Tech Savvy 101 is a series of posts designed to help demystify some terminology so you can get your brain around what it really takes to start getting your tech savvy on.
No matter if you’re just starting out with your web presence or wanting to do better with, using a blogging platform to do it really is smart, whether you want your web presence to look like a traditional website or you are actually considering doning the title “blogger.” Today we explore more about content, blogging and getting your tech savvy on!
Where You Are Now
You are comfortable with sending/creating email, downloading attachments, working with your browser (maybe even using multiple tabs), cutting and pasting content in a Word document and uploading images to Facebook (ok, maybe you still need some help with that). You need cost-effective website that you can update and maintain yourself.
Yet when you think of doing anything remotely technological in nature like getting your web presence on, something in your brain goes haywire (thank you fear) as a mania of thoughts… that lead to questions, and more questions, many of which you cannot answer. Eeeek!
Luckily for you, I hand you my “Get Out of TechnoRut-No-Webbo-Stuffo Jail Card” that says, in tiny printing on the bottom, “eLearning for smart ambitious women who have something important to give the world and need a web presence to do it with!” Optional is this paper bag to help keep you from hyperventilating because your spazzed out mind chatter hijacked reason and self confidence and has you thinking it’s impossible to even consider this.
So deep breathing, in, out, into the paperbag…
Blogger is best because it will loan you a domain name and host your web stuff for you, (for free)! All you need to do is write your content (no unfortunately, it doesn’t do it all).
Content
Imagine having all your web-how-to stuff just not be an issue any longer. Then what would you focus on for your self or business and your web presence?
Everyone needs content for a web presence (no exemptions: beginner or intermediately tech savvy). And having a place to gather it all up and get it smoothed out is a huge creation step in creating your web presence.
Content is the most important part of getting your web presence on. Learning to write it and write it well, so your people resonate with it when they read it. It becomes an art after you do it for a while. You just need some support to get started (and probably in the practicing department too). And even if you do have an idea of what to say, once you write it a thousand different ways and practice putting your heart and soul into (like MarkSilver at HeartofBusiness.com is teaching me) and pressing the publishing button over and over, you grow in ways you couldn’t imagine.
Special Bonus: Bloggy Training
Plus, Blogger is like a blogging training ground. Learn all the nuances of getting your blogging on like creating content, moving things around on your pages, maybe even selling your products or services. All the tools & skills you learn you take with you if you decide it’s time to stretch your tech savvy skills again… in the very near future. Because you and your business do keep growing.
What If I’m Intermediately Tech Savvy?
And not a beginner? The tools and skills you learn to get your Blogger on are going to transfer to getting your next Tech Savvy thing. If you feel like Blogger isn’t offering you enough customization and options, you can graduate to the creme-de-la-creme of getting your blogging on which is, in my humble opinion, Wordpress (specifically using the seo-ready theme Thesis).
Don’t worry though. All the content you create using Blogger can be brought over via import. Select content, click Import. Hard as it gets.
And that is why I think Blogger is one of the best places to begin. And I heart Wordpress too (you are reading this very post on a Wordpress blog, just FYI). And not everyone is ready for Wordpress right away. They need a little smaller step first. That really contains one of the biggest steps you could ever take for your web presence, which is creating the content, or writing.
Ready to begin your own web presence? It’s one of my thangs I do on the web; help women get their tech-savvy on.
More tech-savvy essentials here. This time, the search for the perfect look and feel.
