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Chapter 7. Crafting Messages for Electronic Media

Video: RSS in Plain English

Video: RSS in Plain EnglishWe made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people and if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes.

Introduction to Blogging

This 21-slide program covers (1) what is a blog?, (2) birth of blogs, (3) growth of blogs. (4) advantages of blogs, (5) why you should care about blogs, (6) finding and searching blogs, (7) how to get my own blog, (8) place to get your blog, (9) how to promote your blog, (10) what is an aggregator?, (11) why an aggregator?, (12) Bloglines, (13) look for your interests, (14) subscribe to feeds, (15) listing of your subscribed feed, (16) subscribe through RSS feed, and (17) read through feed content.

E-Mail Netiquette, Spam, and Phishing

This 10-slide presentation covers important points about netiquette, spam, and phishing.

Creative Business Uses of Twitter

Here are creative business uses of Twitter.

How RSS Rocks Your (Online) World!

This 43-slide illustrated presentation discusses (1) the seven online services you must have, (2) RSS and blogs, (3) Blogs vs. websites, (4) Secrets to getting good SEO, (5) Quick primer on RSS, (6) Quick primer on blogs, and (7) Skype and social network sites.

Social Media Boot Camp

In this 15-slide, highly illustrated program, see how social media fits together, who is using social media, what it's being used for, what not to do with social media, and using social media in the real world (including four critical questions about its use).

Introduction to RSS as an Information Management Tool

This 37-slide illustrated presentation covers three major areas: (1) What is RSS?, (2) How do you use it?, and (3) How do you manage information with RSS?

Social Media Is . . .

This 38-slide, highly illustrated program will give you a better understanding of what is meant by "social media."

Business Use of Text Messaging

Only a decade ago SMS text messaging was in its infancy and for a long time was considered a toy for teenagers, but now it is being used for a bewildering array of things with many businesses coming to depend on it as a flexible and mobile communications.

Blogs: The Hot New Technology for Communication and Information

This 40-slide presentation covers (1) difference between blogs and websites, (2) the blogosphere, (3) blog features, (4) establishing a blogging policy, (5) blogs for professionals, (6) finding blogs, (7) reading blogs, (8) RSS, (9) RSS readers, (10) Bloglines, (11) RSS feeds other than blogs, (12) creating a blog, (13) external communication, (14) internal communication, (15) cost = time, (16) engaging the reader, (17) blog software comparison, (18) blog software and hosting, (19) promoting your blog,