Who, What, Where, When, Why & How = Five W’s and an H.

Found in every news article around the world, usually in the first paragraph or two, you will see the answers to the following questions:

Who
What
Where
When
Why
How

These simple questions should get the ball rolling when starting a blog or forum entry.

Here, I am going to give it a shot:

My name is Richard; I am an IBT Communications Worker in Washington, DC who returned from Florida this morning with an interest in sharing basic journalism skills with fellow school bus and transit workers around the world. My goal is get folks telling their story so we can spread the word that, together, we are forming a union and joining the Teamsters.

Who=Richard
What= Worker
Where = Washington, DC
When = The date this is being posted and when I returned from Florida
Why = To share basic journalistic skills with school bus and transit workers
How = By way of this website and the Teamsters Union. (First ‘how’ is how am I fulfilling my interest in sharing this information, the second ‘how’ is about the workers organizing a union with the Teamsters).

Feel free to give this a shot when creating a story for the website, maybe it will help.

Rich,

Where is Hodgkins Blog?

Rich Keefner

It was removed. A group of people made this decision, which was contemplated for a while -- it is not that random, or as random as it might have seemed.