What's a Blog Anyway?Written by Susan Dunn, MA, Marketing Coach
In case you don’t know what a blog is, it’s a shortened form of “weblog”. It’s like a personal journal, offering musings or information, but available to public on a website. Blogs are informal, and often provide new entries every day, or quite frequently. There’s nothing static about a blog. They’re intriguing because they give you an insight into person writing them, and because you know there will be new stuff daily. Many give you opportunity to make entries or comments yourself and become sort of dialogues or collaborations between writer, you, and others who contribute. Blogs sometimes have a theme , but in some, theme is simply person writing them – a sort of stream-of consciousness about what they’re thinking which includes what they’re worried about, mad about, concerned about, interested in, and so forth. Like everything else on Internet, it’s evolving and moving fast, so who knows what a blog might be tomorrow. Are they popular? Cooking for Engineers, www.cookingforengineers.com said he had to change his server because he was getting 12,000 hits an hour. Here are some uses for blogs: 1.Journal. As we all know, there’s something about writing things out that aids our well-being. 2.Connect. While you’re journaling for your own benefit, others benefit as well. If you allow comments, you’ll meet all sorts of people. 3.To impart information on a particular subject or range of subjects. For instance I have one on emotional intelligence – http://www.eqcoach.net/blogger.html . 4.Update on illness or hospitalization. Set up a blog to keep everyone informed on your progress. Concerned others can check daily. 5.Coordinating an event. Lets say you’re planning a huge family reunion and know it’s going to take weeks-to-moths to get it all together. Others can check daily and add their “yes” or “no” to plans, give suggestions, etc.
| | Destination: Desktop for GoogleWritten by Jakob Jelling
By Jakob Jelling http://www.sitetube.comFirst we had original Google search that evolved into leader in its class. In fact, it became so popular that word "google" worked its way into our everyday language as a verb, as in "to google" something. Google later introduced a toolbar that was plug-in for some browsers like Internet Explorer. The Google toolbar features a direct Google search box with quick access to image and group searches, a pop-up blocker, and for Internet marketers mostly, a PageRank (PR) indicator. With competition like Yahoo and MSN threatening to start nipping at Google's heels, Google has introduced several new services to try to stay ahead of pack. Recently they introduced Gmail, their web-based free email service (currently offered by invitation only). And still in Google lab is Google Deskbar (for Windows users only). The Google deskbar is a plug-in that resides in Windows taskbar, little control panel that contains your start button, perhaps some quick launch icons, clock, and system tray. Search engines and marketers have realized that to maintain and increase their competitive status, they will need to find ways to get surfers and customers to invite them to their desktops.
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