Blogging: Intro, Videos and Links

by Peg Corwin on August 14, 2008

Sample Blog

What Is Blogging?
“A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.” Wikipedia

What Does This Look Like?
Some blogs look like this site — it’s a blog.  Here are two other samples.

ChicagoCondosOnline.blogspot.com
WomensBlog.score.org

Get Started Links

Blogs in Plain English (video) Common Craft.  Click the right arrow in the middle of the screen TWICE to play the video.

All About Blogging for Small Biz Web 2.0 for Small Biz

How Blogs Work How Stuff Works

Free Blogging Software Sites:

Wordpress.com It’s free.  Wordpress How-To video

Blogger.com It’s free.  Blogger’s how-to video

See this link for a table comparing features of Wordpress and Blogger

More Info:
Blog-a-Thon: Your Company’s Blog Should Be One of Your Strongest Marketing Tools, so Get Talking Entrepreneur

Blogging Wikipedia

Introduction to Niche Blogging Dosh Dosh

Have you started blogging yet?  In either case, please leave us a comment.

All my Delicious links on Blogging

This is one post in my Online Marketing Series, which has 20 link-rich posts on 18 online marketing techniques.

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