Learned a lot from today's Intro to Blogging on Bowen which Boris and I presented. Check out my notes and lessons from Bowen Blogging Intro Presentation 21 January 2006.

Roland and I are hanging out at my parents' place on Bowen Island after giving a 4 hour training session this morning - an Intro to Blogging. We had a small group join us at the Bowen Island Community School (BICS) in the computer lab, and Roland and I rolled on through the growing description of blogging, photo sharing on Flickr, and how content flows all around.

It was great finally meeting Dr. Richard Smith in person -- he took the picture of Roland and Clarice at left. Looking forward to working more on some local Vancouver projects we've got brewing.

We had a mix of comfort levels with computers and the Internet, as well as different reasons for wanting to learn more about blogging. Flickr was a big hit, and to some was all the blogging they needed. We also set people up with Wordpress.com accounts, and even set up the Flickr -> post to Wordpress settings.

The biggest conceptual stumbling block was "What is the difference between a website and a blog?". The answer, other than a blog being usually a lot easier to update, is that there is no difference.

Roland and I are hanging out at my parents' place on Bowen Island after giving a 4 hour training session this morning - an Intro to Blogging. We had a small group join us at the Bowen Island Community School (BICS) in the computer lab, and Roland and I rolled on through the growing description of blogging, photo sharing on Flickr, and how content flows all around.

It was great finally meeting Dr. Richard Smith in person -- he took the picture of Roland and Clarice at left. Looking forward to working more on some local Vancouver projects we've got brewing.

We had a mix of comfort levels with computers and the Internet, as well as different reasons for wanting to learn more about blogging. Flickr was a big hit, and to some was all the blogging they needed. We also set people up with Wordpress.com accounts, and even set up the Flickr -> post to Wordpress settings.

The biggest conceptual stumbling block was "What is the difference between a website and a blog?". The answer, other than a blog being usually a lot easier to update, is that there is no difference.