Course No: 001

Course Title:BLOGS: FUN AND BUSINESS

Credits: 1 units

Grade: Pass/No Pass option.

Status: Fall 2010 Saturday Workshop

Description:This course focuses on blog products, techniques, marketing and revenue generation. Students create, write, syndicate, market, and promote personal or business blogs. Emphasis is on leveraging content, building tribe, and generating revenue.

WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 300 of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today.

 

You can open a free account on WordPress.com start blogging or have a self-hosting WordPress installed on your own site. To learn more about Word Press, visit WordPress.org and read on WordPress Lessons.