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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,

The inside scoop from educators, activists and social media gurus at the East Bay’s first Beast Bloggers Bar Camp.
Photos: Wanda Hennig

This list of 40 facts, tips, key points and “how to” suggestions come from blogging panels and conversations at the first East Bay Beast Bloggers Bar Camp held at Tech Liminal in Oakland. (Read more on the event here.) Some comments are attributed. Others came from general discussion. All are from Bar Camp participants. (See Part One of this story.)
About Blogging

Decide what are you trying to say? What do …

On a Saturday morning in late July, just after a flock of white pelicans arrived for an extended stay at Lake Merritt, a group of activists, bloggers, would-be bloggers, vloggers, Twitter gurus, print journalists transitioning to the web in the age of social media, high-tech nerds, and others, gathered at Tech Liminal in Oakland for the East Bay’s first Beast Bloggers Bar Camp.

People at the event, hosted by journalism micro-funding project Spot.Us, Oakland technical hotspot and salon Tech Liminal and Oakland’s must-read independent politics and development blog, A Better Oakland had been advised to arrive:
With coffee mug and a laptop (or notebook and pen);
prepared to talk blogging