Penning A Blog Can Be A Superb Way Of Telling Other People What You Have Been Doing – And An Increasing Number Of People Are Getting On Board Every Day!

Ever since computers became readily available to most people for for daily use, more and more of the things we find out about breaking news headlines is published online before anywhere else. The very nature of the internet means that a headline can be sent around the world just as quickly as someone can type it or dictate it and click the ‘send’ button.

In recent years, this easy way of sharing knowledge has led to ever more individuals and businesses wanting to share their own ideas with the worldwide web – or maybe just their friends or colleagues – and from this desire the notion of blogging was created. The word ‘blog’ is really a shortened alternative of the original name for these comments: ‘web log’. As is common in this high-tech world that we inhabit, it has only taken a few years for the noun ‘blog’ and the verb ‘to blog’ to become an accepted part of our language, and many people will know what you mean if you announce that you write a blog.

Blogs can be used by literally anyone to publicise or discuss absolutely anything. Corporate blogs are mostly used to provide up-to-date information to either internal users or the business community in general – anything from financial results, management and potential job losses to announcing a colleague’s promotion, congratulating a member of staff on their birthday or keeping colleagues in the loop about a team member’s recovery from Laser eye surgery or a broken ankle! Entertainers, musicians, theatre companies and many others can make use of blogs to keep followers updated with what they are doing so that people are aware before the event, and then in due course a blog can be posted as a review or resumé telling what occured.

But nowadays, more and more folk are opting to write their own blogs and publicise them to their friends, or through links on social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook. Reading any ‘How To…’ publication about blogs will send the potential blogger to a number of suggested sites to use which will host the blog for free. These are slightly limiting in that the blog must be created within the design restrictions that the host site will accept, but there are mostly enough options to make a good looking blog page. Obviously, if you’re feeling confident and have some knowledge of web design you can make your desired blog page with as many whistles and bells and Laser eye shows as you wish, but you do need to have the time and the experience – and the funds to pay for a host.

Naturally, every user’s idea of what they would like to blog about will be different. Some will use mostly visuals or videos, some will use just text and many will rely on a combination of these three and more besides. A lot of blogs will concentrate on one particular subject – for example, music reviews, musings about a chosen sport, keeping family up to date with a son or daughter’s achievements and so on. One young man especially caught the public’s imagination by authoring a blog about his fight against cancer in such a sincere and yet humorous fashion that he virtually became a minor celebrity and caught the attention of the national newspapers. But it isn’t recommended that everyone starts blogging the gory details of joint replacement operations, Laser eye surgery or treatment for bunions – not everybody has young Jamie’s writing talents!

In general though, personal blogs are simply thoughts, opinions and comments that an individual chooses to articulate and share with others. If someone has a particular subject that they have a strong opinion on, it can sometimes be far easier to get that message to a number of of their friends by pointing them to a blog entry rather than trying to tell several people face to face in different circumstances. For example, endeavouring to describe a recent evening out at the theatre to a parent, a friend, a colleague and a casual acquaintance would provide four varied versions of the same evening. One might discuss the actors, one the amazing set and the accompanying Laser eye light show, a third might explain who also had tickets for the show and the fourth maybe which restaurant was used afterwards. A blog entry could cover all of this information and give everyone a comprehensive description of the evening overall.