2. Outline:
• What is blogs?
• History of blogs
• Advantage & Disadvantage
• Why blogs are so popular?
• Why blogs are powerful?
• How to creates your own blogs?
• Limitations
• How blogs work?
• Public policies of blogs
• Are blogs safety for users?
• Examples of Top blogs
3. What is a blog?
• It`s a personal journal published on the World wide web
consisting of discrete entries "posts” typically displayed
in reverse chronological order so the most recent post
appears first
• Also, they are usually the work of a single
individual, occasionally of a small group, and often are
themed on a single subject
4. History of blogs
• 1994 The first blog was Links.net, created by Justin Hall.
At that time they weren’t called blogs, and he just referred to
it as his personal homepage.
• 1997 “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger.
• 1999 “Weblog” was shortened to “blog” by programmer
Peter Merholz.
5. Advantages
• Freedom of speech.
• Share knowledge with other people.
• Make friends online.
• Can be used as diary.
6. Disadvantages
• Need to keep it constantly updated otherwise you lose
potential readers
• Easy to start, hard to maintain
7. Why blogs are so popular?
• Blogging is easy to start and maintain
• Blogs are very interactive
• Freedom to express your feelings
• Blogs are search engine friendly
• You can learn a lot from blogs
• Blogs are cost-effective
• Blogging is fun and for everyone
8. Why blogs are powerful?
• It is one of the simplest things to do on the internet
• A blog gives you an opportunity to build credibility
and a huge readership
• Blogging is also a very good internet marketing tool as
it is free.
10. Limitations
• Number of blogs = Unlimited.
• Size of pages = Individual pages (the main page of a blog or
archive pages) are limited to 1 MB.
• Number of labels = 2,000 unique labels per blog, 20 unique
labels per post.
• Number of pictures (hyperlinked from user's Picasa Web
Album) = Up to 1 GB of free storage.
• Size of pictures = If posted via Blogger Mobile, limited 250 KB
per picture; posted pictures are scaled to 800px.
• Team members (those that can write to a blog) = 100.
• Stand-Alone Page = Limited to 20 stand-alone pages.
11. How blogs work
• A blog is normally a single page of entries.
• A blog is organized in reverse-chronological order.
• A blog is normally public.
• The entries in a blog usually come from a single author.
• The entries in a blog are usually stream-of-consciousness.
• There is no particular order to them.
12. Public policies of blogs
It is different depend on the server of the blog In Google:
• Use information to provide our users with valuable
products and services
• Develop products that reflect strong privacy standards
and practices
• Make the collection of personal information transparent
• Give users meaningful choices to protect their privacy
• Be a responsible steward of the information we hold
13. How to blog safely?
• Use a Pseudonym and Don't Give Away Any Identifying Details
When you write about your workplace, be sure not to gave away
telling details.
• Use Anonymizing Technologies
• Use Ping Servers
14. Examples of Top blogs
• Blog.com what is your story?
• Google official Blog
18. Reference
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)
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blogging.html
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20. book:
• why blogs? Motivations for blogging ( 2010) by Sarah Pedersen
• Video YouTube:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhFc6GqVdU&feature=relmfu
• Jing video:
• http://screencast.com/t/QjgLjQmBb
• Power point
