Websites

Blogs, social networks and wiki

Did you know blogging? How to set up a blog? Some pieces of advise

• Blogs have been around for about 10 years.

• Everyone can set one up. And it is free!

• Most popular blog sites: WordPress, LiveJournal and Blogger.

•Your blog address is unique!

• Enter your details in “create account” using your Google account.

• You can allow people to comment or not.

• Write your entry, hit “publish” and that is it! As simple as that!

• Use the section for “tags” (words you want to associate with your blog)

• Think about the objective of your blog.

• How often can you put an entry up?

• It has to be well written. Remember: short sentences are better than long ones.

• Mention your subject as often as possible.

• Use images and videos that you own.

Blogs

Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Flickr Google+

• You can follow people.

• Exchange brief text-only

messages.

• Your followers might re-

tweet something you said.

• Great for asking

questions.

• You can upload

pictures,videos, play

games, among others.

• There are applications for reviewing

books and films, private messages and

open discussions.

• It is like Facebook for

business.

• You can contact and

keep in touch with

colleagues.

• You can upload and

share pictures.

• You can download and use

pictures on websites (few

copyright restrictions)

• Google+puts your

contacts in separate “circles”

Social Networks

Main features

• A wiki is a collaboration tool.

• The pages can be changed and instantly published.

• These pages are linked to each other.

• Page change notifications via email.

• Control user access and privileges.

• Page index and full text search.

• List and restore previous page versions

Wiki