...In a short span of five years, blogs have invaded our culture and left an indelible mark on society. From Politics to Journalism, blogs are reshaping our notion of how content is created and information is disseminated. Before the popularity of blogging and the internet the main sources of news were television and newspapers. The content and perspective of the news was decided by the media. It was easy for them to stretch the truth, omit important issues, portray problems as more or less serious than reality, and show the point of view that they wanted the public to see. The internet changed the way our news was delivered, and blogs in particular have affected the news industry greatly. Unlike before where some executive decided what the country should and shouldn't be told about, it is now possible for any individual to publish news on the internet. This has changed the news industry dramatically from a consumers point of view. The executives can still try to control which stories are published and which point of view to portray, but online we can find the real truths more easily. Not only can we find out what happened from various view points, we can read individual people's thoughts and feelings about the stories. We can see what various experts think about situations and events, as well as the general public opinions. Another benefit for consumers is that we can filter the types of news we choose to read. Television news often shows world events, sporting events and a weather...
Words: 709 - Pages: 3
...Mary Cagle Feministe In 2001, Lauren Bruce founded Feministe as her personal blog to use in exploring feminist theory. Since then, Feminste has grown into a network of about five main authors and many guest bloggers. Feministe features a broad range of topics in order to “foster a dynamic, robust, progressive and inclusive feminist community,” according to the mission statement. This blog reaches a large audience; the twitter account @feministe has 23.7K followers, but they did not gain a following by taking the easy way. Many Feministe posts thoroughly examine events and people and the way they affect women around the world, and they are not always nice. Even their tagline, “In defense of the sanctimonious women’s studies set,” is a sarcastic response to a male blogger dismissing feminism. Along with the regular posts, Feministe has threads engaging their audience like, “shameless self-promotion Sunday” where the blog followers can post their own stories, “signal-bosting” threads where bloggers can post links and share other articles, and “spillover” threads for more discussion on a certain topic in the comments section. The latest post, a response to the report on Rolling Stone’s handling of the University of Virginia rape story, was very eye opening and provided a different perspective. In November, Rolling Stone released a story about a rape on the UVA campus. The victim, called Jackie, wished to remain anonymous and also did not release the name of her rapist. However...
Words: 1155 - Pages: 5
...Blog Evaluation Trident University 23 June 2013 I am going to talk to you about a growing issue which is plaguing the United States it is eating away at the very heart of our great nation. When we hear about this topic it is primarily known as women’s issues that some good men help out with. This is not a women’s issue this is a man’s issue, when we as men start to turn a blind eye we are just as guilty as the person committing the crime. The issue I am talking about is sexual violence, when given this assignment I had already been following a blog called Project Unbreakable. You see about six months ago I became a sexual assault victim advocate and I am nationally registered with the National Organization for Victim Assistance, although I work with military personnel I am certified to work with the civilian population. This essay is not only to evaluate a blog website but to ensure that the brave women who share their stories openly are heard and not silenced. First let’s look at the writer of this blog and when she started blogging, the blog was started October two thousand and eleven. The writer of this blog is Grace Brown she is now twenty years old and is a photographer and public speaker from Massachusetts. Ms. Brown does extensive work with survivors of sexual assault, capturing them in photos holding a quote from their attacker. Ms. Brown has currently photographed over four hundred survivors and...
Words: 1268 - Pages: 6
...“The Blogs of War” Everyone has curiosity about what is going on in the war and why war starts. The best way to find out this information is listening to military blogs. If you have the same level of curiosity that many Americans have wondered all the time what is a military blog, who writes them, what are the pro and cons of military blogs? In the passage, “The Blogs of War” John Hockenberry explains these points with firsthand accounts of soldiers in the war in Iraq. In the passage, Hockenberry defines these military bloggers aka milbloggers as would-be poets. Would-be poets offer unprecedented real-time, real-life windows on war and the people who wage it. This meaning soldiers that sound like poets expressing their feelings and views of the war in blogs rather than in poems. “Black five”, a former army intelligence officer and paratrooper says that milblogging may be the result of an explosion of communications technology throughout the military and an increase in brainpower among the lower ranks. Basically this means when email, Skype and other ways to communicate started being brought around, it became easier for soldiers at war to keep their family, friends and others around the world updated on what is going with them. This allowed someone to think more in depth to figure and say “Since I can update my loved ones about what is going on why not give the world a front row seat on what is going on at war?” Therefore, military blogs are blogs written by soldiers to keep...
Words: 634 - Pages: 3
...BLOG ASSIGNMENT INTRODUCTION This is a blog assignment where we get to create our own blogs and use social networks to get audience to our blogs. Here I will be giving background information of my blog and what forms I used to get it out there as a marketing strategy. I will also give a brief report on the success of my blog. My Blog named second chances is a platform for me to share my life experiences with other women and be a light to young women so they could learn from them. Life takes us through so many phases and with this blog I share and teach how we can sustain ourselves by tackling life issues using the bible. Second chances came to being because of my situation which I believe is a matter of a second chance. I thought by this name I will give hope to others that indeed God does offer second chances. This is how I introduced myself in the blog: I am a mother, a wife and a student at University of Cape Town. I believe in second chances as I am a testimony of that. Everything that I am is through the grace of the Almighty and therefore I am humbled. I was in a stage in my life when I was about to give up but God stretched His hand over me, so now I can’t stop but sing songs of praise. With this chance provided to me I intend to be a good server of God by giving free lessons about life to my fellow christens. The blog is about my daily encounters during my journey of life, I talk about almost anything be it news, stories or lessons that needs to be told. It...
