Blogging 101
That’s John Carman, the instructor of my Osher class, Blogging 101. I first met him at an event called Bootcamp Pgh* back in April of last year, downtown at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. John happened to be teaching a class there on–you guessed it–blogging fundamentals, for newbies like me.
Bottom line–sometime afterward, he agreed to teach the blogging course. Anyway, our homework assignment for Wednesday’s class is to post an entry to an instructional blog he created, aptly titled Blogging 101.
Here’s what I wrote:
I like to think there’s a certain synergy in writing the same thing in two different blogs. Others might disagree strongly, citing self aggrandizement or the doubly boring nature of the topic. Whatever.
len z
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I think it’s incredible what you’re doing at Osher with blogging courses! I’ve tried to interest the powers that be here in SLC and the ones who can choose not to do anything because they don’t know much about blogging. I wish we had a teacher to help me learn twice or thrice as fast what I’m having to teach myself as need arises. Your blog is coming along nicely! Keep it up!
hi alice,
seems to me that as an autodidact you’ve done an impressive job of creating and running your blog. thanks for your words of encouragement. i get the feeling ruthe and i have been somewhat ahead of the curve, but i’m hopeful we’ll have a lot more company as more and more technologically savvy boomer types retire.
con su permiso i’d like to add wintersong to the blogging 101 blogroll. also, could you tell me about where in pgh you lived back in the day? was hubby a grad student? somehow the apt building looks familiar.
len z
Not such an impressive job I think. Took me this long (weeks!) to locate this comment! And I haven’t been able to convince anyone in Osher U of Utah that it’s a worthwhile activity.
I’d be happy to be added to the blogging 101 blogroll. I looked through the blogging 101 on the sidebar for a minute or two. Looks like there are things to be learned there.
I lived in Shadyside, about a block or so from Shady Avenue. (That main drag; i think it’s shady.) Hubby lived on Shadyside next door to a Marionette theatre in what was in the 60’s a shabbier, poorer side of the neighborhood. He worked at Westinghouse in Monroeville as Metallurgical Engineer; I worked in Carnegie-Mellon in the Public Relations Department for a year before switching to the Instrument Society of American located then in Wm. Penn Hotel. After we married we lived on Fifth Avenue right across from the entrance to that women’s college, forget what it’s called now.
We both recall our Pittsburgh days as really great ones. The only thing we hated was the grey skies of long winters and the snow that turned black by February and lasted til May.