A blog is an abbreviation of the term "web log" it is a type of website, which is usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of comments. A blog is something is a website where you post things on. The postings can be anything such as videos, music or your own personal thoughts about anything.
The blogging in my opinion were a great assignment which we had to do, because before this I had no clue on how to use a blog at all. During this assignment its given me a chance to learn a new technique which i will definately going to use this in the future.
Blogs are an excellent opportunity to learn about many different things in life or subjects such as marketing. Blogs are internet based and give you the opportunity to be creative and use different tools to make great blogs. They are an affective learning tool which is fun and a personal way of learning different topics, in this subject or others. Blogs can help to create a different life for people and help them learn new techniques to use in the future.
The tool used to create this blog was www.blogger.com. This is a very interesting and easy tool to use to create an affective blog. Because this gives you the opportunity to be creative in how you express yourself in each blog through the use of pictures, videos and music.
Using blogs to teach and learn are very effective because not only are you able to gain a lot of information through the words, there is also the chance to use videos from sites such as www.youtube.com to try and get your message across.
The use of blogs has increases throughout the marketing world and many people now use blogging as a tool to get their messages across. Blogs have exploded on the Web because they have made it much easier to publish content online. Blogging software makes it as easy to publish content online as it is to write a note to post on your fridge. (Infotoday 2010)
Using blogs is very simple to do as it teaches you how to link from one page to another and also shows you how to add videos. Signing up for a blog account is easy to do as it takes less than 3 minutes and in some cases most blogs are free to use.
Creating a blog and maintaining it is much easier to do than running a website. Blogs have the ability to automatically archive old posts and refresh the content of the main page, like using live feeds. Blogs have grown really quickly in the blogging community thanks to the help of easily linking your blog to other sites. Everyone likes to receive feedback on how well their blog is doing and what they can do to improve, blogs can receive instant feedback from people who have visited the blog.
The strengths of using blogs were that it is an easy way for you to basically create a website without doing the boring middle stuff to maintain it. Blogs give you the chance to receive instant feedback from other followers of your blog and gives you the chance to link your blog to others.
Another strength is that blogs give you the chance to revise things you have learnt before. For example when students come out of a lecture they tend to forget what they had done so they use the blogs to remember and catch up on work they had missed.
Blogs teach you how to embed videos and make it really simple to use.
A weakness that blogs has is that it can become repetitive and so continuously doing a blog can become boring and a waste of time.
I found blogging fun and a good laugh in comparison to assignments just on their own (there as boring as hell) Blogs taught me how to imbed videos and follow and comment on other peoples blogs. this gave me a chance to be creative and express myself better.
Blogs help to get a personal point across for the person using them and gives them a chance to experience how to use blogs in their own way.
Using blogs gives the chance to use many different tools such as adding images and embedding videos. Many things were learnt from using blogs and if given another task it would be great to use blogs to demonstrate points.
At first using blogs was a bit difficult in terms of adding videos; however that was learnt and improved as the assignment continued. Blogs have given people a whole new way of using their skills and knowledge to share with others on marketing subjects or any other subjects.
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