Blogging 101: Coming Soon!

I've been at this whole blogging thing for a while now... in one way or another since about the time I put my first website up in 1994.

Now, I haven't been quite as prolific or on top of things over the years as some people I know, but I have been paying attention to the ebb and flow of it all. I've seen the maturation of the blog--it's crawl into the mainstream of society and business. It's boom into buzzword-dom and something to alternately snipe at or applaud.

I've seen it transform the way people get their news, make their friends, work, play and otherwise live their lives.

Right now, I'm (sometimes barely) maintaining a handful of blogs: Durosia.com, The Searcher Journal, How to Crush Without Being Crushed, ToobTalk and my LiveJournal. Recently, I've added Twitter to my bag of tricks. For years I've toyed with the idea of really diving in and making something of all that online real estate, maybe trying to recoup some of the dollars I've spent on hosting, maybe reach more people who can be educated or entertained (or both) by what I write.

Well, the time is now.

I'm kicking off the new year by presenting a Blogging 101 seminar as part of a new series of talks through the DC Bloggers group (see their MeetUp page, too). It'll be happening at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, 9 January, at the Cleveland Park Library.

There will, of course, be numerous mentions of this as the day approaches.

But first, I'm going to ask all of you a question: What do you most want to know about blogging?