How-To Guides

The Commons has incorporated into the site several How-To Sections designed to give non-experts resources and education to enhance communication skills.

How-To Guides:

Streaming How-To

Photography Tips

Video How-To

Audio How-To

Blogging Tips

For additonal education in these and many other areas check the Commons Tutorial Section.

The Content

Strategist

The Beginner’s Guide To Blogging & Content Marketing Strategy [FREE - EBOOK]

Planning a content strategy from zero
Creating an editorial calendar
Sourcing great freelance writers
Coming up with awesome story ideas
Writing content people will share
Promoting and distributing your content to a wide audience
Turning passersby into rabid readers of your site
Tracking and optimizing your content
And more!

Grab the guide here:

Blogging Tips

Via "The Content Strategist", contently.com.

5 Free Data Visualization Sources for Bloggers

Rani Molla is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School who specializes in digital media journalism. Follow her on Twitter @ranimolla

We’ve compiled a quick list of free visualization sources for bloggers so your readers can better understand your data, and maybe even make it go viral.

How Brand Bloggers Can Keep Up with the NY Times

Kylie Jane Wakefield is a Los Angeles based freelance writer and publicist.

The New York Times, which has more than 60 blogs, should be looked to for inspiration by brand bloggers.

New version of Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents

Reporters Without Borders (en.rsf.org) is making a new version of its Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents available to bloggers.

The handbook offers practical advice and techniques on how to create a blog, make entries and get the blog to show up in search engine results. It gives clear explanations about blogging for all those whose online freedom of expression is subject to restrictions, and it shows how to sidestep the censorship measures imposed by certain governments, with a practical example that demonstrates the use of the censorship circumvention software Tor.

Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents

Six essential digital publishing tools for journalists & Blogers

There are many digital tools out there a journalist can use today, but only a handful are essential. Emmy award-winning journalist and ICFJ trainer Patricio Espinoza shares a few he uses on a daily basis.

It's the second in a four-part video series by Espinoza which includes basic digital tools for journalists and advice from journalism entrepreneurs.

ijnet.org/video/six-essential-digital-publishing-tools-journalists

This video is also available in Spanish.

Progressives Guide

to Social Media

Intro

This is the first in a series of short articles that are intended to help grassroots activists better utilize social media websites. These are the definitive and comprehensive guides for progressives. Every week after the Intro, there will be a new guide published about how to more effectively use Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Other Sites, and on Advanced Strategies.

Advanced Strategies

This is the ninth in a series of short articles that are intended to help grassroots activists better utilize social media websites. These are the definitive and comprehensive guides for progressives.

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