Thursday, April 26, 2012

Blog PR

Branding and Marketing exercise:


Write a single sentence describing how you want people to know you online. Begin with I am a…
Write a short list that describes who you want to reach on the web. List 3-4 kinds of people.
Write a short list that describes what you would like to learn about or learn from other people on the web. List 3 things you would like to learn. 

These will help you define the elements of your online brand


Your name
Your photo (or logo)
Bio/Description
Tweetable pitch including short keyword title (less than 140 characters)
Should be featured in ALL of your online and social media accounts
Keep an online file with these elements handy so you can use them again and again
ALSO – The types of content that you share (photos, videos, podcasts, article links, quotes, etc)
 
 In Addition, you will need to reach friends of friends.


Here's how all this PR work translates to homework:


-Your pitch and bio must be somewhere on the home page of your blog.
- Create your custom favicon.  convert at icoconverter.com before loading into blogger
- double check that your blog is current and has links to any "borrowed" content
- create original content (video or stills) and host it on a media sharing account (like flickr, instagram, youtube, vimeo, or picasa, ). Then link that to your blog.

Our presentation on Blogging your way to Self Promotion

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