Day twenty-six in the 30 Days to Being a Better Blogger series was yesterday and asked us to look at Day 26: Tag, you’re it . Essentially, Steve discussed what tags were, the importance of tags and using effective tags.
This was an easy one for me. On the external front, I have always tagged each entry with “virtual school”, “cyber school”, “high school” and “education” – as those were the places I wanted to show up in the Technorati searches. Beyond that I tag based upon the specific topic of the entry – usually including geographic tags, descriptive tags, organizational tags, tags for major events (e.g., conferences), etc.. I also use the same terms I use in my tags in the categories field in WordPress as well.
So, even if Technorati is showing me no love whatsoever (see Day Fifteen and Day Seventeen ), I’m still tagging…
UPDATE: Educator Announcements – November 26, 2008.
Thanks! I should let you know that the updated version is out in 2009 and has many more schools. It’s a very different world in (almost) 2009 than it was in 2006 when I wrote the first edition.
Comment by Tom Nixon — November 27, 2008 @ 5:14 pm | Reply
Voting For The Canadian Blog Awards.
Well, a few weeks back I mentioned the Canadian Blog Awards (see Canadian Blog Awards ). Jokingly I reminder folks that I was Canadian (I say jokingly because there wasn’t an education category and because much of my blogging content is not Canada – and lately is simply re-posts of things that people send me or things I find).
Anyway, it appears the joke is now on me as someone nominated me (and thanks to whomever that was).
The voting is available at:
Canadian Blog Awards – Vote 2008
You can find me under the Best Professional/Career Blog in the Lifestyle category. Polls for Round 1 close around the middle of Saturday, 29 November 2008 to give the folks at the Canadian Blog Awards time to count the votes and set-up the final round of voting.
So, since I’m there take a look at the other folks and if you feel I’m worth the click, by all means vote for Virtual High School Meanderings. And thanks in advance for your consideration.