Blog Resources
Blogs w/ Tutorials
- Blogger - free, create (and delete) as many blogs as you want, awesome Dashboard feature, fun place to start and experiment with.
- Blogger Help: Beyond Blogging - Fun How Tos, Interviews, Editorials, and Advice from Blogger.
- Wordpress - free, powerful software with dovoted users who create plugins, skins/themes, etc.
- Wordpress Tutorial - Get help with installation, customization, and software features.
- Wordpress plugins you can't live without - Really cool stuff for the intermediate to advanced blogger.
- TypePad - 30 day free trial, something about joining with Skype to Skypecast, requires further investigation...
- Bloglines - free, provides a variety of advanced features, including the addition of your favorite feeds
- Bloglines Help - FAQs for Bloglines
- LiveJournal - free, cool features like community blogging, can use as blog aggregator
Sites
Educause's Blog - This blog provides great academic resources and is part of an award winning site.
OLN Emerging Technologies Testbed - Great resources provided by the Ohio Learning Network.
Forbes' Best Blogs - lots of great blogs to peruse.
B2Day: The Business 2.0 Blog - Cool blog with a Take the Plunge moment...
Books/Articles
7 Things You Should Know About Blogs (pdf download)
7 Things You Should Know About Videoblogging (pdf download)
Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool? - This online article links to an extensive comparison chart for blogging software, provides definitions for blogging jargon, gives further explanation of some of the popular software, and has excellent comments by bloggers.
Extra Credit
Some social sites that include blogs and much more, that you should consider perusing just to be in the know and who knows, one might appeal to you:
- MySpace and Facebook - because you should know what all the hype is about
- YouTube, vmix, and Google Video - all the rage for online video
- Wayn - for travelers
- bebo - the newest increasingly popular social networking site
- Linked In - Social networking for professionals
- BlogHer - cool community for women bloggers
- technorati and del.icio.us - just because
- Niche competitors crowd into MySpace - article about current state of social sites