1. BLOGGING Is that really a word?

3. A SHORT HISTORY  It began as WEB LOG  Two professors from Bond University in Australia introduced the term in 1995 at a conference introducing their paper “Exploiting the World-Wide Web for Electronic Meeting Document Analysis and Management””

4.  the paper itself was aimed at the recording of electronic meetings, but the processes described what blogs evolved into and the term web log stuck.

5.  Popular use of the term Weblog as we know it today cam from Jorn Barger of the weblog Robot Wisdom (robotwisdom.com) in December 1997

6.  The origins of modern blogging are argued about almost as much as the question….What is blogging?  One thing is for sure blogs began as websites or webpages that provided links and comments to other pages, and its is from this basis that modern blogs emerged.

7.  In November 1998, Cameron Barrett published the first list of blog sites on Camworld.

8.  In early 1999 Peter Merholz coins the term blog after announcing he was going to pronounce web blogs as “wee-blog”, that was then shortened to blog.

9.  As blogging started to grow in 1999, the first portal dedicated to listing blogs was launched, Brigitte Eaton launched the Eatonweb Portal. Eaton evaluated all submissions by a simple assessment that the site consist of dated entries, one of the criteria used today when identifying a blog.

10.  In May 1999, Scott Rosenberg at Salon.com writes one of the first media articles on the emergence of weblogs and refers to the growing number of “Web Journalists”.

11.  In August 1999, Pyra Labs, today owned by Google, launches the free Blogger blogging service, that for the first time provides an easy set of tools for anyone to set up a blog. Other services launched around the same time include Pitas and Groksoup.

13. FOR EVERY SEASON… Why people write blogs …….well for anything:  Let the world know what you think even if no one caresworld  advertising advertising  Make moneymoney  Information Information  ASSESSMENT  The list goes on and on

14. REMEMBER…  It takes some time to maintain a blog so only set one up f you really have a stake in what you are putting out there.

15. FREE BLOG SITES  http://www.blogger.com/home http://www.blogger.com/home  http://wordpress.com/ http://wordpress.com/  http://www.weebly.com/ http://www.weebly.com/

16.  More than 40 free sites for making a blog are listed here:  http://mashable.com/2007/08/06/free-blog-hosts/ http://mashable.com/2007/08/06/free-blog-hosts/

17.  If you want a copy of this PowerPoint information go to amoalf.com and look for the button that says Blogging workshop. I have all information there for you to download.