Blogging Tips and Tricks by Sharon Greenaway

October Writers Explore – Sharon Greenaway
10th October 2011
The lives of 16 people will be even busier after attendinglast night’s BWC meeting as they begin to blog or revitalize their  existing skills in blogging. 
Many were sceptical about its usefulness but Sharon was convincing in her argument to writers that if you want people to read your work  regular blogging is an advantage, it presents you and your style of writing to the public – but only to those who read it.Therefore not only is it necessary to write on your blog, since it is chronological you should write regularly, for example, 2-4weekly but you must also alert people to the fact that you have a blog.
But I am ahead of myself. What is a blog? How do you set oneup?  Among other things these questions were answered while Sharon discussed and facilitated blog writing exercises.
Briefly, a blog is a network of communicating thoughts, happenings, news, facts, anything you choose, for either professional or social purposes on your own individual blogspot. It can be linked to a website and/or“advertised” through Facebook, Twitter, business cards, email etc.
Your free blogsite can be set up through www.blogger.com, an offshoot of google. Sharon suggests that a blog should be about 100-700 words and that any pictures attached ought to be converted to small pixels, say 500×500.
Your blog will be protected by a password with strong recommendation to remember it, retrieval is very time consuming.

Overall, I found the evening well worth the effort to attend, it was very informative and was facilitated at a comfortable pace.
Thank you Sharon & BWC.

–         Christine Haddrick. [1]
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An email from another member on the night:
“Hi Sharon,> Thank you for being our Writers Explore speaker. I know a lot of those
> that
> attended are keen after hearing from you, to start up their own blog
> [including myself] and I know of one that has already done so. She
> likened
> it to giving birth to a baby! Although I hope mine to be less
> excruitiating
> to initiate I hope I get the same sense of joy from the living product.
>
> Sorry that it may have taken a while for this message and the photo to
> come
> through – I thought I’d send the uncompressed file so that you have more
> scope to manipulate it as you would like. It is a lovely photo of you.
>
> All the best with everything Sharon and thanks again for the inspiration.
> Kylie
Kylie Hendy.

[1]Used with permission, first published in the Bendigo Writers Council Muse NewsNovember 2011.

Langley Hall Open House brings back memories

Nov 7, 2011 10:58am

Langley Hall in Napier Street Bendigo was open to the public for the last 3 Sundays as a fundraiser for the St John of God Horizon House, a project that aims to meet the long term needs of disadvantaged and homeless young people in order to break the cycle of homelessness that has beset these young people.

A trip back to the Hall was important for Mary and Ray Evans of Bendigo as they were married there in 1981. 

Bridget Gurry and her family opened the house as a fundraiser for Horizon House as she is involved in the Rising Light competition. Langley Hall was built in 1903 for the first Anglican Bishop of Bendigo, Henry Langley

Well Being Survey

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I have just completed the BENDIGO WELLBEING SURVEY.
It took about 15 minutes but it is fairly comprehensive and gives you a chance to send your views on how you are coping/enjoying/living in Bendigo and what you think should be the priorities of your council should be.
As outgoing Mayor CrFyffe said the City of Greater Bendigois undertaking the Bendigo Wellbeing survey to find out the community’sattitude to a range of wellbeing issues.
“Wellbeingis one of those things where we all know what we mean, but can’t quite put intowords.  It is hard to pin down exactlymakes us feel contented with our life but we are trying to understand whataffects our resident’s wellbeing, so if there are things we can change toimprove wellbeing we can prioritise them. This might be through strategies,programs or services,” said Cr Fyffe.
“Thesurvey results will provide a broad reaching wellbeing scorecard to understandwhat our community is most positive about, and what there should be moreof.  It also asks about people’sconcerns, areas of risk they identify and needs. The information will not onlyinform our own decision making, but will also give us powerful data to lobbyother levels of Govt about issues that are important to our community, but notnecessarily in Council’s control.
Thesurvey is open until November 30 and can be easily completed online at  www.bendigo.vic.gov.au Or printed copies are also availablefrom City of Greater Bendigooffices or by phoning  5434 6148. 
“Adetailed report of the results of the survey and other information includingthe census results will be prepared and made available to the community inearly 2012,” said Cr Fyffe. 
So if you want the council to know how you are living here, then fill in the survey, it is great that we live in a society where we can give our opinion freely.