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Blogging
Death by PowerPoint Inc.
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• What are your reasons for doing this?• What do you hope to accomplish?• How much time can you devote?
Why R U in2 Blogging?
• What are my reasons for doing this?• What do I hope to accomplish?• What ultimately happens to me for blogging?• How much time does it take?
Why I am into Blogging?
What have I done?
What's the difference between a Blog and a Website?
• A blog is an asynchronous communication system in which the sender and receiver are not concurrently engaged in real-time communication.
Blogging in Three Steps…
1. Login2. Type your message3. Logout
Websites
• A website is a form of static communication (but can have dynamic components)
• Websites have become digital brochures • Have a discussion board (forums)• Tend not to be updated as quickly as a blog• Tedium of publishing
Blog vs Website
• How to choose?• Depends on your needs• Depends on your time
The Essence of Blogging
• Blogs go from being a monologue, or "brochure," into a dialogue with readers or customers.” (Source: Dave Taylor, intuitive.com)
• Can stimulate communication, thoughts and ideas, hopefully enhancing the world around us…
• Archives content
• Easily searchable
FaceBook vs Blogging
• What is better? • Neither/Both• Utilize one to feed off the other. • Yes you can search content on FaceBook but
FB is not a CMS or Content Management System
Other Topics
• Microsoft Word and Blogging• Copy & Paste for Blogging• WordPress CMS (Content Management System)
& RCC• To get a WordPress account and website, please
fill out the Academic Website Request Form • VBlogging? – What is it? – And should I do it?
Blogging & your iPhone
+ = InstantCommunication
Tips
• List out your topics• Schedule time for blogging• Make your entries concise– Read your entry out loud to yourself
• Make your entries interesting• Fill a niche• Add images• Add links to other sites, blogs, videos etc…• Go mobile
My List
• 16 week semester list of topics that will take me 30 minutes every Friday– Snap Shot Tool in PowerPoint 2010– Snap Shot Tool in MS Word 2010– Publish your blog from Word 2010– Using the snipping tool in Windows Vista or Win 7– Exploring Themes in Word & PPT– Explore picture editing tools in Word & PPT– How to use MS One Note and IE 9 together for more organized
information– Etc…
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