What is a blog?

According to the Wikipedia entry for blog, “A weblog, or simply a blog, is a website which contains
periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage.”

The cornerstone of any social media marketing, is your blog, it acts as hub, with all the other social media sites linking to it.

Simply put, your blog a Content Management System often called a (CMS), which allows you to create content rich websites, requiring little technical skill. CMS manages all your content, text, photos, music, video, documents, so you don’t have to.

Which Blogging software should you use?

There’s plenty of Blogging Software available

BLOGGER	http://www.blogger.com/
	Creating your blog with Blogger is easy. In a matter of minutes, you can start posting text, photos, videos, and more to your blog. Post as often as you want; it’s free When you create your blog, you can host it for free on Blog*Spot. Just choose an available URL and you’re ready to go or you get your own domain Blogger rates well on Google search engine because its dynamic and changes whenever you update your blog, Google bought the company
JOOMLA	http://www.joomla.org/
	Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone
MOVABLE TYPE	http://www.movabletype.com/
	Manage your content with ease. Movable Type uses global templates and custom fields that enable the addition of meta-data to any asset and make content management simple Movable Type is an all-in-one solution. Create blogs, develop websites, manage content, and build social networks – all in one package Movable Type is scalable. As your site grows and becomes more successful, the platform scales to accommodate your fluctuating traffic needs
WORDPRESS.ORG	http://www.wordpress.org/
	Download and install WordPress on your web host. WordPress is completely customizable and can be used for almost anything WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything The plugins turn this mild manner CMS to Cutting Edge blogging software on steroids, just a couple of the latest blogging technology available to users (such as Trackback) and taking it a step further (such as with Pingback)
WORDPRESS.COM	http://www.wordpress.com/
	WordPress.com which lets you get started with a new and free WordPress-based blog in seconds, but varies in several ways and is less flexible than the WordPress you download and install yourself You’ll get your own WordPress.com address, a selection of great free and customizable themes for your blog, 3 gigabytes of file storage (that’s about 2,500 pictures!) Unlimited flexibility to personalize your blog with themes, gadgets, and more

For me it’s a no brainer, I’d be setting up WordPress everyday of the week. Because, it easy to use and open source, Which means it has a large community who use this platform, and since it open source, you’ll find 1000’s of plugins and themes.

Now When I’m talking WordPress, I mean you should get a domain name and host it on a web server. You see WordPress will also host a form of WordPress on their Servers, it Ok, you just don’t get all the functionality.

You use WordPress straight out of the box, and it will do the job. Once you start, if you add the right plugins, its like putting your Blog on Steroids.

I have a couple of Joomla sites and it’s just hard work. Drupal even harder to use and customise. I have a friend who swears by movable type, but you just can’t crank it up, because it simply doesn’t have the plugins to give it the firepower.

Because WordPress are dynamic content sites, they get a lot Google juice. Google loves them.

If you can type a letter in word, then you create your own posts (articles) in WordPress.

This Website is built using WordPress.org

If you need a hand set up a WordPress, then let me know I’d glad to help

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