Copyright and the Internet: How to Use Photography on your Blog

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When you use stock photos in your blog posts, they just aren’t YOU. Your readers want to know who you are, and that includes the photos you use to illustrate your blog posts as well as your own blogging voice.

One Goal: Remove Negative Thinking

"Bat Flight", David Ladilaw, Brown University Computer Sciences. This video simulates and visualizes air flow as a bat flies. From the Santa Fe Complex's Art and Science of Systems Biology Event, 2009.

A lot of bloggers feel overwhelmed getting things organized on their sites from design to technical tweaking. But, “What one thing has to be handled this year?” is a good question to ask yourself.

That New Blog Smell

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It’s like the excitement of Christmas morning, or a new baby’s cry, or the smell of a new car: a new blog in the world. Today five new blogs were born at the second-ever Blogshop at the Santa Fe Complex.

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New Blogshop Dates for Oct, Nov & Dec, 2010

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“As a beginner blogger, the blogshop helped me to get my website chosen and set up. I am learning from those who have been blogging for a while, things like making sure you post regularly, and how to get your domain set up easily and cheaply. I am ready to go! Thanks, Melissa!”

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Preparing the Launch of Blogshop

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It’s taken years to coordinate the design, marketing, writing and technical skills for Blogshop, and yet, only a few weeks to launch this new endeavor. Tonight I am finalizing the color palette, the WordPress theme, the pages and overall content of the site.

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September Blogshop Update

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Thanks to everyone interested in the first Blogshop. The class is full! Please enter your email at right (Get Blogshop Updates) if you are interested in the next Blogshop. I am looking at dates in October in Santa Fe. For those not in the lovely northern New Mexico Area, I will be publishing a Blogshop… [Continue Reading]

An Invitation to Blogshop

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A lot of you have been asking, so now I am inviting you to the first ever Blogshop! Blogshop is a weekend workshop that will get you up and blogging in 2 days. Melissa J White–marketing designer and professional blogger–will teach a 4 part series that will include the art of blogging and the technical… [Continue Reading]