on Thursday the 18th of January, 2007. This free two hour workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about blogging and/or creating and publishing content online.

The idea behind the 大象传媒 Manchester Blog has always been to use this as an experiment to see how we might be able to help people create and share content online. That is, we're hoping to use this project to help us find the good Manchester based content that's already online, initiate a conversation with the people creating it and see what we can do to help highlight that content by linking to it or getting that content on air.

So far we've had , , and on 大象传媒 Radio Manchester. Geoff and Kate also appeared, along with , in the piece about the Manchester Blog Awards that I did for 大象传媒 Radio 5 Live's Pods and Blogs

Having demonstrated to the bosses that there is compelling content (not that the were in any doubt in the first place - thankfully for us they really do get this!), it's time for us to move to phase two of the project: a workshop for Manchester based bloggers and would be bloggers.

Topics covered will include:

• finding the right publishing platform - from to , to , to there's a place that's right for you to publish your content online (and often it's free)
• tips on getting started - naming your site or page, getting noticed, getting listed by directories and search sites
• syndicating and sharing your content more widely - making it easier to find new audiences and for them to keep track of you using , email updates, email lists, (for podcasts), and social bookmarking services like
• techniques for finding and joining in "the conversation" - using RSS, , and other tools to find and track the buzz you generate
• keeping it going - how to make you efforts financially sustainable with , and other revenue sharing programmes
• We'll also introduce the 大象传媒's editorial guidelines, and provide a quick legal briefing covering libel and other issues, because we want to help you keep out of trouble and to understand what we can, and can't, link to from the 大象传媒 Manchester Blog

You don't have to have a blog to attend and we think that both those completely new to creating and publishing content online, as well as those who find it old hat, could benefit from at least some of the advice and discussions we're planning.

The workshop will be run by 大象传媒 Radio Manchester's Richard Fair who, in addition to covering blogs in his new radio show and posting here, has had a number of blogs for years and by Robin Hamman (me!) who heads up the 大象传媒's Blog Network, runs workshops for people authoring or producing 大象传媒 blogs, reports for 5 Live's Pods and Blogs, and whose has recently been listed as one of the top .02% of blogs globally by blog tracking service technorati. We're also hoping to have a number of guest contributors - TBC.

Space is limited so if you'd like to come along, leave us a comment below (and ensure that you put your email in the form field provided for you to do so) and/or drop us an email at manchester.blog(at)bbc.co.uk