How to Write a Great First Blog Post
Top Tip: Let your readers know what to expect.
Same tip, broken into three simple parts:
- Introduce yourself. Who’s writing?
- Explain what you’re blogging about and why.
- Tell readers how they can be involved.
For example…
LIVE UNITED Y’All! What does it mean to LIVE UNITED? We hope to share many answers to this question through our posts related to Metro United Way’s work to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community. This group blog, written primarily by Metro United Way staff but also by community volunteers and advocates, is not only ours, its yours. We want YOU, that’s right, YOU, to read and, more importantly, to be involved by commenting and letting us know your thoughts.
We’ve written a nice About page (well, we think it’s nice) that explains more about LIVE UNITED Y’All, like our comment policies, why we started this blog and what to do if you have found your way here and need help.
Be sure you’ve subscribed either via an RSS reader (orange button, upper right), or email (also upper right) so that you can get the insider’s scoop immediately from us. We’ll be posting 3 – 5 times per week on business days.
So there are our details. Would you add anything to the ‘reader expectations’ list tips for letting readers know what to expect in a first post?
With that, I hereby officially kick off our new blog, along with the new year. [Insert favorite cliche. I like: It's a fresh start for us all.] We, as a community, have a lot ahead of us, but that includes opportunity- opportunity to communicate, collaborate and create.
Let’s make it a year to live united, ya’ll.
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