BLOG BLOG BLOG And what in the world is it a Blog? BLOG BLOG

DEFINING A BLOG A blog is a frequently updated online personal journal or diary. It is a place to express yourself to the world. A place to share your thoughts and your concerns about anything. In simple terms it is a piece of software which allows you to write an online diary on a website. Your last entry, called a post, is displayed on the front page, home page, of the site. The significance of the blog is that it is dynamic.  That is that it can handle be updated and it allows the visitor to communicate through the comment section attached to each individual post.

BLOG TERMS Blog (noun) – a journal or diary that is on the Internet. Blogger (noun) – a person who keeps a blog – Bloggers are revolutionizing the way news is shared. Blog (verb) – to write a blog – I am going to blog before breakfast this morning. Blogging (verb) – the action of writing a blog – Blogging is my way of sharing my concerns with the world.

WHY BLOGGING? Posting blogs on the web is a real and affective way to communicate to the world important information that happening around the world. This communication can reach global audiences that might have the same or different opinion about your posts. In fact today the blog can provide up-to-date news, technical information, celebrity scandal, business support, political rumour, helps run campaigns, gets people involved in volunteering, advice on investments as well as there being blogs on cooking, health, gardening, sport, blogging blogs and of course many personal blogs and quite a few strange blogs.

PLANNING A BLOG What information do I want to share? What exactly I want to tell the world? What effect do I want for my blog, to have on people?

PLANNING A BLOG BLOG TOPIC What is my blog about? What is the content going to be about? What information am I going to include? BLOG TOPIC How am I going to organize the blog? What restrictions am I going to include?