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Ten tips to publishing online (versus writing for a print publication).
My first journalism job was on The Daily News in Durban, South Africa and — wait for it — we used typewriters.
We’d layer four short sheets of paper — long enough to type maybe three paragraphs, at a pinch — separated by three sheets of carbon paper, and roll them into the machine. God alone knows what the parts of the typewriter were called and by my second newspaper job (on the Sunday Tribune, also in Durban), basic computers were …

Vicki Gutgesell loves animals and she loves to travel. She goes to see wildlife, birdlife and marine life au natural wherever she can. On a recent trip she went to cuddle cheetah cubs. Sweet, yes. But it was also about species survival.
Story Wanda Hennig
Photos Vicki Gutgesell

Vicki Gutgesell was doing a volunteer shift at the Oakland Zoo in California when a notice pinned to the info board caught her attention. On it she read that someone near Cape Town, South Africa, was looking for volunteers to help hand-raise cheetah cubs. …

From Beast Bloggers Camp, Tech Liminal, Oakland, October 24, 2009

Zennie (Zennie62) Abraham presents at Tech Liminal

Six-step process to shooting your own video — from Nava Bromberger (presenting with Zennie62 Abraham)

Choose topic. An event. Opinion. You might have an idea. Confirm its hot by going to yahoo top searches, or google. Camera plus opinion and do it.
Research keywords. Depending on what words you choose, your post will be found more often. See what variations of the keywords are hot to tag your posts.
Create content using video. A case study …

From Beast Bloggers Camp, Tech Liminal, Oakland, October 24, 2009

Search Engine Optimization Best Practices: Scot Hacker, UC Berkeley

General:

Eighty percent of users click on one of the first three results that come up.
SEO is the process of getting your site to appear up at the top in searches.
It’s important to separate the good ideas and best practices from the snake oil. There are a lot of cons going on.
Good content is key.
Quality (of content and material) is more important than quantity (bombardment) for SEO.
Google has 200 ingredients in …

By Wanda Hennig
A veteran print journalist and editor — turned online writer, blogger and social media buff — embarks on a real-life travel writing-cum-social media project and invites you along for the ride. Tips, hints, pitfalls to avoid, good practices to aspire to, facts, fallacies and all the write stuff.

“Dear Wanda
 — Love is in the air at Air New Zealand as the airline prepares for the world’s first Matchmaking Flight. On October 13, an estimated 100 singles will journey from Los Angeles to Auckland, each with the hope of finding a match in air,