Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with Blogging 5Chapter 1: Discovering Blog Basics 7Chapter 2: Entering the Blogosphere 33Chapter 3: Choosing and Hosting Blog Software 51Part 2: Setting Up Your Blog 79Chapter 4: Starting a Blogger Blog 81Chapter 5: Starting a WordPress Blog 107Chapter 6: Creating a Squarespace Blog 139Chapter 7: Considering Other Blogging Platforms 151Part 3: Fitting In and Feeling Good 159Chapter 8: Finding Your Niche 161Chapter 9: Creating Great Content 179Chapter 10: Building Community with Comments 203Chapter 11: Blogging Anonymously 225Part 4: Going Beyond Words 235Chapter 12: Working with Photos 237Chapter 13: Starting a Podcast 251Chapter 14: Diving into Vlogging 267Chapter 15: Leveraging Community with Forums 275Part 5: Marketing and Promoting Your Blog 287Chapter 16: Making Your Blog Easy to Find 289Chapter 17: Getting to Know Social Networking 299Chapter 18: Joining the Big Four Social Networks 315Chapter 19: Measuring Blog Presence 329Part 6: Getting Business-y with It 339Chapter 20: Making Mad Mad Money 341Chapter 21: Blogging for Companies 355Part 7: The Part of Tens 371Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Grow Community 373Chapter 23: Ten Things All Bloggers Should Do 381Index 389
Amy Lupold Bair is the owner of Resourceful Mommy Media, LLC, and author of the popular parenting and lifestyle blog, Resourceful Mommy. In 2008, Amy invented the social media marketing tool the Twitter Party, and in early 2009, she created the Global Influence Network for bloggers. A former English teacher and mother of two, she is also the author of Raising Digital Families For Dummies, a guide for parents raising digital natives.
