SOCIAL: Blogging Questions

[O'Brien, Chris]

Hey: 
 
I would second the Wordpress choice. By far my favorite blogging tool. I've used blogger, moveable type and found MT by far to be the most annoying....
 
Money: Of course, the obvious thing to do is register for a good adsense account and become part of the great long tail. But most folks make tiny money from this. I'd suggest you check out BlogHer.com. It's a blogging network for women and runs it's own ad/publishing network that has higher payment and good exposure (and they run a lot of conferences for women bloggers that make for great networking...)...
 
Also, the SF Chronicle has started an ad network ( i think) for local bloggers. Not sure where to find information on this, but others might know?
 
best, 
 
Chris O'Brien

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From: social-bounces at lists.deeptrouble.com on behalf of Adrian Cotter
Sent: Mon 7/27/2009 7:45 PM
To: Catherine Rauschuber
Cc: Deep's Social
Subject: Re: SOCIAL: Blogging Questions


1. Wordpress is great and my favorite blogging tool at this point. There are other choices, but if you think it works for you - stick to it.
 
2. I don't have direct experience, but you might want to check out various non profit tech sites for articles: NTEN is one. Could probably find plenty of articles just by googling.   

Adrian

On Jul 27, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Catherine Rauschuber <c.rauschuber at gmail.com> wrote:



	Hello O' Wise and Web-Saavy Socialites ~
	
	I'm putting together a blog that will launch in a month or so, and I have a few very basic questions as I start along this path. 
	
	The blog will be called "SF Polichicks" and will feature all-women writers, from across the political spectrum writing on SF political and social issues.  I reserved the wordpress blog URL about a year and a half ago, but haven't used it yet.
	
	My questions are:
	1.  Is the Wordpress blogging platform the best choice?  Or at least almost the best choices?  What are the major downsides and upsides?  
	2.  I would like to include an ad revenue componant.  Does anyone have any good 'how to' resources about creating/maximizing blogging revenue?  I know nothing at this point...  However, I have a lot of solid and well-known women writers lined up, and I have a feeling that the blog readership could potentially be high... so I figure I should at least this to generate tiny bit of little pocket change :)
	
	Any and all feedback would be much appreciated!
	
	Thanks!
	Cat
	
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