Saturday, November 12, 2011

Writing content . . .

This morning, I worked on my About page . . .

A week or so ago, I wrote my "back story" for a person who didn't know me.  It was fairly long, but I broke it up into sections with headings.

From my reading I've learned that most people don't really read on the internet . . . they scan.  So I turned my back story into a set of bullet points.  I figured I could write a separate blog post telling the story of each of the bullet points, then link them to the final About page.

This morning, I wrote the first four stories for a total of about 2200 words.

I have maybe 2-3 stories to go . . .

A week of webinars . . .

This week, I signed up for three online webinars; I attended two of 'em.  I took a pass on the third one, a webinar about how to become famous from a person I'd never heard of (just stop and think about that one for a moment . . .).

The first webinar was called "The Seven Hidden Laws to Build a Dynamic Website (that 'tech wizards' wish you didn't know)," run by Seth Leonard and Jeff Goins. The laws boiled down to:

  1. Purpose
  2. Identity
  3. Creativity
  4. Distribution
  5. Extension
  6. Receptivity
  7. Awareness
It was a good presentation, and followed along the lines of a free report I had downloaded from his site earlier.  I even got a question answered in the Q&A.

The second webinar was called "Designing an Incredible-Looking Blog without a Designer," run by Corbett Barr of Think Traffic.  Again, it was a good presentation that built upon his blog post, and I participated in the Q&A afterwards.

I think I'm up to doing a little tweaking . . .