{"id":348,"date":"2009-10-20T00:12:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T04:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/20\/blogging-workshop-books\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T00:17:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T04:17:42","slug":"blogging-workshop-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/20\/blogging-workshop-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Read This: The Books Behind My Blogging Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"say-everything-cover.jpeg\"I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity earlier this month to teach a two-day workshop on blogging for NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies<\/a>, and there were several books that were especially helpful as I gathered my thoughts about what I was going to say to students during those two sessions. Scott Rosenberg’s recently published Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters<\/i><\/a> was a great resource for discussing the blogosphere’s roots and identifying the stand-out characteristics of the first great blogs, while Bob Walsh’s Clear Blogging<\/a> provided helpful ideas about effective writing techniques, as did Darren Rowse’s Problogger<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reading Seth Godin<\/a> has transformed the way I think about not just marketing but also self-presentation, and Purple Cow<\/i><\/a> has been an especially meaningful book for me in that sense, but I’d also highly recommend his most recent book, Tribes<\/i><\/a>. And it was Seth that led me to Hugh MacLeod, who just published his first book, Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity<\/i><\/a>, which I rank right up there with Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art<\/i><\/a> and Gail Sher’s One Continuous Mistake<\/i><\/a> when it comes to inspiration for creative writers.<\/p>\n

I also learned a lot about online writing from The Twitter Book<\/i><\/a>, where Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein lay out some basic principles that, again, helped me get a better grasp on self-presentation and finding my online voice. There’s solid info in there whether you’re blogging for a business or just for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity earlier this month to teach a two-day workshop on blogging for NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and there were several books that were especially helpful as I gathered my thoughts about what I was going to say to students during those two sessions. Scott […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}