#28507
Getting Started with Blogging Software
We reviewed and compared the seven tools most frequently used to create a blog. Which are easiest to get up and running, or to tailor to match your site? Which has the best comment moderation features? Reporting functionality? We'll give you all the details and recommend a tool for you.
IdealWare (2006). Articles>Content Management>Software>Blogging
#28823
Got Blog? Blogging for Independent Consultants, Contractors, and Small Business Owners 
Why Blog? Your personal presence, building goodwill, and enhancing your network.
Bryant, Stephanie. STC Proceedings (2007). Careers>Consulting>Business Communication>Blogging
#26301
Leaving a comment on someone's weblog is like walking into their living room and joining in on a conversation. As in real life, online there are some people who are a pleasure to converse with, and some who are not.
Trapani, Gina. LifeHacker (2005). Articles>Writing>Community Building>Blogging
#31233
Handling Negative Feedback on Blogs
Despite blogs’ potential for creating valuable online communities, many communicators are still uneasy with the blog format. Communicators worry about the possibility of readers posting negative comments and feedback on the company blog. Angry customers leaving stories of poor experiences for all to see or employees submitting bitter public complaints are nightmare scenarios for most communicators. So how should we respond to negative feedback on corporate blogs? The process begins with shifting our perspective to see the risks as opportunities.
Drennan, Scott. Communication World Bulletin (2007). Articles>Web Design>Community Building>Blogging
#25554
Weblogs are often-updated sites that point to articles elsewhere on the web, often with comments, and to on-site articles.
Winer, Dave. Weblogs.com (2003). Articles>Web Design>History>Blogging
#31394
If you're a professional communicator, chances are good you've already asked yourself whether it's time to start your own blog. But there's another tech question that you probably have not yet asked yourself, and perhaps you should: Is it time to start your own wiki?
Forbush, Dan. Communication World Bulletin (2005). Articles>Web Design>Blogging>Wikis
#25387
How to Create and Promote a Blog in Eight Easy Steps
A new buzzword you should know about is 'blog' or 'web log', meaning web log, digital journal, or online diary. Blogs are the Next Big Thing to hit the Internet, after conventional Web Sites.
Streight, Steven. Usability Interface (2005). Articles>Web Design>User Centered Design>Blogging
#31089
The keywords that set off the Intercom editor's Google Alert no doubt included technical communicator, technical writer, technical communication, and Society for Technical Communication.
Johnson, Tom H. I'd Rather Be Writing (2008). Articles>Publishing>Online>Blogging
#20223
Great writing can’t be taught, but bad writing can be avoided. Mahoney shares tips that may enhance the writing on your personal site.
Mahoney, Dennis A. List Apart, A (2002). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Blogging
#29252
I Can Exist Now. The NYT Said So.
I have mixed feelings about this article in the New York Times about Usability Professionals: Technology's Untanglers: They Make It Really Work. I've read mixed feelings about this article as well. Had it been written 5 years ago, I'd be really pleased about it. But it isn't a very well written article and has some mis-information as well.
Oliphant, Matthew. Usabilityworks.org (2007). Articles>Usability>Journalism>Blogging
#25591
Imagining the Blogosphere: An Introduction to the Imagined Community of Instant Publishing
Blogs above the waterline—those which are frequently updated, widely read, and consistently linked—may represent the conception of blogs in the public mind, but they are not representative of blogs in general.
Lampa, Graham. Into the Blogosphere (2004). Articles>Writing>Community Building>Blogging
#31326
Internal Blogging and the Rules of Disclosure: An IR-Reconciliable Difference?
We are hearing and reading a lot these days about the new age of transparency, in which organizations must go beyond traditional, tightly controlled communication and engage in a "naked conversation" with their customers, communities, employees and other stakeholders.
Shewchuk, Ron. Communication World Bulletin (2006). Articles>Business Communication>Workplace>Blogging
#25475
K-Logging: Supporting KM With Weblogs
Web-logging software has received plenty of attention as a quick and easy way to post content to a web site. Web logs (blogs) tend to fall into two categories: personal web logs that function sort of like diaries, and informational blogs that target a readership with a shared interest. But web logging can also be used to support knowledge management (KM)¡ªthe effort within an organization to share knowledge and help the organization achieve its mission. This form of web logging, called knowledge logging, or k-logging, is emerging as an inexpensive alternative to large-scale KM solutions.
