there are some things you need to do first before you post that first article,
WHAT do you want your blog to be about?
Technology?
WHY are you writing a blog?
To share your expertise?
To help others?
here's what you need to do next.
there's someone already writing
Do your homework.
about it
A serious blogger has their own website and full control of what is posted
Do whatever you can to customize the standard WordPress themes.
Did you snore through high school English? Good bloggers write well;
Post consistently.
This might mean once a week, several times a week or even daily
Those other bloggers you've been interacting with? Invite them to guest post on your blog.
be a guest poster
Promote, promote, promote!
In a land of 100 million blogs, you need to do a little shouting from the rooftops to get heard
If you treat blogging as a serious method of communication, you'll soon start to see the reward in terms of increased readers and worthwhile comments coming in.
Thirty percent of high school students and 19 percent of middle schoolers took at least one online class in 2010, according to a 2011 report sponsored by the national nonprofit group Project Tomorrow
Scheduling flexibility, control over their own learning and the ability to work at their own pace were the top benefits cited by students who had taken virtual courses.
Twitter hashtags can connect you to people and conversations all over the world …
The Hashtag: A Door to Discovery on Twitter
The hashtag has a metadata value. This means that all the content and conversations using hashtags can be discovered, mined and organized through search.