A col­lec­tion of links and point­ers to what I talked about with Suzi Steffen’s Reporting One class last Thursday.

WordPress

I men­tioned a cou­ple of things that may come in handy, includ­ing all the sup­port pages for WordPress.com. Those are a great place to find out how spe­cific fea­tures work and can help you get going again if you’re stuck on something.

There’s also a handy series of How-To videos at WordPress.tv. These cover every­thing from the basics to more advanced edit­ing options. There are also a series of videos on the WordPress.tv home­page if you’re inter­ested in watch­ing talks given at WordCamps around the world.

After the Deadline

Great spell, style, and gram­mar checker that is baked into all WordPress.com blogs. You can also find exten­sions for Firefox, Google Chrome, and OpenOffice on ATD’s down­load page.

Podcast rec­om­men­da­tions

I men­tioned a cou­ple of pod­casts and wanted to add some spe­cific rec­om­men­da­tions for those interested.

5by5 is a stu­dio run by Dan Benjamin that pro­duces a great series of tech­nol­ogy and web-focused pod­casts. Many of the guests are not your typ­i­cal devel­op­ers as well. Some are in the edit­ing, design, or usabil­ity fields as well. The Pipeline is par­tic­u­larly good and the show with Liz Danzico may be inter­est­ing to those want­ing to improve their writ­ing or find out a bit how pro­fes­sional edi­tors work.

I also highly rec­om­mend any­thing from Merlin Mann. I men­tioned his Time & Attention talk in class and that’s really worth watch­ing if you’re won­der­ing the forces that come into play when envi­sion­ing how to get peo­ple con­sum­ing your content.

Danah Boyd is also some­one worth fol­low­ing if you’re inter­ested in how infor­ma­tion flows around the web. She gave a talk at the Web 2.0 Conference that is about 20 min­utes long and well worth lis­ten­ing to.

There was a lot more men­tioned too so if you have any ques­tions just shoot me an email. It’s andrewspit­tle at automattic.com.