1. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Blogging * *But were afraid to ask Jim Gaston Associate Director, SOCCCD IT

2. New Stuff From District IT MySite 2.0 MAP New SIS

3. Overview What is a blog? Consuming –Finding –Organizing/Subscribing (RSS) Producing –Creating a blog –Creating blog postings –Promoting –Tracking Usage

4. Web Sites http://del.icio.us/jgaston/blogs http://digitaledu.blogspot.com

5. What is Blogging? From Wikipedia: A blog is a user generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Derived from Web log Began as online journals/diaries but has now evolved into a new form of media

6. Impact of Blogs Dan Rather, Mark Foley and Trent Lott Daily Kos and Joseph Leiberman Around 60 million blogs Every Day: –100,000 new blogs created –1.3 million new postings

7. Reading Blogs Blog Index and Search –Technorati.com –Blogsearch.google.com –Search.blogger.com –Blogpulse.com

8. Subscribing to Blogs RSS (Really Simple Syndication) –A text file that contains updates to the content of a site Often blogs will provide the entire text of a blog post in the feed Latest browsers (IE7 and Firefox 2) have full RSS support –Called Live Bookmarks or Feeds

9. Web Based RSS Readers Reader.google.com Bloglines.com

10. Producing a Blog Blogger.com Wordpress.com Edublogs.org

11. Creating Content Blog Posting Adding images and video clips

12. Promoting your blog Register your blog with your favorite blog search sites (i.e. Technorati.com) Link to other blogs Post comments with a reference to your blog

13. Tracking Usage If you build it, will they come? Site tracking –Sitemeter.com –Analytics.google.com Sites will provide small section of JavaScript that you can copy and paste into your blog