{"id":161,"date":"2013-04-22T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T14:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devbbsis.local\/?p=161"},"modified":"2013-04-22T10:24:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T14:24:11","slug":"how-to-start-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharpinnovationsolutions.ca\/blog\/how-to-start-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start a Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Way back in 2007 I wrote a blog post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/blog\/?p=77\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starting to Blog<\/a>. It is time for an update because one of the links has been broken by other web site updates and there is now new web site information. 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Continuity is important as lack of updates is a quick way to see if information is stale and hasn&#8217;t been given attention recently.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to Lisa Addington for bringing to my attention an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/startbloggingonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;How to Start a Blog&#8221; site<\/a> that is getting regular active updates.<\/p>\n<p>BTW: I fixed the link in the old article because it just might be used again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 2007 I wrote a blog post about Starting to Blog. It is time for an update because one of the links has been broken by other web site updates and there is now new web site information. 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