The following notes were taken from a craft improvement session of the Outdoor Writers Assn of America (annual conference) on the topic of Sponsored Blogs and Innovative Web Opportunities — presented by Kim Kavin, past president of Boating Writers International (www.bwi.org).
- www.boatermouth.com and www.charterwave.com are her two websites.
- If you learn just a little about producing websites you look like a genius to many people.
- CharterWave became the world’s largest repository of yacht charter content articles.
- Sponsored blogs are listed on her website (either hosted on her website or the sponsor’s own site).
- Kim also offers her services as a ghost blogger (writing a blog for someone else).
- Be smart with URLs (everyone should try to own your own name)
- www.google.com/trends
- www.google.com/insights/search
- Use these two sites to help determine your URL names.
- Learn some tech basics
- Follow these Twitter geeks: @LanceUlanoff, @pkafka, @mashable, @NiemanLab
- Biggest mistake she made…not thinking big enough. Be fearless.
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Thanx for posting these summaries, Jim. They have been very interesting.