Blogging For Business

Blogging has become an essential part of the social interaction with others online, to help a business engage with its online customers or audience from a personal, opinion and review.

This Blogging for Business short online course focuses on those who want to learn more about how to create and write blogs in a professional capacity. Writing a blog for a business is a specialist skill and requires a lot of thought to be put into it before publishing to a large customer based audience. It’s vital that a business blog has the correct tone for its audience, it can be all too easy to alienate through bad social etiquette which could spell PR disaster for a business.

This course covers all the essentials areas you need to know before getting started with your blog. The three main areas you’ll look at are:
Finding out about blogs: which include the different types of blog, typical elements of a blog site and blog post, interesting blogs, blogs to follow, commenting and sharing on blogs, how you could use a blog, what to post and when.

Designing a blog site: which includes the different ways to present a blog, adverts, colours and contrasts, images, accessibility issues and will also look at the different blogging software options.

Maintaining the blog site: which will look at creating a plan, identifying good post content, writing the content, registering with search engines, distributing posts, sharing and marketing posts and measuring impact.

Whilst you have access to the online learning platform, you will also be able to view additional tutorial sessions which will help you look at WordPress, Blogger or Tumblr blog sites so that you can gain extra tips and guidance on creating your blog site.