Nancy Pelosi Offers Blogging Tips

Posted on April 21, 2006

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) offered some blog tips for fellow Democrats on her democraticleader.house.gov site on house.gov. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) noticed Pelosi's Blogging 101 and quickly blogged that five of the seven blogs Pelosi recommended as examples were Republican blogs. Raw Story has an article on the tips that includes some funny back and forth between spokespersons for Pelosi and Kington. Raw Story also listed one of Pelosi's tips -- "blog often" -- which is a good tip and something experienced bloggers do.

Pelosi says, "The most important thing is to blog often. Posts do not need to be extensive or long. It can be as simple as, 'I found this article on the budget in the Washington Post today very interesting. Click here to read.'"

Raw Story suggests that one reason why Pelosi linked to so many Republican blogs is because few House Democrats were blogging at the time.

Another Pelosi tip is that blogging requires a tough skin. Pelosi says, "Many members are concerned that when they post on an existing blog they will receive comments that they are not in control of. The long and the short of it is, they're right. It's part of the community and you can't worry about it."

A tough skin is definitely required if you want to enter the political blogosphere. The blog trolls will come for you. The blog tips have since been removed from Pelosi's website.