TrainingZone guidelines for bloggers
The TrainingZone blogosphere is one of the most important parts of the community. This is one of the best places where members can air their grievances, share knowledge and offer advice through their own experiences. It’s a chance to tell your own story.
NB If you are STARTING a blog, please make sure you tick it to 'FEATURED BLOG' in the positional drop down menu.
Here are a few guidelines for what we require of our bloggers:
- Word count: Whatever you want it to be, but if you’re going over 1000 words your post may need editing down
- Regularity: You can post as often as you like. Some of our bloggers post every couple of days, some of our bloggers post every couple of months. There is no pressure to write on too regular a basis. One post at a time though, please
- Deadline: We don’t operate to any deadlines with blogs, unless there is a specific reason eg a tie-in with your book being given away in the book club which is featuring in a particular bulletin
- Tone: This is where blogging comes into its own. The tone is much freer and easier than an editorial feature. All published writing must adhere to the basic laws of English, U cant use txt spk 4 example, but a degree of rambling and introspection is definitely allowe
- Examples: A good blog post is opinionated in tone and stimulates debate. Here are links to a few good examples.
If we like a blog post we will often publish it in a bulletin (like this), which is great exposure (41,000 email recepients) for you and/or your business. Sometimes we’ll even contact the author to turn the main idea of the post into an article or series of articles, if there is scope for expansion.
The main thing, though, is that blogging is easy, fun and you can get started today. The community loves hearing about people’s experiences in the world of Learning and Development.
The benefits of blogging:
- A great way of engaging with the community
- It’s a place for you to vent frustrations
- No deadlines
- You can be more opinionated
- No restricted word count
- You can blog about anything, within reason. There need be no message or subject matter. NB direct advertising or press releases will be removed as will those which are used to simply promote other blogs. (TrainingZone reserves the right to veto any inappropriate material, of course)
