Blogging for Business or Pleasure

Wednesday, August 17

Description: Whether you’re an entrepreneur, business owner, independent contractor, working artist, photographer, or freelancer writer, a blog can enliven your website, build connections with potential clients, and help to strengthen your brand. Learn how to use your blog to get noticed, become a part of a professional community, and make a name for yourself as an expert in your field.

In this class, we’ll cover everything from the basics of constructing a basic blog site and building an audience to more advanced levels of social networking and brand building. Using examples from some of the internet’s most prominent bloggers, we’ll examine what it takes to make a great blog. In-class exercises will help you get started on the path to blogging success.

Writer’s Roadmap
This is an excellent course for writers of every level and in every genre who are interested in blogging or creating an online platform for their writing.

About the Instructor: Kate Harding is co-author of Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body and founder of the internet’s most popular body acceptance blog, Shapely Prose. As a body image expert, she’s been interviewed by CNN, Reuters and The New York Times, among others, and is in demand as a speaker for college audiences.

Kate has contributed to numerous websites, including Salon, Jezebel and The Guardian, and published essays in the anthologies Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2009), and Feed Me: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight and Body Image.

A graduate of the University of Toronto and the MFA in writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, she lives in Chicago with her husband and their devil puppy, Murray.