Web Blogs
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“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought with money, and this is sincerity and integrity” D. A. Adams
Web Pages or Weblogs
If you want to help research and provide information that
is of interest to FourC participants you might consider starting a
blog. It is easy and anyone can do it. If you cover a subject that
is interest to all of us we'll reference it on the site where all
can find it. Not only that but information put on your blog will
stay there where participants can go back to it any time they want.
What is a “Blog”? Short for web log. Web logs
comprise short or long comments about links to articles, sites,
press releases and discussions. Thousands of users have web logs and
many update them daily or even many times a day. Many services are
available and offer a variety of blogging options, all characterized
by a simple web form to add and edit items. Submitting the form
updates your site. The services are essentially a web-based tool
that help you publish to the web instantly, whenever the urge
strikes.
The purpose of a blog in FourC terms is:
To keep interest up in the issue, increase traffic on your web site,
and that of FourC.
To provide a running commentary on news items that impact your issue
so that you will gain a readership of people interested in your
issue and potentially interested in participating in FourC.
The advantages of using a blog are:
- * It can be a free service.
- If you are a fair, diligent, and facile writer, you will attract a large base interested in your analysis of an important issue and be able to relate that issue to NSC, which will in turn increase your audience.
- You can write as much or as little as you like every day.
- An outline you might consider for your daily blog might be
as follows:
- A news event of the day, and the meaning of that in terms of your issue.
- Discussion of an issue related to your major issue.
- Why this is potentially important to the reader.
- References they might like to peruse to learn more about this issue. (Include your assessment of the bias of the references.)
- Make sure you put your web address in the header of your blog; you may want to include that of newsocialcontract.com
How to get started with a blog:
Do you have a Gmail account. If not go to
Create a Google Account. It's free.
Then--
Go to Blogger.com (or another
blog service - it is free because they make their money from
advertising or you can get an ad-free paid site)
Select “Create Your Blog Now"/
Questions? Contact Peter the
webman by clicking on this sentence.
