Southbank

To start your free 14-day blog...

Val asked how to create a free trial blog. Pretty simple: Go to Typepad. Click on the big orange "Start Now" button, and follow what happens. You'll need to provide a credit-card number, and then you're off and running.

If you decide to keep the blog, let me know the URL and I'll put the link on the Southbank blog.

Twitter as agent of change

Had to share this fascinating article, in the light of last evening's introduction to Twitter.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/tweeting-for-student-health-care-coverage/?ref=health

This is an example of creating a link in a post

This is a link to H5N1, created by clicking on the Link command and typing in the URL of my H5N1 blog..

Blog Discipline

When Renee mentioned that blogging is a discipline, I remembered this helpful infographic I spotted the other day.  It is found at this site, and you can download it as a printable PDF if you send them your email address.  Not sure if this appeals to anyone else's brain, but I participate on a few of these platforms for the work I do, and this organizational tool strikes me as useful. 

It is found at this URL: 

http://www.thewholebraingroup.com/sensible-social-media-checklist-v20-infographic

 

 

Can't make it tonight.

I will miss you guys.

Thursday's class

Hi, everyone--

Tonight we're going to follow up on using Southbank. If you have questions, raise them and I'll try to answer them. I'd also like your advice on whether to take the blog "public" and make it known to the world.

If you already have a blog, send me the URL and I'll create a TypeList of such sites for Southbank. And if you want to try your hand at creating your own blog, we can start tonight.

If you don't have a Twitter account, I show you how to create one (free and pretty easy) and how to get the most out of it.

A couple of items for you

I realize a couple of people never got the handout from last week's first class. So here it is. Just click on the link and you'll have it in a couple of seconds.

Download Searching the Web with Google PDF

And here is The One-Hour-a-Day Novel, a 60-page booklet of materials I used in my one-day workshop at Cap for years. It's very similar to the materials on Write a Novel, but without the suggested assignments. I hope you find it useful.

Download Hour-a-Day Novel 2011 PDF

Gadzooks! (Eureka was already taken)

A colony of SB Germs, flushed with success, after guest-blogging on the site Crawford Kilian so kindly helped us create last evening.

Yippee! I'm in ladies!

hello from white rock

hi, I got in at home. Janet, what about "The Germanators".

Welcome to Blog World

Yeah, my first time blogging! Yeah, we are learning new technology that is a must for all writers! Lovin' it :-)

Whadda'ya think?

I think we need a name for this inaugural group of Southbank writers.  I would like to propose that we call ourselves 'The Germs'.  Okay - two reasons - we are the germinal group, and we are in the business of the care and feeding of germs (thank you, Lois Peterson).

Go for it group.

Write something, somewhere, somehow every day at anytime.

Great view from Central library

Deesigned  by Bing Thom, the Central Library building is gorgeous. From the outside, it looks like a glass-sided cruise ship.

From inside, we look through huge glass walls: up the mountains, across to the Central SkyTrain station and down -- into a very large hole.

Here's my question: When this hole becomes City Hall and a parkade, what will be left of the view?

I'm in....

This ole gal got it...

Welcome to the Writing Community

Writing provides the link between the hand and the brain. Free hand is a powerful form of expression!

Hello

Yeah!!! I made it in!

Welcome to Blog World

My first time blogging! yeah we are learning new technology how exciting!

Eureka!

Fellow Southbank maidens (well, it is the maiden voyage of the program!), I've actually figured out how to get into this thing.  Consider this a test.

Is anybody there?

This is Toni. Just posting to see if it posts.