Clear Blogging : How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them by Bob Walsh

We just received a copy of this “must read” book for creating “blogging success.” It’s a fantastic “How-To” manual containing just about everything you’d want to know about the “World of Blogging.” If participating in the blogosphere interests you, be sure to put in a request for the book.

It looks as though this will be a very popular book once folks know we have it available. Someone checked it out the first day we put it on the “New Non-fiction Book” table. And now, its on its way to a Key West patron who requested it. (Better put your “Request” in soon so you don’t get stuck at the end of a long “Request” list.)

Clear Blogging : How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them, by Bob Walsh is easy to understand, easy on your eyes: plenty of white-space between each line; large-sized screen-shots; chapter headings on each page.

To see if you like Bob Walsh’s writing style, get a free download of Chapter 9: "Successful Blogging" from the publisher’s web site. Look for the button on the far-right side of the page if you don’t have a wide monitor.

If, after reading Chapter 9, you decide to buy you own copy immediately rather than waiting to read our copy, why not go to Bob Walsh’s blog and click on his amazon ad in the upper part of his right-hand column? This way, when you buy his book, he’ll get his publishing royalty, plus a commission from amazon. While you're there, you can catch up on his latest advice about blogging.

Or, you could order it from "Food for Thought" or "Marathon Discount Books" here in Marathon.

Table of Contents for Clear Blogging : How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them, by Bob Walsh © 2007:

Part 1: Revolution in Progress: Please Make Noise! "...details what blogging is, why you should care, and how to get started."

* Chapter 1: Why Blog? "If you think blogs don’t matter..."

* Chapter 2: Hooking into the Blogosphere "...how to turn the blogosphere into your own personal information wire."

* Chapter 3: Getting Started "...how to start a blog with three typical blogging services...how to size up which of these three, or any other blogging service or software, is right for you."


Part 2: Building Your Blog "...a good, hard look at the different types of blogs...personal, professional, and business."

* Chapter 4: What Do Good Blogs Share? "...good blogs have certain practices and traits in common....shows you potentially career-ending mistakes to avoid...your legal rights as a blogger..." (An extremely important chapter.)

* Chapter 5: Building Your Personal Blog "...blogs for just you, your family, and perhaps your friends...the whys and wherefores of having a personal blog."

* Chapter 6: Professionally Blogging, Blogging Professionally "...we’ll talk with legal, medical, and other professionals about why they blog...an emerging new kind of job: the professional blogger."

* Chapter 7: Building Your Company Blog "The smaller your company the bigger the impact..."


Part 3: Secrets of Influential Blogging "...the technologies, techniques, and wisdom of extremely successful bloggers..." The 140 pages in this part of the book should really interest folks who are already blogging--especially if their blogs aren’t as successful as they like, or expected.

* Chapter 8: Power Tools for Bloggers How to get the most out of Technorati and FeedBurner

* Chapter 9: Successful Blogging "...advice from people whose blogs are highly influential...about what makes a good post and what makes a good post great."

* Chapter 10: The New Fourth Estate "...we'll talk with several reporters who have fired their newspapers and gone the blog route,...how you can become a 'citizen journalist.'"

* Chapter 11: Adding Podcasting to Your Blog "...what it takes to create and post a podcast, and talk with two leading podcasters..."

* Chapter 12: Monetizing Your Blog for Fun and Profit "...ins and outs of dozens of ways of successfully monetizing your blog..."

* Chapter 13: Building Readership "...how you measure, build, and create readership...a couple of ways outside the blogging box to further the reach of your blog..."


Part 4: Blogging Toward the Future

* Chapter 14: Blogging from the New Front Lines "Whether you're a ...cop...scientist...soldier..." or related to one!

* Chapter 15: Welcome to Your Future "...eight predictions about where blogging is going."

Index (pages 331-351)

Clear Blogging : How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them, by Bob Walsh, is definitely worth 5 stars from gobbysreviews.

ENJOY!