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Identifying Your True Audience

A blog shouldn’t be a place for internal “news” that only staff care about. If the content doesn’t provide immediate value to a student, they won’t read it. Use the Related Posts feature to guide students through a journey of information that solves a specific problem they have.

Lesson: Write for the student’s needs, not for the department’s desire to announce things.