frontier market scouts blogging presentation
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&Who Are YouWhat Are You Doing?
How to start and maintain an interesting blog
Two Questions
• What to write about? • How to keep a blog?
Finding Your Storyline• Why are you doing FMS?• What do you like?
– Your dog– Nature – Architecture
• What are you influenced by?– Religion– Environment– Family
• What’s a theme in your life?– Bad luck– Art– Food
Ev’s Storyline
• Why are you doing Peace Corps?– Immerse in a new culture
• What is one other interest of yours?– Personal Development
• What is one thing you’re influenced by?– Family
• What’s a theme in your life?– Travel
Incorporating Your Storyline
• Immerse in a new culture– My First Time… Making Armenian Lavash
• Personal Development– Goals for 2013
• Family– I–Miss America
• Travel– Lisboa by Myself
Finding a Weekly Story• Answer Why
– http://travelingev.com/2013/07/why-did-you-join-peace-corps/
• Cultural Adjusting– http://travelingev.com/2011
/06/first-armenia/
• Where I live– http://travelingev.com/2012
/07/apartment-tour/
• Daily Routine– http://travelingev.com/2011
/07/daily-routine/
• Compare/contrast– http://travelingev.com/2013
/01/wheres-all-the-food/
• Small daily chore– http://travelingev.com/2012/09
/hammerfor/
• People– http://travelingev.com/2012/07
/diabetes/
• Picture-heavy post– http://travelingev.com/2011/08
/recipes-armenia/• Ask readers for suggestions
– http://travelingev.com/2012/04/more-later/
• Holiday– http://travelingev.com/2013/04
/easter-eat-more/• Reflection
– http://travelingev.com/2012/04/changing/
How to Write for the Web
• Interesting heading• Compelling intro• Shorter sentences and paragraphs• Pictures or video• Bullet points• Bold text• Headings
From the Beginning
• Post consistently• Encourage comments• Utilize social media• Plan for the future– Represent yourself in a good light– Submit guest posts– Collect email addresses
How This Will Benefit You Later
• Professional portfolio• Personal branding• Personal development• Online reputation
Housekeeping
• Professional representation – Yourself, the Monterey Institute, your organization
• Permission from your organization – Privacy concerns, Social media policies
• You may be featured on the Monterey Institute or Frontier Market Scouts websites
• Here’s the Monterey Institute media release form for permission to use multimedia content (audio, video, and photos) from your interviewee.
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