Working World » Guide to Blogging http://workingworldcareers.com Careers in International Education, Exchange, and Development Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:30:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The USG Guide to Blogging http://workingworldcareers.com/2009/04/10/the-usg-guide-to-blogging/ http://workingworldcareers.com/2009/04/10/the-usg-guide-to-blogging/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:46:05 +0000 Mark Overmann https://digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/blogs/workingworld/?p=683 Via Chris Blattman, the U.S. Government presents Your Guide to Managing…Blogs. I’m certainly prone to take things like this tongue-in-cheek, as Blattman does, but actually, it’s a fairly useful, if basic, guide to blogging. A particularly interesting point in light of yesterday’s discussion on the “dangers” of social networking:

When blogging, remember that the Web has a long memory. Do not publish any material on impulse. Ask these questions:

  • Who else might read it?
  • Supposing a prospective partner, stakeholder, or customer read it, what would they think?
  • Would you be willing to have it on the front page of the newspaper?
  • In what other ways might it be interpreted?

Although my favorite pointer:

Choose words that have as few syllables as possible.

Interweb users aren’t reading, we’re scanning. Keep it dumb, people.

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