100 Blog topics

Using this list of 100 blog topics, pick two to write Blog Entry #5 and #6. You should have six blog entries on your blog for grading purposes this marking period. Some of these topics can be used for podcasting which we will begin next week.

Here is the link to Chris Brogan's blog where this list of 100 topics originates:
chrisbrogan.com/100-blog-topics-i-hope-you-write/

Please read his article. Then consider the list which I have copied for you here for your convenience. Many of the topics are adult-orientated, but I think you can relate to several of these topics and ideas: #1, #4, #10, #12, #23, #25, etc.

100 Blog Topics I Hope YOU Write
Chris Brogan

September 19, 2007 ·




Here’s 100 Blog/Podcast Topics I Hope YOU Write:

1 How I Use Facebook
2 Ways I Embrace My Audience
3 Should My Town Use Social Media?
4 A Community I Love
5 Technology That Empowers Me
6 How Flickr Did it Right
7 How Best to Comment on a Corporate Blog
8 Ways to Save a Bad Time at a Conference
9 How I Find Blogging Ideas
10 Somebody Has to Say It
11 My Children Will Do it Differently
12 How Schools Could Use Social Media
13 The Best Parts of Marketing
14 Presentation Skills for a New Conversation
15 How I Find Time to Make Media
16 Empower Your Best Customers
17 After the Event- Carrying the Conversation Forward
18 Just Jump Into Podcasting- Heres How
19 My Community and How You Can Engage It
20 Twitter Jaiku Pownce Facebook- And Then What
21 Making a Miniseries
22 If I Were an Advertiser Today
23 My Mother is On Facebook
24 Does a Big Brand Need You
25 Books I Want to Write
26 Serving the Deep Niches- How I Do It
27 How Women Use Social Media
28 A Hard Look at My Media Habits
29 If I Were a Television Producer
30 Social Media Marketing vs Traditional Marketing
31 Elements of a Marketing Campaign
32 Social Media Campaigns are NOT Traditional Campaigns
33 Idea Making and How I Make Something
34 What I Spend Money On
35 Do Rock Stars Need Social Media Strategies
36 How I Use My Website
37 Book Shopping- Buy These Books
38 MTV Changed the World in the 80s- Here is What Comes Next
39 How I Process Blogs and What I Do With All That Info
40 Ten Guilty Pleasures
41 The Internet Application I Havent Seen
42 If I Worked for a Venture Capital Firm
43 My Day Job Versus My Passion
44 The Difference Between Fark and Truemors
45 Fixing Conferences
46 Making Marketplaces for Media Makers
47 When I Feel Frustrated
48 Branding Strategies I Use
49 Your Ideas And My Ideas- How We Play Together
50 Friends I Cant Wait to Meet


51 The Art of Chaos
52 Telling My Boss About Social Media
53 Could I Quit My Day Job
54 When to Cut Back on Web Habits
55 Breaking Down My Favorite Blog
56 Explaining Social Media to Your Chamber of Commerce
57 Non-Internet Equivalents to Internet Tools I Use
58 Considering Media for the Rest of the Globe
59 Twitter is Too Simple- Twitter is Just Right
60 The Future of Podcasting
61 Video Made Simple
62 Facebook Applications I Love
63 You Are Here
64 Blogging Tactics- How to Keep it Fresh
65 I Want to Brag A Minute
66 Who Says What About Your Brand
67 Tools for Blogging
68 Wordpress Plugins I Use And Why
69 Media Topics That Need More Coverage
70 Comments versus Blog Posts
71 How I Drive Traffic to My Site
72 News- Is it Useful and How I Might Fix It
73 Which TV Network Gets Videoblogging and PodCasting
74 Franchising My Media
75 Handling Critics
76 My Audio Tricks
77 Ning Sites I Like and Why
78 Controlling My Brand
79 Sharing and Contributing
80 How Twitter Improved My Blog
81 Email After Twitter
82 Facebook Video Improved My Social Network
83 Letting Go
84 Downtime- What I Do Offline to Recharge
85 How I Went From Very Shy to Less Shy
86 The RIGHT Number to Track for Podcasting
87 PodCamp Has to Change
88 Shaking Things Up
89 Joining A Network- Things to Consider
90 Newspapers and How I Would Change Them
91 Interview With a Veteran
92 The Countries of My Social Media World
93 Giving it Away
94 Consulting Strategies for Social Media Experts
95 Turning Media into a Business Card
96 Podcasting on a Budget
97 For Every Excuse a New Strategy
98 Just When I Think I Am Done
99 Buying Gear- My Shopping Tips for Podcasters
100 When is Free Better- When Not

