Fanny's Guide to Writing a Good Blog

Presentation

Make sure the presentation of the blog is attractive. This is to encourage people to read it – and, more importantly – to comment.

Presentation can be improved by the overall impact of the design. This requires careful choice of colours, plus the use of blog lists, link lists and labels.

Example – 1

Colour co-ordination poor. No archive. No labels. Post consists entirely of a photo.

Example – 2

Clear and easy to read. Good use of space.

The post itself should also be attractive to the eye. This can be achieved through the careful use of colour, videos, cartoons, photographs etc. Nothing is more boring than just a load of text!

Example:

Some attempt can be made to personalise the blog.

And another…

The post itself should be spell-checked and grammar-checked.

Sentences such as:

“Dummy copies of a thinner Observer, has been mad, and all the «extra» stuff, like music, sport etc. are at risk.”

are just careless. Mad?

One of the purposes of blog-writing is to improve your English. Thus posts should always also be checked with Peter. This type of post:

“In relation to how its like to have an internet site, where you even could make some money on having. It will be more more revenue/profit and less expenditure,

On the other hand, removing this employment, which would be a shame especially in this period we are now with financial crisis, where we need to build the world again and go all the work. “

Should, later, be corrected.

It is not enough to copy and paste. The purpose is to interact with what you read and make the resulting post your own words, your own comments. Equally we are to learn from other posts, so technical terms should be explained.

Example:

“Football

The financial crisis has also(of cours) had influenced the football market and the clubs... The banks won't give overdraft to the footballclubs and the sponsors are going out, the tickets have been fallin with 5% in 60% of the UK footballclubs. Therefore all the income resourses have been reduced, and the market is unstable.“

This is full of spelling mistakes!

Here is how it could have been expended:

Football

The financial crisis has also(of cours) had influenced the football market and the clubs...

Explain how?

What is the financial crisis?

The banks won't give overdraft to the footballclubs and the sponsors are going out, the tickets have been fallin with 5% in 60% of the UK footballclubs.

So, giving examples, what have football clubs done?

Therefore all the income resourses have been reduced, and the market is unstable.

What is a market? What are the risks of the market being unstable?

Other links can be added:

And mind maps summarising key areas of Economics can be displayed:

Ideally, a podcast will be made:

And videos etc.

Thus the blog, if treated sensibly, will be a tool for learning.

The other questions is ‘What should I write about?’

Obviously this blog is for your Economics and/or Business Studies. But you could write about other subjects you study.

You could also write about your life, personal things, football, music – anything. The important thing is at the very minimum to do your homework and write about Economics/Business Studies. Also you MUST have labels so everything is neatly categorised.

Also you must comment on other blogs – this helps you develop evaluation skills.

You can always get ideas from other blogs, click here

Maybe make money from your blog:

Also through Blogger Buzz and Blogs of Note learn about different designs etc.

Lots of love <3