Angeles, Michael. Library Journal (2002). Articles>Knowledge Management>Communication>Blogging
#25590
The Labyrinth Unbound: Weblogs as Literature
While the weblog tends toward esoterically personal content (as evidence in the examples above) and often delivers some contextual account of the author’s life and activities, the obvious exceptions to this rule preclude understanding the form simply as an online diary. Likewise, the structural and technical definitions many in the weblogging community focus on fall equally short of describing what is a complex, earnest, and distinct literary form. In other words, it is insufficient to explore the weblog exclusively at the level of content, and equally insufficient to focus wholly on the technical delivery of that content. Accounting for the diversity of weblogs and webloggers—yet still maintaining some larger sense of what they have in common—requires instead a careful look both at what weblogs do, and how they do it for both writers and readers.
Himmer, Steve. Into the Blogosphere (2004). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Blogging
#25476
Learner Attitudes Towards a Tutor-Run Weblog in the EFL University Classroom
The purpose of this personal mini-research project is to investigate learner attitudes towards a weblog that I recently set-up and have been running for my classroom-based university EFL learners here in Japan. What follows will be my attempt to relate my experience as a first-time researcher: from formulating the research questions to selecting research methods and describing their deployment. I will then report on the outcomes, give a short analysis, and discuss what the entire process meant to me.
Campbell, Aaron Patric. OCN (2002). Articles>Education>Content Management>Blogging
#31254
Lessons Learned in the Corporate Blogosphere
As the publisher of CEO Blog Watch, I pay close attention the evolution of corporate communication, especially as it pertains to blogging. In fact, the mission of CEO Blog Watch is to chronicle the continued rise of corporate and CEO blogs. As someone who monitors CEO blogging, I can tell you that the most commonly asked question on the subject is, "Should a CEO blog?" Here's my take on the subject.
Cornett, Brandon. Communication World Bulletin (2007). Articles>Business Communication>Management>Blogging
#25477
Links, Lives, Logs: Presentation in the Dutch Blogosphere
Few native English weblogs link to non-English weblogs in their blogroll and those English language weblogs that do link to non-English weblogs are usually written by non-native English speakers. The Internet may be transnational but many communities remain bound by barriers of language.
Schaap, Frank. Into the Blogosphere (2004). Articles>Presentations>Community Building>Blogging
#29253
Listen To Me, Not Jakob Nielsen
A response to Jakob Nielsen's 2007 "Write Articles, Not Blog Postings." Nielsen's article is also chock-full of bad information. Why bad? Because most of it is made up. The length of the article requires you to really read it. You can't scan it. The problem is, most people scan online.
Oliphant, Matthew. Usabilityworks.org (2007). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Blogging
#20685
STC must change, and the Board has ideas on what STC should look like. But is it fair to simply foist our ideas on members? Why would we do that?
STC (2003). Articles>TC>Organizations>Blogging
#31412
Measuring the Influence of Blogs on Consumers, the Media and Corporate Reputation
According to the report "State of the News Media 2005" from the Project for Excellence in Journalism, "more than a third of Americans, some 36 percent, are regular consumers of four or more different kinds of news outlets—network news, local TV, newspapers, cable, radio, the Internet and magazines."
Woods, Julie. Business Communication World (2005). Articles>Web Design>Audience Analysis>Blogging
#28004
Michael Stelzner's Writing White Papers Blog 
Michael Stelzner's Writing White Papers Blog is offers comprehensive look at all white paper related topics, from writing to marketing.
Stelzner, Michael A. WhitePaperSource (2006). Articles>Writing>White Papers>Blogging
#25478
Moving to the Public: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom
Given that students have access to the Internet, weblogs can easily replace traditional classroom uses of the private print journal. While weblogs are normally public, free tools such as Blogger can be used for private, expressive writing.
Lowe, Charles and Terra Williams. Into the Blogosphere (2004). Articles>Education>Content Management>Blogging
#25561
Theoretically, you can annotate your bookmarks, entering free-form reminders to yourself so that you can remember why you bookmarked this page or that one. I don't know about you, but I never actually got around to doing this. Until I started blogging.
Doctorow, Cory. O'Reilly and Associates (2002). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Blogging
#31392
New Toys or Tactics for New Communication Challenges?
New technologies are changing the ways we can achieve excellence in communication. Three new web-based communication tools have caught the imagination of innovators and early adopters. Blogs and wikis are proliferating all over the Internet, and podcasts look like they will soon be commonplace.
Williams, Tudor. Communication World Bulletin (2005). Articles>Web Design>Blogging>Podcasting
#25562
The O'Reilly Radar blog will track what we're tracking, and turn the blips into conversations.
Dornfest, Rael. O'Reilly and Associates (2005). Articles>Content Management>User Centered Design>Blogging
