What is a blog? A Primer for Beginners at Blogging

What is a blog? The question was on thousands of lips in 2004, when blogging was new. Since then, literally hundreds of millions of blogs have hit the Web spanning just about any subject under the sun. And the concept of a blog itself has evolved to become so much more than the plain and simple online diaries they were at the beginning.

So the question "What is a blog?" may well be legitimate all over again - in a whole new way. Let's talk about it.

A blog is an online diary. That's the simplest definition I can think of. And one that I give flippantly whenever someone first asks me "What is a blog?" The last thing you want to do is launch into a technical explanation when the person is merely "casually curious"!

A blogger (which is the fancy name for the person who writes a blog) publishes content through a 'point and click' interface that makes blogging a piece of cake. No tweaking with code or tinkering with scripts any more.

For a fuller explanation about blogging basics, you may want to read my free report, "Blog Basics for Marketers" - click here to download a copy (and sign up for the free blogging ecourse, too)

For more about "What is a blog?", read the full post on my Infopreneur Blog.

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Enchantment - a blog about the book

I'm blogging about my progress through Guy Kawasaki's

new book, ENCHANTMENT - The Art of Changing Hearts,

Minds and Actions.

Please drop by the Enchantment Book Blog.

Read along - and get enchanted!

http://enchantmentbook.blogspot.com

The two latest posts are about:

* what's behind the phrase "Don't Menschion It"

* why my daughter asked if I was grinning like a gorilla

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