Blogging 101: The Perfect Place to Start

So I started blogging very recently and I would not recommend what I did at all! I started on a whim and gave no thought to the bigger picture. I am just now figuring out what I really want to do with my blog and am completely redesigning it at the moment. Luckily, I have learned a lot and found some really great resources.

Here is a post by Molly from Molly's BookNook. I wish I had done what she suggests and defined my 3 Ws before I started my blog. This is a perfect place to start. This is a great exercise, I suggest you read through the post and make lists of your answers to each question. Write down every single thing that comes to mind, don't edit yourself, even if you think it doesn't "go together" write it down, it may become part of the bigger picture for you. Do this for a few days, you'll probably jump around a bit, new ideas will come, write them all down. Remember, don't edit - add everything, subtract nothing. This is great for building the foundation of your blog but if you are interested in getting a sneak peak at the monetization part, search "blog income report" on Pinterest. You'll find a ton of bloggers give a breakdown of where their income comes from. There are a million ways to make money from a blog and it is interesting to see all the different possibilities. If anyone has questions, ask me! I'm no expert, I've just had a head start on the research - and quite a bit of trial and error ;)

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How CAPTCHAs and Duolingo are Changing the Web, with Your Help

This is awesome. I love Ted Talks! This one is from 2011 but I just watched it for the first time today.

Have you ever used Duolingo to learn a language? If you haven’t it is great and I definitely recommend that you check it out. You can access it from a computer or download the app. Oh and it is completely free!

Have you ever filled out a CAPTCHA or a reCAPTCHA? If you ever filled out a form online, you probably have; it’s that little code/picture/puzzle that helps protect websites from spam by verifying that you are, in fact, human.

Did you know that you are actually contributing something amazing every single time you use Duolingo or fill out a reCAPTCHA?

Every time you complete a CAPTCHA, you help digitize text, annotate images, and build machine learning datasets which in turn helps preserve books, improve maps, and solve AI (Artificial Intelligence) problems (Google reCAPTCHA).

And when you use Duolingo to learn a language you are also helping translate the web into every major language.

Pretty awesome right? I just had to share this video!

Thank you Luis von Ahn for presenting this Ted Talk on Massive-scale online collaboration and thank you Netflix for helping me find it today!  

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