Blogging: Fundamentals
Blogging Fundamentals is two weeks of bite-size blogging assignments that take you from “Blog?” to ‘Blog!’
Every day, you’ll get a new assignment to help you publish a post, customize your blog, or engage with the blogging community. Whether you’re just getting started or want to revive a dormant blog, we’ll help you build good blogging habits and blogger connections that will keep you going over the long haul. Learn more
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- Length: 14 Days
- Level: Beginner
- Topics: Getting started, publishing, customizing
Blogging: Branding and Growth
Blogging: Branding and Growth is ten days of tasks, tips, and advice on how to attract and retain a growing audience. Each day, you’ll get a new task. We’ll ask you to set some goals and analyze your brand. You’ll study your stats to plan content. We’ll help you get up to speed with social networks and optimize your blog for SEO. Whatever your blogging goals, Blogging: Branding and Growth will help you attract new followers to a blog you’re proud of. Learn more
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- Length: 10 Days
- Level: Intermediate
- Topics: Stats, editorial calendars, brand audits, social networking, SEO
Writing: Intro to Poetry
This course is the nudge you’ve been waiting for to sit down, write, and connect with other poetry lovers. If all you need is a bit of inspiration, use each of the ten daily writing prompts to publish a new poem on your blog. In case you’d like to learn more about poetry and experiment a bit, we’ll also offer a daily poetic form or device to explore (with guidance on how to use it). Learn more
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- Length: 10 Days
- Level: Beginner
- Topics: Writing, poetry, inspiration
Writing: Finding Everyday Inspiration
Writing: Finding Everyday Inspiration is a twenty-day course that warms up your writing muscles and helps you find inspiration in the places closest to you — but where you might not think to look.
This course is designed especially for bloggers interested in personal writing, essay, and nonfiction — but everyone, from fiction writers to poets to others with niche blogs, will find new ways of brainstorming post ideas. You’ll get a new writing prompt each day to help you explore new formats, pull from your own experiences, and get familiar with online resources from publishing tools to social media. Learn more
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- Length: 20 Days
- Level: Any/all (beginner through advanced)
- Topics: Writing, inspiration
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Blogging: Commenting Basics
This five-day challenge will get you out of your commenting comfort zone and help you make the connections with other bloggers that ultimately make blogging so rewarding. Each day, we’ll give you a discrete commenting task, along with our favorite tips on writing great comments and good commenting etiquette. The rest — where you comment, what you say, who you connect with — is up to you! Learn more
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