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Meaning of Blogging - Definitions of a Blog and Weblog
The meaning of blogging?
There are several definitions of a blog depending on the purpose it serves to individuals. But you'll find something common to all the meaning of blog given below.
The Definition of Blog according to How it is been used
Some Ways Blogs or Weblogs are Used
For personal purpose : Where it serves like a diary.
For business : To create exposure, discuss new developments, and get feedbacks from customers.
Political : To discuss political issues.
Pets : Discuss about particular pets and how to properly care for them.
Travel : Discuss about favorite holiday locations and much more.
Infact a blog can be use to discuss anything and everything. Your only limiting factor is you.
Before I give a meaning of blogging or definition of weblog or a blog to me, read what other authors have said about blogs and weblogs.
Wikipedia's thoughts about the meaning of blogging, Blogs and weblogs.
A blog (a portmanteau of the term "web log") is a type of website or part of a website.
Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
answers.com gave detailed information on the meaning of blogging and blog.
(WeBLOG) A Web site that contains dated text entries in reverse chronological order about a topic (most recent entry first). Blogs serve many purposes from personal journals to online newsletters to "ranting and raving."
Written by one person or a group of contributors, entries contain commentary, observations and opinions and may include images, audio, video, links to other sites and even a search facility for finding earlier entries.
The blog is often a passionate expression of one individual's thoughts, and blogs are expected to be totally truthful. Although increasingly included, ads have traditionally not been on blogs.
Informality and off-the-cuff opinion are what set blogs apart from Web sites, e-zines and other electronic publishing formats.
More on the Meaning of Blogging and Blog
Meaning of blog and Blogging according to Blogger
A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.
In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis.
New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.
Definition of blog by Marketing term
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.
Meaning of Blogging and Blog According to some Book Authors.
The book Blogging for Business by Shel Holtz has this to say about meaning of a blog and weblog.
A very simple website that has some features "traditional" websites will have once they mature.
Blogs Organize their content into short "posts" or articles, which are displayed in a reverse chronological order and tend to contain personal opinions as well as facts.
While Meredith G. Farkes in the book Social Software in Libraries said about meaning of blogging :
A weblog or blog is a frequently updated website consisting of dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order so that most recent post appears first.
A General Definition of a blog
These are just few of the many definition attempt of What is a blog.
Like I said earlier individual definition of blog depends on the purpose it serves them.
However from all the meanings given, some terms are commonly used which when put together could give a semi generally accepted definition.
Words like "A website" "contains entries in chronological order" "individual thoughts" "contains links" Put together a more general but mini blog definition will be:
A website that contains individual thoughts arranged in a chronological order with links to other websites.
Now you have a good idea of the meaning of blogging, blog and weblog. Perhaps after starting your own blog, you will see these meanings as too narrow or need more life. Should that be the case, you are welcome to add yours :)
The definition of blog is not as important as how to use it to achieve your goal.
Example of a Blog and How to Use it
To understand weblogs more and how they work you have to visit, study and read some of them. Here is one of my blogs, copingwithdepressioncenter.com
Everything you see on that blog were so easy to put there that a third grade can do it.
I type what I wanted to publish there first on my computer, do my editing and just copy and paste it to the 'Add new' page on the blog dashboard.
All the links are added with a simple html code that you will learn about soon.
With the help of an Inter-page linking plugin called KB linker, I don't do any html when linking to other pages on the site.
Once the plugin is activated which is as simple as downloading, uploading and clicking activate, when you write posts it automatically link to related pages as long as the terms you'll want to use in the linking and their related URL have been saved to the plugin.
Don't worry about all that yet, everything will be made available to you here step by step.
All I want you to do now is see how a blog looks like and how it is arranged.
If you would like to read more about the meaning of blogging, definition of a blog, what is a weblog and it history before starting a blog then use the links below.
History of blogging by Wikipedia
History of blogging by Rebecca
Moving on, let's discuss the benefits of blogging to you and a Business.
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