Help for WordPress Newbie Bloggers

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Maintaining a blog is one of the major ways to promote yourself and your writing.  The free services offered by Blogger and WordPress.com make it  simple.  Still, there’s a lot you can do to make a free WordPress blog work much harder for you.  Yet many find that task daunting.  Jason Annas aims to guide you by the hand with his intriguing broad-ranging e-book and tutorial video package WordPress Foundations — at a very reasonable price.

I use WordPress myself, though with a slight difference I’ll explain below.  I cannot count the days, weeks, months even I’ve spent learning just how WordPress really works and how to bend it to my purposes.  I have three guidebooks on WordPress that I turn to continually.  but it’s still been a task.  I wish this package had been available when I started out.

The new e-book and video package WordPress Foundations is very thorough, and the videos illustrate the steps with screenshots that walk you through the procedures one-by-one.  The package costs only $50.00, a little more than double the price of one of the paperback guides, but this package includes the invaluable videos.

Well, I have to admit that I haven’t myself seen the videos or even read the book.  But I’m convinced that they are top-notch just by the promotional copy that Jason has put up on the web.  It’s worth a look, especially if you are thinking about setting up a blog.

I myself use WordPress in its self-hosted version.  A bit more complex and certainly more costly than the free WordPress service, but I prefer it.  I have my very own domain name — and the system is even more powerful.  Jason addresses this version at the end of his e-book.  All of the steps he’s described also relate to the self-hosted version.

BONUS NOTES ABOUT TWITTER:

By the way, I learned about this package via Twitter, an invaluable source of information, once you begin to get it under your control.  I’m beginning to understand that users can approach Twitter from different directions, depending on one’s objective.

I principally use Twitter to gather information for this blog.  The trick is in choosing knowledgable people to follow.  I’m not after one million followers myself, at least not right now.  What I want is a rather limited range of authorities, a number small and targetted enough that that I myself can follow them fairly easily.

Another use of Twitter of course is to build one’s own audience of followers.  That’s a different ball game.  Earlier this month, the matter of collecting followers became front page news when Oprah and CNN appealed for followers with highly-promoted  on-air announcements.

Here’s an observation I’ve not seen before:  maybe one should consider having TWO TWITTER IDENTITIES, one via which one collects information, the other through which one builds a following and promotes something, such as a cause — or a series of books.

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