How to Write a Blog Post
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this comprehensive and engaging course, you will be able to:
- List 11 key career benefits of developing a blog
- Choose your blog’s audience and select a unique niche
- Identify the most popular blogging platforms and blog post structures
- Asses the strengths and weaknesses of common blog post topics
- Successfully construct the 5 standard sections of a blog post
- List 9 methods of sharing your blog posts to maximize engagement
- Compare the most effective methods of monetizing your blog content
- Apply best practices in responding to reader comments on your blog posts
- Avoid the 10 most common mistakes made when writing blog posts
- Use an e-mail template to request a guest post on a popular blog
Instructor
Paul M. Sutter, PhD is Research Professor of Astrophysics at Stony Brook University, Guest Researcher at the Flatiron Institute in New York City, and contributing editor to Forbes, Space.com, and LiveScience, where his articles are syndicated to CBS News, Scientific American, and MSN, amongst others. Author of over 60 peer-reviewed articles as well as 2 books (published by Prometheus Books and Pegasus Books), he received his PhD in Physics as Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before completing post-doctoral fellowships in France at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris and in Italy at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste. Since this time, Dr. Sutter has developed one of the most popular astrophysics podcasts in the world and has delivered over 100 conference presentations, seminars, and colloquia at prestigious institutions across the globe. A go-to expert for journalists and producers, he regularly appears on television, radio, and in print, including on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, Science Channel, and Weather Channel.
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