Feb 23 - The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

Workshop:
Twitter demo - learn how to tweet
Watch: Egypt: Seeds of Change on People & Power (Al Jazeera)
DUE today:
Now that you've planted your blog, grow it:

  • start "following" related blogs and "track" some tags
  • comment on at least 2 other blogs
  • weeding: install Disqus - try to respond to comments in a timely manner, watch out for spam
  • continue to write at least 1 post per week + experiment with promotion: post a comments on other blogs about your content, email your blog to friends and family, ask for other people to give you a boost
  • create a blog roll
  • experiment with another form of media: add images, audio or video

Readings: