Final thought how to blogging tips

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The Final Thought Blog Posts - Continuing the Conversation Each week, members of our #SAChat Leadership Team be mining our chat transcripts to look for some Final Thought gold. We'll choose some of our favorite tweets and ask these members of the #SAChat network to write a blog post about their Final Thought - anything that makes us want to hear more fair game for an invitation to write! Blog posts will become part of our regular post schedule and be featured on the SA Blog. To help you write the best post possible, we've assembled a crack team of Final Thought Blogging Coaches (superhero outfits included) to be an extra set of eyes (or ears) as you brainstorm ideas, assemble a draft, and edit your final product. Check out some of their best blogging advice below: Some blog readers will only scan your post for a few seconds. To accommodate these people, make your post digest-able - small paragraphs, bullet points & bold text to highlight important points. (Tom Krieglstein, @tomkrieglstein) Pull from genuine life moments and write about them genuinely. People will appreciate your authenticity and the learning you gleam from the moment in your life will resonate with people who have also lived through something similar. It's a great way to connect and share learning! (Dustin Ramsdell, @HigherEd_Geek) Remember your main point, or thesis, of the post. You're welcome to write more than one post for us if you realize you're tackling too many things at once. (Sabina De Matteo, @sabinaDeelight) For titling, think, would I click on this to read more? Does it give enough information for me to know to care? (Sabina De Matteo, @sabinaDeelight) Despite your long hours of dissertation writing, writing a post isn't an academic paper. The SAC is all about your voice, your writing & your story. Be more casual than formal. This doesn't mean you can make up facts, you just don't need to make it at formal (Krieglstein, 33). (Tom Krieglstein, @tomkrieglstein) Write from your heart. Tell us a story! (Ryan Bye, @ByeByeRyan) For even more awesome blogging tips, check out this post written by Kristen Abell: http://kristen-abell.com/writing-blog-posts/

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The Final Thought Blog Posts - Continuing the Conversation

Each week, members of our #SAChat Leadership Team be mining our chat transcripts to look for someFinal Thought gold. We'll choose some of our favorite tweets and ask these members of the #SAChatnetwork to write a blog post about their Final Thought - anything that makes us want to hear morefair game for an invitation to write! Blog posts will become part of our regular post schedule and befeatured on the SA Blog.

To help you write the best post possible, we've assembled a crack team of Final Thought BloggingCoaches (superhero outfits included) to be an extra set of eyes (or ears) as you brainstorm ideas,assemble a draft, and edit your final product. Check out some of their best blogging advice below:

Some blog readers will only scan your post for a few seconds. To accommodate these people,

make your post digest-able - small paragraphs,

bullet points & bold text to highlight important points.

(Tom Krieglstein, @tomkrieglstein)

Pull from genuine life moments and write about them genuinely.

People will appreciate your authenticity and the learning you

gleam from the moment in your life will resonate with people who have also lived through something similar.

It's a great way to connect and share learning!(Dustin Ramsdell, @HigherEd_Geek)

Remember your main point, or thesis, of the post.

You're welcome to write more than one post for us

if you realize you're tackling too many things at once.

(Sabina De Matteo, @sabinaDeelight)

For titling, think, would I click on this to read more?

Does it give enough informationfor me to know to care?

(Sabina De Matteo,@sabinaDeelight)

Despite your long hours of dissertation writing,

writing a post isn't an academic paper. The SAC is all about your voice,

your writing & your story. Be more casual than formal.

This doesn't mean you can make up facts, you just don't need to make it at formal (Krieglstein, 33).

(Tom Krieglstein, @tomkrieglstein)

Write from your heart. Tell us a story!

(Ryan Bye, @ByeByeRyan)

For even more awesome blogging tips, check out this post writtenby Kristen Abell: http://kristen-abell.com/writing-blog-posts/