Basics of Blogging and Resources
Basics of Blogging and Resources
Blogging is a very well-known term
nowadays though the history of “blog” or “blogging” is not so old.
Blogging started in early 1990s and within less than 15 years of its
birth, it has become a very popular and effective platform to express
personal thoughts as well as to carry out discussions regarding various
issues in the cyber space. However, blog stands for web log which is an
internet service and can be treated as an “online diary” where all the
entries are stored in a reverse chronological order. It allows the users
(known as bloggers) to post whatever they want to share with the
others.
What is Blog?
Initially, the idea behind blog was to
allow the users share their thoughts in the cyber space. But, by time
the use of blog has been diversified and use of blog for commercial
purposes has been started. So, at present blogs can be divided into two
major segments. The first type includes those used for sharing personal
thoughts and beliefs and merely has any commercial purpose. The contents
shared in this type of blogs may include personal experience, thoughts
and beliefs, discussion about sociopolitical issues etc. The other type,
that is, the professional or organizational blogs are solely used for
commercial purposes. These are used for publicity of kinds of products.
Advertisements and product reviews are posted in these blogs in order to
keep the consumers updated about the products. Also, the consumers can
learn about the pros and cons of a particular product from these blogs
before they go shopping for it.
How to Start a Blog.
Starting a blog is not a difficult thing to do now a days and both WordPress and blogger allows you the drag and drop facility and almost require zero coding or language knowledge. I have already written a series of articles mention below to set a new blog3 More Excellent Blogging Resources
There are unlimited amount of resources
and learning materiel available on internet that can help you build an
awesome blog but i am sharing just 3 external resources which can help
you alot.
- Blog Mastermind Blog Mentoring Program – one of the best coaching and training course going around on blogging.
- Become a Blogger Videos – a free series of videos that talks new bloggers through how to set up a blog. Easy to understand and best of all, free.
- Blog Profits Blueprint – a free report on how to build profitable blogs.
Whatever the purpose of the blog is,
responsibility of all the contents in a blog lies on the blogger. It
includes the comments left by the blogger as well as the viewers. So,
the blogger should make it very clear that no abuse will be tolerated
and should immediately remove all the annoying, abusive or offensive
comments. Also, the blog should be updated on a regular basis. Comments
and queries should be replied as soon as possible. Blogs shouldn’t be
used for spreading rumors. As the contents of the blog define the
blogger, those should be chosen carefully.
Blogging could really be a very exciting
endeavor. It provides the opportunity to evaluate a person’s thoughts
as well as to earn money.