{"id":216,"date":"2011-04-20T03:02:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T03:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2011.montreal.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=216"},"modified":"2012-11-21T05:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T10:25:41","slug":"how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/session\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midnightoilwriting.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"508\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/session\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-blog\/kelley-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/files\/2011\/04\/kelley1.png\" data-orig-size=\"102,102\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"kelley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/files\/2011\/04\/kelley1.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/files\/2011\/04\/kelley1.png\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-508\" src=\"https:\/\/2011.montreal.wordcamp.org\/files\/2011\/04\/kelley1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a>Who doesn\u2019t struggle with blogging. How to start? What to write about? How to keep it going? Why do we need a blog? Just thinking about a blog can be overwhelming. Hence the land of the Internet is littered with abandoned blogs. This session will cover how to get started with blogging, what to blog about, and how to incorporate organic search engine optimization to drive web traffic and generate leads for you.<\/p>\n<p>Stop dreading blogging as if you were writing War and Peace. Instead, learn some simple tricks that will make blogging easier. And maybe even fun.<\/p>\n<p><em>This talk is for beginning bloggers and those struggling with creating content and feeding a blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/klkassa\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-blog\" target=\"_blank\">View slides on Slideshare \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>About Kelley<\/h3>\n<p>Kelley is currently the director of marketing communications for Datawatch, where she is launching their first blog, managing and implementing the company\u2019s social media strategy and creating inbound marketing content. Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kelleylynnk\" target=\"_blank\">@kelleylynnk<\/a> on Twitter. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/midnightoilwriting.com\" target=\"_blank\">Midnight Oil Writing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn\u2019t struggle with blogging. How to start? What to write about? How to keep it going? Why do we need a blog? Just thinking about a blog can be overwhelming. Hence the land of the Internet is littered with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/session\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221745,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":0,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[231],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[4633],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-216","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-users-bloggers"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qg3v-3u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"","time":""},"session_speakers":[{"id":"231","slug":"kelley-kassa","name":"Kelley Kassa","link":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker\/kelley-kassa\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221745"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/216\/revisions\/1389"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montreal.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}