Target Practice: Essential Blogging Skills

Basic skills needed for successful blogging are covered in this chapter, including reading for topics and news, writing styles, writing quantity, interviewing, taking notes, editing, and HTML layout. Useful tips for taking appropriate blog photographs and video are included, as well as how to best use imagery in a blog. Some fundamentals of Photoshop specific to blogging are addressed. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of video interviewing styles.