The East-West Center Association presents
Blogging 101: If I Can Blog, You Can Blog
Wednesday, February 7th at 3:00 pm
EWC Burns Hall 2012
The Web is the Wild West of publishing.
The Web and blogging is so democratic-Anyone who has a computer and a
couple of hundred dollars a year to pay for Web hosting can reach the entire world
with his or her ideas. That is democratic, in a way that conventional publishing and
media (with all their gatekeepers) are not.
What is a blog? Jeanne Sather explains the difference between a blog and a
conventional Web site. People blog for different reasons. She'll list some of these
reasons, with examples of blogs that fall into each type. She'll also explain how to
blog: templates, hosting Web sites, how to post, how to drive traffic and promote a
blog, and how to make money with a blog.
Jeanne Sather was an EWC student in Open Grants from 1978-80. She began her
career as a journalist, working for newspapers, magazines, and wire services, including
Newsweek in Tokyo, Reuters in Seattle, MSN, and a number of other publications.
When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998 at age 43, she started writing
about cancer. First she wrote about her own experience, with a weekly feature on the
OnHealth Web site called "Jeanne's Diary" that chronicled the ups and downs of her first
series of cancer treatments. Then she began writing for the Web site of the cancer center
where she gets her treatment.
Jeanne has two master's degrees, one in Japanese language from the University of Hawaii,
where she studied on a grant from the East-West Center, and another in journalism from
the University of California at Berkeley. She has a B.A. in Communications from Michigan
State University in East Lansing.
For more information, contact the EWC Associates Office at 808-944-7506.
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