Blogs became a positive path to share information with people and for variety of other uses. There are many advantages of using blogs to share stories and information as it is a professional platform for writers. Bloggers need to learn and understand the fundamentals of writing a blog before posting them. According to (cpcommunications) the writing style of a blog needs to suit online readers to make it more interesting by using number of tips such as: keeping the blog short, using dot points, checking spelling and grammar and using hyperlinks. Following these steps will help bloggers and writers to create a good blog to attract readers. Moreover, choosing the best blogging platform has an effect on delivering content of blogs to the target audience. (creative blog) is sharing the best sites to build a blog sharing website. These blogging platforms are: Wix, Joomla, Yola, WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr. All these blogging platforms have the same goal with similar users and different interest. WordPress will be used as the blogging platform to continue sharing blogs of the Social Computing unit.
Recently, social computing is changing and helping people to achieve different goals. Blogs are being used for educational, business and information sharing purposes. Engdahl (2008) affirmed the major role of blogs in serving and impacting the community. This increases the importance and responsibility public bloggers have towards their followers. On the other hand, blogs are used as tutorials to offer a big number of online students to learn new skills. Nowadays, online centred education is very popular as more people are seeking to compete online courses, watch educational videos and read blogs. Myers (2010) showed that blogs in a small period of time is becoming one of the best sources for many readers to gather information.
One more advantage of using blogs is comments. Readers can comment on a blog sharing their ideas, asking questions and arguing a topic. Bolander, Brook, and Ebooks Corporation (2013) explain the feature of comments in blogs when readers ask questions, agree or disagree with a blogger’s post and how a blogger can use this section to answer readers. This feature is very helpful and can give readers the opportunity to understand the propose of the blog. Finally, learning how to create blogs is a positive skill everyone has to obtain to help sharing and teaching other people different lessons in many aspects.
References:
Bolander, Brook, and Ebooks Corporation. Language and Power in Blogs: Interaction, Disagreements and Agreements. 2013. Pragmatics & beyond; 237. Web.
Engdahl, Sylvia. Blogs. Detroit: Greenhaven/Gale, 2008. Print. Current Controversies.
Myers, Greg. Discourse of Blogs and Wikis. London; New York: Continuum, 2010. Continuum Discourse Ser. Web.
https://publicrelationssydney.com.au/how-to-write-a-blog-post/
https://www.creativebloq.com/web-design/best-blogging-platforms-121413634
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A well structured blog detailing precisely what blogs are and what they entail also including how other users are able to make comments to the writers blogs which I didn’t know before. This also speaks about some of the blogging platforms available and how blogs have impacted society as a whole
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Thank you Albert for your comment. Happy to read your opinion about it.
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Great blog and good theme selection for the blog .Clear description of blogging platforms and their advantages in social computing , paraphrasing and in text references provided make it a well documented blog.
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Thank you Nihal for your comment and support
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well done Martin, very good explanation on how blogs can be important for business and community. good structure and using references as it helped making this blog more credible.
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Thank you Shamoun for your comment. Blogs are a good way to improve and help the society.
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