The Wonderful Web

Lorelle VanFossen and Mark J Carter will be a guest instructors for the Blogging for Fun, Fame and Fortune Class at LVS Online. Blogging for Fun, Fame and Fortune is one of six classes that I am teaching next session for LVS Online, which begins on 8/29/09. The Blogging for Fun, Fame and Fortune course is different in the fact that it operates as a blogging studio for bloggers that want some structure as they learn to improve their blogs. Each week, written lessons are released and assignments given. Students can work through the lesson assigned or pick another lesson from the class wiki. Anything in the lesson or the wiki is fair game when it comes to students asking for assistance with their blogs. Instructor- student and student-student interaction  occurs on the class message board. Some students take the course once and get what they need. Other students come back again and again for updates, networking and support. Some of my students tell me they have a lifetime membership!

Since some of the students have been repeating this course for over a year, I wanted to make sure that they truly got some fresh content. I also wanted to offer them another perspective. I am so pleased that and Lorelle VanFossen, aka the Fairy Blog Mother, offered to be my first guest instructor!

Lorelle VanFossen has been around the WordPress and WordCamp map. She’s presented keynotes and programs at WordCamps in Israel, San Francisco, Hawaii, Dallas, Toronto, Whistler, Portland, and will be speaking in Holland, Israel, and other places in the world in the next few months. She is the host of the Lorelle on WordPress, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels, and a long time contributor to the Blog Herald. A web publishing consultant, she also serves as the editor-in-chief of Woopra, the hot new web analtyics program that is changing the web, and works with Bitwire Media and hosts the Liz and Lorelle Show podcast with Liz Strauss and featured contributor on WordCast, the WordPress podcast with Dave Moyer and Kym Huynh. Lorelle is the author of the fast-selling book, “Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging”.

Lorelle VanFossen will be a guest instructor, presenting the content for one of the lessons in this six week blogging studio. In addition to providing her expertise, insight and humor during the written lesson, Lorelle will be available that week of the course to answer your questions on the class message board. This is a great opportunity to interact with Lorelle and I am so grateful that she will be joining us this session. If one guest instructor was a good idea, than TWO guest instructors is even better! Mark J Carter will be joining us for two weeks as our second guest instructor.

Mark J Carter Bio:

My professional trainings, seminars consulting focus on bridging the gap between the offline world (traditional networking and networking events) and the online world (social media, Twitter, Facebook, blogs) to create pivotal and profitable relationships.

The organizations I’ve started focus on niche arenas in business (non-profits, social media, entrepreneurs) and have all used my social media and offline strategies to successfully grow into multiple cities.

Always looking to connect with like minded people interested in or involved with:

1) Non-Profits & Community Causes;

2) Entrepreneurs & Entrepreneurial Organizations:

3) Social Media Experts & People New to Social Media and

4) Mentoring Programs & Mentoring Organizations for College Students.

Carter and I have been involved in a number of projects together and we bring very different histories and perspectives to the table. Yet, we share passions together. Students will gain not only from the instructional material from both of us, but being part of the interaction with us. Mark will provide the majority of the content those two weeks and will be checking the messages boards those weeks to answer your questions about the material covered. Anita and I will be involved in answering questions, offering our perspective and and evaluating assignments.

Students will benefit this session, not only from the additional content that I will bring back from the WordCamps, but also from wealth of information and expertise of our guest instructors: Mark J Carter and Lorelle VanFossen.

Registration deadline is 8/26/09