What Is A BLOG?

According to Wikipedia, the term ‘blog’ is a blend of the words web and log.

Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other resources related to its topic. Most blogs use written text, although some use other media, such as photographs, video, and audio.

Blogging in its earliest form was at the start of the World Wide Web, allowing postings as newsgroups. Today, blogging is used for everything from politics and social issues to travel and fashion. They are essentially a forum for expressing personal ideas and commentary. Blogs can be private or it can be used for business purposes. If the intent of a blog is to enhance the communication and culture in an organization or for marketing, branding or PR purposes, it is considered a corporate blog.

Blogs vary in form. They can be separated by subject but they can also be varied media type. A blog written by a mobile device like a cellular phone or PDA is called a mblog. It’s defined by the type of device used to compose it.

As with anything, there are both positives and negatives that drive the use or misuse of blogging. Next month we’ll look at the benefits of blogging and how that can help your church or ministry.

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Traci Riley has worked in marketing in the technology industry for 8 years. She spends her days with Katalyst Solutions researching and writing to be a ‘katalyst for your online success.’