‘Blogging’ Videos

  • How to turn your WordPress blog into a book

    WordCamp Vancouver 2023Speaker: Ann Beaudet

    October 13, 2023 — Learn how to repurpose blog content into a book from the firsthand experience of this speaker.

  • Starting your WordPress blog – the first 6 months

    WordCamp Asia 2023Speaker: Shilpa Shah

    September 30, 2023 — There are tons of helpful guides out there to help you get your WordPress website live. What you do after that though is entirely up to you. The first 6 months can be both exhilarating and frustrating in equal parts. This talk is about how to plan and execute during those critical early days, when most bloggers tend to give up even before they’ve really started.

  • The ultimate newsroom QA: how to manage your editorial workflow like a boss

    WordCamp Asia 2023Speaker: Francesca Marano

    September 7, 2023 — In 2013, this speaker launched a blog for female creative entrepreneurs. It became an overnight success in its niche in Italy. Nine years later, the blog is still going strong. It grew from a handful of contributors to a newsroom of over one hundred authors.

    In December 2017, a new team was able to take over thanks to the smooth editorial processes.

    This talk shares the challenges encountered in creating a workflow for the authors.

    Learn practical solutions that different teams can use to coordinate their efforts. Get tips for managing user permissions, assigning editing and curation, and publishing.

  • Aida Correa-Jackson: So, You’re Not a Writer- Blogging Even If You Think You Can’t Write 2.0

    WordCamp Buffalo 2023Speaker: Aida Correa-Jackson

    May 22, 2023 — Have you always wanted to start a blog, but think you’re a terrible writer? Let me show you ways that you can not only start a blog, but you can also do it without having masterful writing skills, creating the content yourself, or even having to write at all!
    In this talk, you will learn proven strategies used by bloggers and social media influencers for years! You will learn how to hone in on your ideas, different styles of blogging, microblogging, outsourcing, AI, and more!

  • Ideas for getting more views on your blog

    Speaker: Benjamin Evans

    November 3, 2022 — You’ve spent a lot of time making your new WordPress blog, and now it’s time to make it public to the world! But you stop and wonder… “How exactly do people find my blog? What can I do so that more people will come and see what I blog about?”

    In this online workshop, we’ll be taking a look at some ideas you can take home and try in order to get more views to your blog. Ideas include…

    * Sharing your blog in creative ways
    * Using links to engage your audience
    * Properly using WordPress categories and tags on posts
    * Using keywords to highlight your content in search results

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  • Basic blogging for beginners

    WordCamp Jinja 2022Speaker: Akol Sharon Norah

    October 7, 2022 — This talk offers beginner tips and advice to aspiring bloggers. Topics include how to start a blog, choosing a niche, hosting, theme selection, creating posts, and tips for creating good content.

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  • Mani Karthik: What Ten Years Of Blogging Taught Me

    WordPress Meetup KochiSpeaker: Mani Karthik

    November 26, 2020 — In his talk, he’ll be covering his blogging experience which roots more than 10 years of his experience, to help young, and upcoming bloggers to contribute, and be a successful blogger. Mani will be sharing his observation on how blogging helped him with making a career, and how it could be evolved more from a modest blog to a helpful resource for many.

  • Cousett Hoover: Mompreneur Powered By WordPress and Passive Profit

    WordCamp Austin 2020Speaker: Cousett Hoover

    November 17, 2020 — This talk explains many of the opportunities for WordPress entrepreneurs to have a profitable income stream. From ads to courses, membership, e-Commerce, and other digital products. WordPress can do it all.

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  • George Mount: Blogging Effectively About Coding

    WordCamp Denver 2020Speaker: George Mount

    July 8, 2020 — The WordPress community thrives when we share our technical expertise with each other. But, we’ve likely all met someone who is technically brilliant but struggles as a teacher.
    In this talk, I will share my tips and tricks for developing effective technical instruction from over six years of blogging and online content creation. While my background is in data analytics, users in web development, technical writing and other fields will benefit from a discussion of blogging effectively about tech (particularly code).
    Not only will attendees have a path forward for developing solid technical blog posts, I will lay out the win-win that this skill will have on their careers and the community as a whole.

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  • Florence Kyohangirwe: Blogging For Social Impact or Change In Millennial Time

    WordCamp Kampala 2019Speaker: Florence Kyohangirwe

    March 3, 2020 — This topic would explore how millennials are using blogging as a tool to;

    Speak on topics that were previously not talked about, for example, periods, gender equality, GBV, depression, LGBTQ+ etc
    The change/impact that these topics have to the readers.
    How we can tell stories that impact change.