Blogging, RSS Classes March 30, April 30; $15 Each

Beth Shankle

March 17, 2010

Blogging and RSS classes will be offered Tuesday, March 30, and Friday, April 30, in the 13th floor Bloomberg Center for Electronic Journalism next to the library.

Each class is one hour. The fee is $15 per class for NPC members and $25 per class for non-members. Pay by credit card, check, or member account. Sign up for one or both.

9:30 to 10:30 am – Build Your Own Newstand (using RSS)

11 to Noon – Basics of Blogging

Register online at http://press.org/library/classes.cfm or by contacting Beth Shankle at [email protected] or 202-662-7509. Participants are welcome to bring their own laptops for any of the sessions, but computers will also be provided.

In “Build Your Own Newsstand,” we will discuss how you can create your personalized news list by using RSS feeds. We will start by talking about what RSS is, where you can find RSS feeds, and how you can subscribe to them. By the end of the class all participants will have a Google Reader account and will have subscribed to a newspaper columnist, a blog, a Twitter feed and a Flickr feed. The class is limited to 15 people.

In “Basics of Blogging,” participants will set up a blog using Blogger and learn how to format their posts, add videos and pictures, easily include ads, and monitor the blog statistics using FeedBurner. The class is limited to 15 people.