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Blogging

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on February 18, 2010 at 5:58:13 pm
 

 

What is Blogging (30 min)

 

A blog is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

 

Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.

 

The term "blog" is a contraction of "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. (Wikipedia)

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Blog software comparison chart (OLD)

 

Free Blogging Sites

Favorite Features: customizable header, email posts, java in sidebar, can add authors, make blog private

Dislikes: Boring themes, Can't add pages, only way to connect blogs with students is by adding them to a links list in sidebar

Favorite Features: customizable header, cool themes, blog and feed stats, add pages

Dislikes: Limited customization, no java in sidebar, only way to connect blogs with students is by adding them to a links list in sidebar

Favorite Features: Friends pages, moblogging, voice posts, built-in IM (Talk), Text messaging, photo scrapbook, poll creation, post via email,

Dislikes: Ads in free version, $20 a year for full features, difficult to learn, No Odeo

 

Inexpensive Blogging Sites

 

Moblogging & Micro-blogging

Microblogging is a web service that allows the subscriber to broadcast short messages to other subscribers of the service. Microposts can be made public on a Web site and/or distributed to a private group of subscribers. Subscribers can read microblog posts online or request that updates be delivered in real time to their desktop as an instant message or sent to a mobile device as an SMS text message (Wikipedia). Moblogging (short for “Mobile Blogging”) is, just as the name implies, the concept of blogging on the go. Both are similar but there is a broad range of services and uses, all the way from Twitter, 140 character short burst of information to friends, to Tumblr, which can function and look like a full blog.

  • Twitter - a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time.
  • Utterz - Using your mobile phone with Utterz, you can post videos and pictures directly to your blog, YouTube, Flickr and more, giving people real-time access to your activities.
  • Tumblr - a variation on traditional blogging that favors very short, mixed media posts with little or no commentary. There are 6 distinct types of posts that have their own visual format: a "traditional" blog post, a photo, a quote, a single link, a conversational transcript, and a video.
  • Posterous - the simplest blogging platform to date. Just email something to post@posterous.com. You’re done. Easily send photos and video from your mobile phote.

Why Posterous wins? You can choose to have comments emailed to you, and you can reply to the comment by simply responding back to the email. Post from your mobile device.

 

My Example Blogs

(6:30pm)


Getting Started with Blogger (2 hrs)

 

Register & Set Up (30 min)

  • Register for a Blogger (Google) account - http://blogger.com
  • Create your Blog
  • Create a Blog Post

(7:00pm)

Break (5 min)

 

Overview of Dashboard & Settings (40 min)

  • Creating New Blogs
  • Update Profile
  • Update Blog Information (Basic tab)
  • Update Publishing, Formatting, Comments, & Archiving tabs

 

Posting Options (20 min)

 

Break (5 min) at 8:05pm

(8:00pm)

 

Add Gadgets (20 min)

In the Layout tab, you can find Page Elements where you can add gadgets.

  • Add a Gadget to the Sidebar- My Blog List
  • Add a Gadget to the Bottom
  • Add Blogs to your Blog List - Follow Other Blogger Blogs

 

Promoting Your Blog (30 min)

Burn Your Feed

  • Visit Feedburner: http://feedburner.com
  • Grab your Posts (Atom) feed from your blog (bottom of the posts)
  • Paste into Feedburner (Burn your feed)

  • Activate Email Subscriptions
  • Add Widget (Gadget) to Blogger Blog

 

 

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