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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Blogging *

Learn about blogging, from what it is to how to create and promote your own blog. Discover tools for consuming, finding, organizing, and producing blog content, as well as tracking usage.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Blogging *

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  1. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Blogging * *But were afraid to ask Jim Gaston Associate Director, SOCCCD IT

  2. New Stuff From District IT MySite 2.0 MAP New SIS

  3. Overview • What is a blog? • Consuming • Finding • Organizing/Subscribing (RSS) • Producing • Creating a blog • Creating blog postings • Promoting • Tracking Usage

  4. Web Sites http://del.icio.us/jgaston/blogs http://digitaledu.blogspot.com

  5. What is Blogging? • From Wikipedia: A blog is a user generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. • Derived from Web log • Began as online journals/diaries but has now evolved into a new form of media

  6. Impact of Blogs • Dan Rather, Mark Foley and Trent Lott • Daily Kos and Joseph Leiberman • Around 60 million blogs • Every Day: • 100,000 new blogs created • 1.3 million new postings

  7. Reading Blogs • Blog Index and Search • Technorati.com • Blogsearch.google.com • Search.blogger.com • Blogpulse.com

  8. Subscribing to Blogs • RSS (Really Simple Syndication) • A text file that contains updates to the content of a site • Often blogs will provide the entire text of a blog post in the feed • Latest browsers (IE7 and Firefox 2) have full RSS support • Called Live Bookmarks or Feeds

  9. Web Based RSS Readers • Reader.google.com • Bloglines.com

  10. Producing a Blog • Blogger.com • Wordpress.com • Edublogs.org

  11. Creating Content • Blog Posting • Adding images and video clips

  12. Promoting your blog • Register your blog with your favorite blog search sites (i.e. Technorati.com) • Link to other blogs • Post comments with a reference to your blog

  13. Tracking Usage • If you build it, will they come? • Site tracking • Sitemeter.com • Analytics.google.com • Sites will provide small section of JavaScript that you can copy and paste into your blog

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