How to Start a Blog with Friends

Blogs...they're everywhere. You can't turn the corner....I mean click a link without stumbling across some sort of blog nowadays. But why not? 30 years ago people kept journals to track their thoughts -- well with the advent of the internet, now those thoughts can be put out in the open for everybody to read.

Recently my friends began a blog to discuss their lives at college. They needed help keeping up with the posts so they added me as an author. I figured this was a great time to write up an 'ible describing how to create a blog -- even if nobody reads it, who cares? Just blog.

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The blog that my friends started is called The Schiddrone Blog, but its title is The Weezy F

Step 1 Have a Common Interest; a Mission Statement

To write an effective blog, there needs to be some theme. As you have all seen, there are blogs on the internet about just about anything you could imagine, and that's fantastic! It's the age of the amateur -- just look at instructables, people post for fun and everybody benefits.

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Schiddrone Blog has the mission statement Schiddrone.com Critiquing the world, one post at a time.

The easiest way to come up with a mission statement or even a theme of a blog is to think of what you and your friends usually talk about. In our case, complaints were a common theme; therefore, posting our complaints seemed like a logical step.

Comments

[knex inventor]

Oh my god! YOU KILLED KENNY! YOU BASTARD! lol =)