Blogs on the Job

Targeting your audience involves

• knowing your audience

• attention grabbing headines

• making it easy for readers to respond

• providing firsthand information

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Making your blog persuasive means doing which of the following?

• making sure the first paragraph tells why

• providing firsthand info

• highlighting new features, improvements or specials

• including the date and time of each post

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This kind of blog is seen only by people inside the organization.

• Internal

• External

This kind of blog is used to tell the businesses side of the story and is seen quickly and publicly

• Internal

• External

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To write concisely and sincerely, your blog posts should

• be short

• be easy to read

• conversational style

• documented

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What should you document in your blog posts?

• statistics

• illustrations

• quotes

• public domain knowledge

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What combo of words does our "blog" come from originally?

• web

• log

• video

• bulletin

Blogs can be powerful communication tools for

• employees

• managers

• customers

• aliens

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To write a successful blog, you have to

• attract readers

• build relationships

• promote & market products

• respond to comments & suggestions

Blogs are

• written in chronological order

• dated

• titled

• archived