When: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 at 7 p.m., 6:30 to network
Where: Doubletree Hotel Tampa Westshore Airport, 4500 West Cypress Street, Tampa, 33607

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging

Blogs start conversations with users, attract more people to your community, and open your company up to constructive input and feedback. A blog also acts as your company’s personal face to the community and can be a perfect companion to a wiki. However, blogs and other forms of social media are also “perilous and fraught with error,” as Anne Gentle writes. Whether you’re a company blogger or an independent blogger, avoid these seven blogging sins: being fake, irrelevant, boring, unreadable, irresponsible, inaccessible, and inattentive.

About Tom

Tom Johnson is a senior technical writer for a non-profit organization in Salt Lake City, Utah. He writes an active technical communications blog at idratherbewriting.com. He also records podcasts, often interviewing technical writing luminaries around the world. And he started WriterRiver.com, a social news site where anyone can submit links to articles about technical communication. Tom is also a WordPress blog consultant.