Blogging

Why blog?  How Blogging and Social Networking Can Impact Your Job Search – About.com

Blogger – Google  - Free blogging –

WordPress – free blog.   Note there are two ways to install WordPress: 

1.       WordPress.com – hosts blogs for free

2.       WordPress.org – Hosting your own installation of WordPress

a.       Setting up a web account with an internet Service Provider who provides WordPress software

                                                                i.      This is the “professional” approach.  This way, you have a specific web address without it saying “http://wordpress.raystheme.com.”

                                                              ii.      www.GoDaddy.com

                                                             iii.      http://www.his.com

1.       Pricing at Heller Information Services, Rockville - http://info.his.com/services/plesk.options.html

2.       Local company, local help.

“Wordpress is a lot more than a blogging platform….It is still a great blogging platform, but it can be so much more.  A community, the basis for an e-commerce site, a photo portfolio, a newspaper, an online magazine….All it needs is for you to create the themes for it.” 

Hedengren, Smashing WordPress Themes, p. 20, © 2011

WordPress free themes

Blogging Texts

Content Rules  - Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,536 in Books

ProBlogger - Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,603 in Books

Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging – “Not much instructional information.”  I agree.  Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,087 in Books

Blog Topics - Amazon

Blog Schmog:  The Truth About What Blogs Can (And Can’t) Do for your Business.  Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #898,371 in Books

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Tutorials on Blogging

Blogging Tutorials on About.com

About.com Blogging