A New Blog for women

shlucha16 ↓

Sat, Nov 12 2011, 8:04 pm

Hi ladies,
I have a school project to create a blog, so I have made one disscussing all types of things from the presepective of a frum woman.
I would love it if you would log in and post a comment, that is how I am getting graded by reader participation!
I also would love imput about what I should write about
This is my first attempt at such a thing and I hope to get better with time
thanks!
www.contemporaryjewishwoman.blogspot.com

↑ zaq

Sat, Nov 12 2011, 9:05 pm

Shlucha 16, what kind of class is this project for? is it something computer-related? Unless it's something to do with publicity, advertising, political lobbying and the like, it hardly seems fair to grade you based on how many people comment.

shalhevet

Sun, Nov 13 2011, 2:02 am

I hope you will take this as constructive criticism, and I only read the latest post, but I suggest you get someone to check what your write for spelling and grammatical mistakes, as well as the flow of the writing. (Maybe some people think Doctors are G-d, but we consider them doctors.)

PinkFridge

Sun, Nov 13 2011, 5:14 am

Hatzlacha. Sorry I can't help at the moment but a quick thought re large families. Some years ago I shared some ideas on this from an article by R' Avi Shafran in The Jewish Woman's Outlook called "Never Too Many" with a gentile woman who I met on a medical support list. She told me that though she was a Buddhist (American born, white bread midwest) those thoughts led her to decide to have baby number three Confused

- Not sure how I should have felt about that Tongue Out

shabbatiscoming

Sun, Nov 13 2011, 5:41 am

shalhevet wrote:

I have to agree with shalhevet. There are many grammar and spelling mistakes and it makes it a little bit hard to read the blog (saying this as constructive criticism) maybe you should find someone to polish that area of the blog.

Yocheved84 ↓

Sun, Nov 13 2011, 7:37 am

The blog doesn't say it's for school. We had an issue on here about blogs a few months ago about promotion of blogs unrelated to school projects. Could you tell us more? Then, I'd be happy to post. I'm sorry that many of us are skeptical, but this stems from the 'blogsplosion' we had over the summer. In addition, I would definitely use a spell/grammar check, available on Microsoft Word, before posting. Your professor might grade you on this, as other posters have noted.

GreenEyes26

Sun, Nov 13 2011, 7:46 am

I smell something fishy. In the OP's signature it says that she has 1 child with 1 on the way. But on her blog, she says she has 3 children with another on the way. Also, she has 2 posts and is already promoting her blog. I call.......well, you know what I call.

de_goldy

Sun, Nov 13 2011, 7:50 am

GreenEyes26 wrote:

I agree that promoting a blog when you only have a few posts is tacky at best - but re the kids, she joined the site almost 3 years ago so if her signature is from then, it's entirely possible that she has another 2 kids now.

↑ shlucha16

Sun, Nov 13 2011, 11:07 am

Thanks for the constructive criticism, I agree with the spelling and grammer issue, will work on that, posting at 12am doesn’t help!
I also asked b4 I posted about it, but thanks for the concern.
It is for a social media class and we are basically being graded on how we promote our project (like facebook, twitter, niche tools ect) , and how it is being received.
I took a leap of faith with a blog, other things would have been easier, I just never did a blog before so I put myself out there especially because I am pretty self conscious about writing stuff. I hope I get better at it.
Oh and as far as the profile goes, I updated that, although I don't usually keep the world posted about my kids, creeps me out in todays day, but here I guess is Ok
Again thanks for taking your time to say something!

↑ Yocheved84

Sun, Nov 13 2011, 11:14 am

shlucha16 wrote:

I certainly think that the feedback you received here will be invaluable, should you explain that you used a private message board forum to publicize your blog. You could then cite our responses (blacking out our names or otherwise coding us e.g. Response #1, #2, etc.). You could say that given our closed community, we first felt uncomfortable, that we felt that spelling and grammar contribute to a site being viewed as more legitimate or having more credibility in the information it provides, etc. (And perhaps there is a study that supports the second point.) My anecdotal evidence shows the importance of copy-editing; whenever I see an article riddled with copy mistakes, I am less apt to believe its information. It's unfortunate, but true. Thus, I think posting here was fabulous and will add depth to your assignment!

Mamale1

Wed, Nov 16 2011, 8:22 pm

I think it would be great to have a blog of ideas of
what to do with your children on Sundays. It should
be a day to chill but perhaps still to have fun doing something fun like crafts, or other activities with your children