Despite the mistakes I’ve committed so far, blogging hasn’t been the life-threatening experience I thought it could be, not with the help of some positive rules I’ve adopted. Here they are, My Personal Blogging Guidelines.

I SHOULD:

1. Come up with a catchy title.

2. Customize for HEdCen community. Mention specific teachers, students, events, etc. Include football, ecology and other HEdCen concerns.

3. Embed reference links such as The Core Rules of Netiquette. (See Blogging Tips 101 tutorial on how to create hyperlinks.)

4. Give information and tips for newbs (short for newbies, or newcomers to cyberspace).

5. Poke fun at myself.

6. Use the active voice.

7. Include English grammar rules and examples. Check the dictionary for definitions and the thesaurus for synonyms and antonyms.

8. Italicize lahat ng Filipino words.

9. Put HEdCen.com in bold font.

10. Coin a new catchword or phrase, e.g. Hedless Mutants, Our Third Home.

11. Edit, edit, and then edit again. And again.

12. Insert emoticons only when necessary, because they’re baldies like me, and cute (not like me).

13. Include Study Guide and Review Questions.

14. Post a fake or genuine Online Survey once in a while.

15. Have Related and Referenced Links at the end, even non-existent ones for HEdCen people mentioned.

16. Edit, edit, then edit again. And again. And a couple of times more, ‘til I believe it’s the best it can be, given the limits of my skill and talent.

Please feel free to accept, adopt, modify, use, or not use, any, several or all of the above. A few aren’t new (nos. 1, 6, and 11 have been around for decades); some have evolved in recent times (nos. 3, 4, 12, the second part of 14, and the first part of 15). Nos. 4 and 7 lend an air of legitimacy to my HEdCen.com posts, while most of the rest are quirks I just enjoy. And finally, there’s just no escaping two of the Guidelines (actually just one, the repetition at no. 16 was upon the insistence of my OC persona, who hovers over my shoulder every time I write).

So go start your own blog and have fun!

Posted in: Uncategorized | | April 2007