BLOGS & BLOGGING

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What is a Blog?

- a Blog is an abbreviated word used for term “Weblog“, This is a word used to describe different type of Websites and Portals which share information on specific topics or wider categories. It usually includes Features like Blog Posts, Videos, Comments, Links to other websites, Widgets, etc.

What is Blogging?

- each and every skill you need to run and manage a Blog is called blogging. Blogging includes Skills Like Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing, Writing, Editing and Publishing Posts, Designing and Maintaining the Design of your Website, etc.

Variations of the term blog :

• Blogging: The act of writing a post for a blog

• Blogger: A person who writes content for a blog

• Blogosphere: The online community of blogs and bloggers

Two common ways to subscribe to a blog

•Email: Some blogs allow users to subscribe by simply entering their email address (and then confirming a validating email message sent to them).

RSS: Another common technique for subscribing to a blog is to subscribe to an RSS Feed. An RSS Feed directs the blog, or a summary and link to it, to a special place where you can go and view it (as opposed to having it go to your crowded email In Box). While it may take a little investment in time to learn about this for first timers, once you are familiar with it you can easily use the process to subscribe to other blogs.

What is RSS?RSS is a technology that is being used

by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites.

In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added.

The other significant characteristics of today’s blogs are:

• a blog has some form of navigation, usually menus• a blog’s layout contains a header, footer and content.  Usually

there is at least one sidebar running beside the content.• categories of posts• that readers can access the archives, previous posts• that a post can contain text and images, (and often video and

other media)• that posts can contain links to other posts, both within blog and

to the entire web• should contain a contact page and form• should contain an about page

A Blog for Communication

A blog, with a lot of work, is a very effective way of reaching out and communicate with a sizable audience from these billions.  You may want them to just to come and read your personal thoughts; you may want to inform people; you may want to tell them about your campaign; you may want to attract potential customers to your services or business; you may want to sell them something.

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