WordPress is the most popular blogging platform.  It’s very intuitive and easy to use.  If you are using the free WordPress site, your blog post options will look slightly different but posting a blog will be the same.  If you have a self-hosted blog (like mine) you will have greater options for customization by changing blog templates and adding addition plugins to your blog.  Other blogging platforms that you may be familiar with include Blogspot and Typepad.

In general I recommend that blogs are between 250-600 words.  These are short bursts of information that provide value to your reading audience.  Blogs are much shorter than traditional journalism pieces.  For bloggers, I think this is a clear advantage.

Check out the video to learn how to post a blog to your WordPress blog and learn some foundational techniques like tags, hyperlinks, and your title.

Be sure to check out some great resources to learn more about blogging for the HR industry like my new HR blog aggregator, HR Blogger. It organizes what I think is the best HR, recruiting, and talent management blog content on the web today.  Includes great videos blogs and even flickr streams from the human resources industry.

 

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