What is the big deal about blogs?

Need an explanation? View this video.
http://www.commoncraft.com/show
A video for people who wonder why blogs are such a big deal.

Want to know what Twitter is all about?

When people ask you to explain Twitter, send them to this video.
http://www.commoncraft.com
A quick and plain English intro the micro-blogging service Twitter.

Feedburner.com

Feedburner.com www.feedburner.com

Do you need a way to publicize your blog or just make it easy for friends to get updates? Then you must set up a rss feed for ease.

What an easy way to get your information out to others interested in the same things.

Feedburner provides an unstyled view of your feed, complete with any visible modifications introduced by FeedBurner services. (It doesn't include any Browser-Friendly styling because that only works with certain browsers; click your feed address above to try it out.)

Snapshots

Snapshots http://www.snap.com/snapshots.php

Snapshots elables your viewers to see what the links contains. In a popup window you will see a mini preview of the url.
Add a Snap Shots Badge
By adding a Snap Shots Badge to your site, you let anyone visiting know that there is nothing ordinary about your site.

Blogs - How to basics

Blogs/Wikis and other unknowns
1. Sign up for Gmail (Blogger/Voki/feedburner based on gmail)
and Yahoo (Flickr) accounts
www.Flickr.com
Choose a name for your blog
You can have several blogs with one gmail account
2. Create blog on www.blogger.com (based upon a gmail account)
http:www.Blogger.com

Business:
http://brushcolor.blogspot.com/
http://tristatereviews.blogspot.com/
Groups or user groups:
http://macspacs.blogspot.com/
http://macbusphilly.blogspot.com/

Personal:
http://bookpushintechie.blogspot.com/

3. Go into customize and choose a template.
4. Add graphic in Blog header (include information about blog)
Size: 144 pixels x 720 pixels
5. Add new page elements to your blog (such as links to other websites)
see example on virtual montage blog
This is the place where you can link to other sites you are interested in or what others to know about.
6. Access gmail account in a different tab and go to get a VOKI
www.voki.com
Copy/past code into the box supplied.
(first choose edit for the author box in upper right)
Check out your new addition to the blog.
7. Next create a new post (You must be signed into your gmail account)
Go to new post (top right corner of screen) or
Go to settings under customize
It is also possible to edit posts once they are published.
8. Add Snapshots to make links have a preview (http://www.snap.com/about/shots.php )
9. Establish an RSS feed for your site. www.feedburner.com (free) link to your site(s)