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What is a BLOG?

Also visit the page about using blogs for web sites.

• Short for “Web log,” a specialized site that allows an individual or group of individuals to share a running conversation of events and personal insights with online audiences.

This short video explains it in plain English.

1. Connect with innovators.
2. Group brainstorming.
3. You heard it here first.

How to read a blog:

1. Visit each blog.
2. Use a RSS reader (news aggregator) such as Google Reader, Bloglines or My Yahoo.

What is RSS?

• RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. An XML-based system for aggregating and rapidly scanning information from blogs, news and current event Web sites, and other Web sites that update content frequently.

Other uses for RSS:

• Monitor the Web by creating your own feeds using sites like Google News or YouTube. For example, every time a video is posted to YouTube that is tagged with UWGB you will be notified.

How to find a blog:

1. Use a Blog Search Engine such as Google Blog Search, Technorati, Ice Rocket
2. Use a standard search engine like Google and search a topic along with the word blog. For example: university, judicial, student, blog will find you The Judicial Affairs Blog

Starting YOUR blog:

1. Blogger
2. Wordpress
3. UWGB Blogging Software (WordPress) – available in spring 2008, currently in pilot

Blog Examples:

Current UWGB Blogs

• Phoenix Folk (Blogger)
• The Pink Flamingo
• Europe in the 19th Century
• Faculty & Staff Campaign
• Academic Staff Committee
• The Log (example only)
• The GBblog

Professional

• Photoshop Insider
• CSS Beauty
• MStoner

News

• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Chronicle of Higher Education – Wired Campus

Educational

• MIT Admissions
• Ball State Current Students
• Dartmouth Alumni

Personal Interests & Hobbies

• Autos
• Sketching
• Knitting
• Photography

Vlogs

• Stuff2Do
• Webb Alert
• Rocketboom
• Photoshop User TV

Odd

• Pencil Revolution
• The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

This information was presented by Paula Ganyard and Todd Sanders for an Academic Staff Professional Development workshop on Nov. 20, 2007.

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