Recommendations

It's great to read the posts from you all and although I don't want to add even more geek stuff into the mix for anyone finding it difficult enough starting blogging, I did want to point to two sites I find really useful...

• Ning is great if you want to create a club or private community of bloggers all blogging together. Someone on the night asked about this specifically. We could have used it for this project but in most cases I think ownership of your words, choosing a name, being in control is your design, brand is so important that individual blogs are better.

• Stikipad is a great wiki tool that is free. I use it on lots of projects and for a small fee you can edit the templates making it look just the way you want. It is great for planning or working on texts collaboratively. I find wikis are great tools to think about complex things with... or to put it another way, have a play and see if you like it. It has a nice WYSIWYG editor that you need to turn on in the settings.
  

Don't worry if none of that made any sense...

You have been added...

I've added all the new blogs to the Guild's blog blogroll. As you'll see, I've used your names rather than your blog names (unless you're blogging anonymously) but I can change that if you want.

25 Words or Fewer

Welcome aboard to three more Writers Guild bloggers (Paul, Dom and Dom). To see a list of recent blog articles, bookmark this page, or even better, subscribe to it with your RSS Newsreader of choice.

Blog names

Good to see some blogs created already. Droid Rage is winning the prize for best name, I'd say (no idea who it's by or what it's about, though).

Here we are at the Writers Guild..

... Britannia St on the 19th of April. Tom Green, Danny Stack, Sophie Nicholls and Me, Tom Smith.

The evening got off to a challenging start because although connecting computers to a projector is always difficult, you have to have exactly the right connectors, I had a few but not the right one exactly... but connectors aside, we didn't even have a projector! And still the show went on...

So, for now, this is the central blog where you can find your fellow members' blogs.

I recommend that you subscribe to an online RSS feed reader, such as Rojo or Bloglines (and figure out how to add the bookmarlet tools to your browser toolbar to make subscribing a simple one-click task).

There are also free applications you can use like NetNewsWireLite (for mac) or FeedExplorer . There a huge list of other alternative RSS readers to try here. To subscribe to ALL the members blogs in one feed use this RSS URL, http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=gqNBsEzw2xG1PaxoEpPZnA