Columns--Edit and post the best onto the SOTACRAT page

Today we will work in groups to edit our columns and any other articles that might be appropriate for the Sotacrat & Chronicle.

When an article receives approval from Ms. Gamzon, upload it to the Sotacrat and Chronicle webpage.

Password: sotacrat1

Blogs Entry #4/Columns

This week we began to write feature style "columns" in which you can express your opinions on topics that are political, cultural, or personal. Humor, wit, and/or passion are encouraged.

Today finish your column article and we will share them 8th period.

Also, continue to work on your personal blog--add design elements, new posts, etc.
BE SURE TO VISIT AND COMMENT ON OTHER BLOGS.

You should have 4 BLOG ENTRIES: 3 were assigned topics
Blog ENTRY #$--topic of your choice

Blog Question of the Day #3

Tom Tancredo this weekend was the keynote speaker at the Tea Party convention. He suggested that we should reinstate literacy for voters, especially for voters who "cannot spell the word vote or say it in English" and who elected "Barack Hussein Obama." Do you believe that Tancredo seriously wanted to return to the voter literacy
tests that many states in the South used to discriminate against black voters and prevent them from voting. Should there be literacy tests for the right to vote in America? Or does democracy mean "one person, one vote"?

Do research online about this incident. Put in the keywords that will get you information for an "informed" blog entry.

THEN:

Take this Alabama State Literacy test. Would you be able to vote?

kpearson.project.tcnj.edu/interactive/imm_files/test.html

Blog Question of the Day

continue work on your blog.

Here is the blog question of the day:

In 2001 The American Scholar published an excerpt from a talk given by English author Margaret Drabble. In the talk, Drabble claimed that "Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts." Using evidence from your reading, history, observation, personal experience, politics, etc., respond to this claim in your blog.


Read these blogs:
chrisguillebeau.com

lhammack.blogspot.com/2009/10/conformity.html

www.usthemblog.com/2008/03/whats-so-bad-ab.html

Blog Question of the Day--Using the R-Word

Please read the following articles and blog entries. Then respond to your readings on your own blog. These articles are about White House aide Rahm Emmanuel using the R-word (retard).

Check out the news article on aol.com

Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic
aandrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/palin-emanuel-pot-kettle.html

Jane Hamscher, FireDogLake

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/02/03/when-is-rahm-going-to-apologize-to-moveon/

PLEASE BE SURE YOUR BLOG IS CONNECTED TO THIS BLOG--MAKE SURE YOU ARE A FOLLOWER OF THIS BLOG

Blogging/Finish Magazine articles

Blogging:

This marking period you will be working on new media--including blogging and podcasting.

If you already have a personal blog, that's great. Be sure that you are a follower of this page and that we can access your blog. Or create a new one just for this project.

If you do not have a blog, you will be creating one.

Here is a link to find out how to do this.


Your blogs should be focused on culture, news, or the world through a creative writer's eyes. I will be giving you specific topics to comment on through this unit. What I do not want you to do is use this opportunity to publish to the world merely personal comments that have no relevance to a larger audience--this is not myspace or Facebook. This is an aspect of new media---a personal kind of JOURNALISM.