The IT Girl's Guide to Blogging with Moxie

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Want to break into blogging but don’t know where to start? Dynamic duo Joelle Reeder and Katherine Scoleri of The Moxie Girls^TM show you how to start your first blog, polish your prose, get involved in blogging communities, make sense of RSS feeds, podcasts, photos and more — all with fun, humor and attitude!

Inside you will find the need-to-know info to get your blog noticed: How to choose the right blogging platform or content management tool, select a web host, dress up your blog, manage blog content and keep your privates private! When you are ready for more, The Moxie Girls will treat you to insider dish on blog etiquette, analyzing blog traffic, blogging for business, creating podcasts and adding bling to your blog with plugins, add-ons and more. Throw in the refreshing cocktails, beauty tips and gossip with the Girls at the end of each chapter and you’ll be Blogging with Moxie in no time. So, what are you waiting for?

The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging With Moxie is packed with the content you need wrapped in casual, engaging dialog and a cheeky, bite-sized format.

Bargain-blogging with tools such as WordPress®, TypePad®, and Vox
Choosing a content management system like Expression Engine or Movable Type
Managing blog content, using tags and moderating comments
Selecting a professional designer and choosing from off-the-rack templates
An introduction to podcasting and videocasting
Finding, joining and managing blog communities
Protecting your online identity
Using a blog to better your business

Product Details

ISBN13: 9780470168004
Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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I like this book.....

Review Date: December 6, 2009

Reviewer: J. L. Patterson, Nashville, TN USA

I like this book. I'm fairly new to blogging and already I've been able to utilize some of the ideas in this book. I like the little sidebars of fun things to do too!

Oh So Helpful!

Review Date: September 18, 2009

Reviewer: S. O'Bryant, Chicago, IL USA

This was amazing! I learned so much about the world of blogging from this little book. I'm using this as a reference as I go along designing my own blog, and it's been very helpful in my quest for a site designer. I would really suggest this for anyone out there who wants to create an above average site.

Worth The Price if You're New to Blogging

Review Date: June 15, 2009

Reviewer: CathrynG, California, USA

I'm glad I bought this book - how could I resist the title? I had blogged on and off for a year or two, but wanted to jump in with both feet.

Blogging with Moxie was an entertaining, easy-reading overview of the resources available, blogging etiquette and privacy & security tips. It also helped me think before I leaped about what my purpose was, what kind of image I wanted to present and how committed I was to blogging.

I especially liked that it helped me think through what I wanted to accomplish with my blog (marketing my fiction writing brand).

I had already chosen WordPress so some of the detailed instructions on using other tools weren't useful, but important to have in an overview. This will be especially useful for helping new bloggers decide what route they want to take, how to manage pictures and podcasts, if that's part of your plan.

The only criticism I have is that I was trying to figure out how to get an icon on my blog so readers could subscribe, and the overview of FeedBurner was very brief. Granted, Moxie sent me to the FeedBurner site, but it wasn't clear to me that I had to have FeedBurner to set up the subscription. I thought there might be other options and this didn't come out in the book. (I'm still not clear whether there are other options, but FeedBurner works great!)

Good blogging advice

Review Date: May 18, 2009

Reviewer: mickireader, Nakagawa, Hokkaido Japan

The blogging advice was pretty good, and they use a breezy style that's easy to read. However, not being a cappuchino fan, I felt hopelessly uncool. And, the beauty tips are not nearly as good as the blogging advice. Smear handcreme all over and then blog?? Uh-uh. What do you use to clean the keyboard off when it's all slimy from moisturizers? LOL! Easy to skip those bits, though. It's not bad.

The Huffington Post how-to-blog was a better fit for me, though. But, they are not really overlapping products, so it might be worthwhile to get both. Huff for the content, and Mox for the style.

Informative and Catchy

Review Date: December 6, 2008

Reviewer: A. Bender, Union Hall, VA

The IT Girl's Guide to Blogging with Moxie

After reading many of the reviews I decided to give this book a chance. Joelle and Katherine make learning the basics of blogging and getting your blog noticed fun. Many of the information in this book can be found online through various searches or by utilizing your preferred blog's help section, but this book provides the framework to getting started and eliminates the hours of searching and weeding through the good and the bad of blogging and blogging tools. I have found "The IT Girl's Guide to Blogging with Moxie" to be fun resource and a staple of my blogging repertoire. If you are looking to get your feet wet this book is for you.