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Community of English Language Teachers Blogging
A community for those blogging about English language learning and teaching.
About BELTfree
Interested in joining our private group but you're not sure about the criteria...
We're
a) English Language Teaching Professionals
b) Bloggers with a minimum of 3 months experience and at least 10 posts
c) Freelancers
More here: What is BELTfree?
Are you NEW here? Read this page please and welcome to BELTFree ;-)
NOTE. to communicate with a specific blogger, write on their walls and not on your own! :-)
LOOK FOR:
We're
a) English Language Teaching Professionals
b) Bloggers with a minimum of 3 months experience and at least 10 posts
c) Freelancers
More here: What is BELTfree?
NOTE. to communicate with a specific blogger, write on their walls and not on your own! :-)
LOOK FOR:
Whenever you're here...
Check out the bar of members' pics- notice anyone new?
Say hey, welcome them in, ask if they need help with anything or generally just make the connect!
Check out their page and visit their blog, are they writing similar stuff to your own? Want to invite them into one of the sub-groups so you can work on something together there?
Is there an outstanding question you might be able to help with in the forum?
Do you need to make a call-out for help, teach us all something cool or spread the news about something? Add a blog post.
And newbies - you can do a search on the members page for like-minded bELTrs /or check the group page;-)
Say hey, welcome them in, ask if they need help with anything or generally just make the connect!
Check out their page and visit their blog, are they writing similar stuff to your own? Want to invite them into one of the sub-groups so you can work on something together there?
Is there an outstanding question you might be able to help with in the forum?
Do you need to make a call-out for help, teach us all something cool or spread the news about something? Add a blog post.
And newbies - you can do a search on the members page for like-minded bELTrs /or check the group page;-)
SHARED DOCS FOR BELTfree
Excellent report written about creating a financially successful blog, full of practical advice:
279days.pdf
279days.pdf
GENERAL NOTICES
General
*Don't forget to set up your RSS feed(s) at the top of 'your' page so that it's easy to see what you've been writing about and visit you.
*Join as many of the niche groups on the side as fit the type of blogging that you do - so that you can meet others doing the same as you are.
*Introduce yourselves and make friends ;-). Ask questions, answer questions in the 'groups' or forums. Tell each other what you like about their blogs!
*Promote your work: list a recent piece you've written that you think others in your niche might be interested in and post links on the comment walls - if you want to promote several things to all members, do a 'blog' post and list them there.
Share. Learn. Teach. Grow.
Emails
If you've joined a lot of groups you may get lots of emails -don't hesitate to change the notifications in the 'privacy' section. Or click on 'stop following' if there's something you don't want to follow - however do make sure to regularly check your groups/page/inbox when back in.
*Don't forget to set up your RSS feed(s) at the top of 'your' page so that it's easy to see what you've been writing about and visit you.
*Join as many of the niche groups on the side as fit the type of blogging that you do - so that you can meet others doing the same as you are.
*Introduce yourselves and make friends ;-). Ask questions, answer questions in the 'groups' or forums. Tell each other what you like about their blogs!
*Promote your work: list a recent piece you've written that you think others in your niche might be interested in and post links on the comment walls - if you want to promote several things to all members, do a 'blog' post and list them there.
Share. Learn. Teach. Grow.
Emails
If you've joined a lot of groups you may get lots of emails -don't hesitate to change the notifications in the 'privacy' section. Or click on 'stop following' if there's something you don't want to follow - however do make sure to regularly check your groups/page/inbox when back in.
The Funky Golden Trousers Award
September's awards without a belt will be for the TECH Guru:
To visit their pages on here or their blogs: see here
Confused what this discussion is about?
Come along and find out what the Monthly Funky Trousers Awards are...
Our Blogs
We're moving soon...
Or are we..? I know I have kept saying that for nigh-on-a-year but unfortunately I still haven't found a good, safe place for us to go to that offers all the benefits of this Ning...and doesn't cost much.
I know we lost the group function though :-( which is a bit of a bummer....still for now, it seems worth it to stay here... What do you think?
How could we kick-start this community again? Would you like to become co-moderator? Does anyone have any tips for making this community work well together again?
Talk soon,
Karenne
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Look forward to getting the book and doing a nice impartial review for you...
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