The IT Girl's Guide to Blogging with Moxie

The IT Girl's Guides are the antidote to blah technical references that can poison women's enthusiasm for technology topics. Humorous expository text mixed with detailed exercises, real-world examples, relevant stories, and FAQs capitalizes on the initial attraction to draw in even casual readers.As the first-ever woman-focused technical reference, IT Girl's Guides incorporate the latest thinking about how women learn. The emphasis on authentic author voice invites empathy and encourages readers to see themselves in the text. Such self-identification is reinforced and enhanced by the presentation of other women's stories, challenges, and successes through engaging chapter elements and representations of real women.This abundance of personality provides multiple entry points for readers and addresses the audience's various approaches to learning. Like the women it aims to serve, the IT Girl's Guides series multitasks through the subject matter, covers lots of ground, and avoids the pitfall of boredom.In three distinct parts, The It Girl's Guide to Blogging helps readers Learn the technology skills needed to create a blog, Live with the technology (maintain their Web sites, bring in advanced features like RSS, add in podcasts and photos, and manage personal versus work-related blogs), and Love their new hobby: designing awe-inspiring pages that grab readers eyes, creating their own branded Web site, and writing and sydicating content readers really want.