Guide to Good Blogging

This is a presentation by our colleague, Andrea Ressell from UCT's Centre for Educational Technology, on 10 steps to better blogging.


1. On your blog, provide a biography - your readers want to know who you are.
2. Write descriptive titles to your postings.
3. When you link to something, name that link meaningfully.
4. Provide context and structure to your blog.
5. Emphasise key postings.
6. Use permalinks.
7. Publish regularly.
8. Who is your audience?
9. Tighten your topics -- if you want to write about libraries and gardening, then create two separate blogs
10. Protect against spam.