Genealogy Blogging. Dave Barton

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1 Genealogy Blogging Dave Barton

2 Link to the DAR Harriott Benedict Wickham Barton

3 Harriott Wickham /13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 3

4 What is Blogging? 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 4

5 What is Blogging? Blogging is graffiti with punctuation. Elliott Gould in Contagion 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 5

6 Genealogy Blogging What is Blogging How to Blog (Wordpress) Genealogy Blogging Telling a Story Marketing Your Blog Why Blog? 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 6

7 A Blog Is... A blog (a truncation of the expression web log) is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). Wikipedia 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 7

8 Types of Blogs Personal Blogs Microblogging: i.e. Twitter Corporate or Organizational Blog By Genre By Media Type By Device 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 8

9 Blogging Platforms Blogger Tumblr Wordpress Others 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 9

10 Blogger.com Largest blogging site (number of subscribers unknown) Established 1999 Owned by Google 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 10

11 Tumblr Second largest blogging site (172 million hosted sites) Established 2006 Owned by Yahoo Questionable Content Security 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 11

12 Wordpress Third largest blogging site (75.8 million sites) Established 2005 Owned by Automattic Hosted vrs. Open-source software Wordpress.org Wordpress.com 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 12

13 Wordpress.com WYSIWYG 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 13

14 Wordpress.com WYSIWYG "What You See Is What You Get". 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 14

15 Dashboard Themes Posts Pages Links Comments Widgets Stats How your blog looks A journal in reverse Static web pages What supports and illustrates your story? Reader feedback Side column content How is your blog doing? 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 15

16 Genealogy Blogging 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 16

17 Blog About What? Good Advice: Tech Support: Gravestone Matters: Heritage Help: Shop Talk: Story Time: From Top 40 Genealogy Blogs in 2013, Family Tree Magazine 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 17

18 I Don t Have the Time For This!

19 Tell a Story Climbing the Family Tree by Ancestor Telling a story chronologically 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 19

20 Common Family History Format Organized as a Family tree by generations. 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 20

21 Telling the Story Chronologically Platt Benedict Sally Benedict Clarissa Gallup Henry Buckingham Jonas Benedict Lucy Wickham (Preston) Henry Buckingham Sally Benedict Lucy Wickham David Benedict Platt Benedict 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 21

22 Point of View (POV) The relative position from which one sees an object. Webster s Comprehensive Dictionary 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 22

23 Literary Nonfiction Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 23

24 Literary Fiction Biographies In the cold, nearly colorless light of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north. A foot or more of snow covered the landscape, the remnants of a Christmas storm that had blanketed Massachusetts from one end of the province to the other. Beneath the snow, after weeks of severe cold, the ground was frozen solid to a depth of two feet. Packed ice in the road, ruts as hard as iron, made the going hazardous, and the riders, mindful of the horses, kept at a walk. Nothing about the harsh landscape differed from other winters. Nor was there anything to distinguish the two riders, no signs of rank or title, no liveried retinue bringing up the rear. It might have been any year and they could have been anybody braving the weather for any number of reasons. Dressed as they were in heavy cloaks, their hats pulled low against the wind, they were barely distinguishable even from each other, except that the older, stouter of the two did most of the talking. He was John Adams of Braintree and he loved to talk. He was a known talker. There were some, even among his admirers, who wished he talked less. He himself wished he talked less, and he had particular regard for those, like General Washington, who somehow managed great reserve under almost any circumstance. John Adams was a lawyer and a farmer, a graduate of Harvard College, the husband of Abigail Smith Adams, the father of four children. He was forty years old and he was a revolutionary. John Adams by David McCullough 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 24

25 Sufferers Land Sufferers Land is a history of the settlement of the Firelands from the founding of the town of Norwalk, Ohio in 1817 by Platt Benedict to the final Pioneers Reunion and founding of The Firelands Historical Society in /13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 25

26 What s Next 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 26

27 Marketing Getting out the word about your blog

28 Getting Out the Word Family & Friends Other blogs Social Media Facebook LinkedIn Twitter 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 28

29 Getting Out the Word Genealogy Message Boards Rootsweb Genforum Yahoo Groups 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 29

30 Why Blog? 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 30

31 Why Blog? Tell your story. Connect with cousins Research Invitations to Contribute Genealowiki: ct/plattbenedict1775 Wickham Cemetery Project 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 31

32 Genealogy Blogging What is Blogging How to Blog (Wordpress) Genealogy Blogging Telling a Story Marketing Your Blog Why Blog? 2/13/2016 Genealogy Blogging 32