Words: 3458 - Pages: 14
...Implementation of a Company Blog Sherry Hays Westwood College BUS 500 July 21, 2014 Table of Contents Abstract---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Executive Summary-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Benefits of a Blog----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Statistics---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Downside of Blogging------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 Cost of a Blog---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Recommendations----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 References-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Abstract A business blog can be a good recruiting tool for a business. There are countless companies that have a blog and are benefiting very nicely. Blogging...
Words: 1358 - Pages: 6
...Andrew Sullivan, blog lover explains why he loves to blog in his essay “Why I Blog”. He thinks it is modern type of newspaper where you write a blog and you also get reviews of readers and what they think. This means he had definitely wrote many blogs as he thinks it is easier to let others know what is going on in the world through a blog. In his essay he talks about one of his blog about 911. He shows how he got close to the readers and what opinions he got from his readers in his essay. Sullivan reminds me of my older sister, Nicole. She also loves blogging. One of the reason she enjoys blogging is she thinks she is really good at writing and I also think the same. And another is she loves when people read what she wrote and gives her feedback. I personally do not like to blog and I had never read one. Sometime Nicole forces me to read at least one of her blog but I denied her every time. I feel very less people uses blog to share what is going on. Because nowadays people are busy using apps like Facebook, Twitter and online news paper. I hardly new any people who reads blog now. People are on Facebook 24/7 and I think one can be easily updated if they have any kind of social media. As we all know about Ice Bucket Challenge which was unknown since last year, but this year it spreader within two weeks in all over the world through social media. Now everyone knows about Ice Bucket Challenge, and I personally think if someone wrote a blog about this then it would not reach the...
Words: 312 - Pages: 2
...and exchange information. For instance, it provides a new way to communicate and share photos and videos. Also, it provides a new platform which is called web based diary, also known as blog (abbreviated from of weblogs) that contains online personal journals with reflections, comments from visitors and hyperlinks provided by the writer (Herring et al.). Eve Edelson describes it in simple words as “just” browser interface to web site publishing, however, blogs are used by different societies for different purposes and now has become a part of daily life for many bloggers. Matthew Mehan refers to “the blogsphere world as colorful and varied as the animal world. There is an evolutionary struggle for supremacy amongst bloggers” (qtd. in Mehan). A blog is ranked by the number of hits it receives from visitors and the number of outbound links it has. Also Mehan clarifies that there are levels of bloggers from novice those who have just entered the blogging world and up to a level of pounding fathers. Many bloggers use blogs as just a hobby but some blogging can also translate into business. There are some bloggers who blog almost every day to attract advertisers or even product endorsement offers. There are different visitor statistic analyzing sites that offer tools to assist those who use blogs as business tools. For instance, “Site Meter offers a free, basic hit count and link log in exchange for posting a logo-link to their website. It also sells one of the thousands of “site...
Words: 1377 - Pages: 6
...Situación……………………………………………………………………………….....1 ¿Objetivo del Blog? ………………………………………………………………….......1 Análisis de Comportamiento………………………………………….……………….....2 Análisis de Contexto…….……………………………………………………………...10 Cerrar el Blog al Pago…………………………………………………………………..13 ¿Puedo Sacar Rendimiento Publicitario por CPM? ……………………………………15 Contratación por Objetivos……………………………………………………………..16 Propuesta de Monetización……………………………………………………………..18 SEO Vs. Marketing de Contenidos………………………………………………….….19 Propuesta de Definición de Objetivos…………………………………………………..20 10 Consejos de Optimización Inmediata. ………………………………….…………...21 Propuestas de Nuevos KPIs y Optimización de la Herramienta………………….…….25 SITUACIÓN Tenemos entre manos un blog especializado en analítica web, por lo tanto con una audiencia muy específica. El dueño del blog quiere monetizar su contenido. Pero, ¿son estas unas pretensiones realistas? Y si es así ¿Cuál sería el método más rentable? ¿OBJETIVO DEL BLOG? A simple vista no se identifica ningún objetivo, vamos a explorar posibles opciones. ¿Rendimiento publicitario? El autor no escribe para buscadores, tampoco exprime el número de páginas vistas por usuario – este no es el objetivo. ¿Conseguir subscriptores? No tiene habilitada ninguna opción para suscribirse al boletín. – No es el objetivo. ¿Conseguir ser un referente en la materia? No tiene una URL de “quién soy” – tampoco parece el objetivo ¿Conseguir fans/seguidores/contactos? No hay botones sociales en el blog – no El objetivo parece...
Words: 5543 - Pages: 23
...Blog as a Form of Popular Communication In 2005 spring, a 16 years old boy from southern U.S. decided to tell his parents he was a gay and he did not take it well. Thus, his parents decided to send him to a Christian “straight camp” to get him back on the right path. He poured his emotions into a blog on his MySpace.com website which was accessible to the whole Internet. In his posting, he raised the idea of suicide and harming his parents and he wrote his emotional anguish about the camp, including a strict list of rules he would be living upon in next several weeks before leaving for the camp. Within one day, his postings began spreading among blogosphere, provoking a political demonstrating, a state investigation and international new coverage eventually (Tremayne, 2007). The impact of the experience on him remains unclear, but the whole event suggests that the power and dominance of blog in transmission of information and message are evidence comparing with the pre-blog era, in which his story unlikely spreads out further than the circle of his family and friends. According to Gunn and Brummett (2004), among communication studies scholars, “popular communication concerns the study of objects that are widely circulated by means of mass media” (p. 708). In early time, the most popular objects of analysis were radio, television, advertisements and films. However, along with the Internet matures and becomes essential in people’s daily life, new types of popular communication...
Words: 2616 - Pages: 11
...Hints for Business Blogging Success Inc. So, you want to create blogs for your business? Here are just a few ways in which you can create meaningful, lasting impressions on your readers and your leadership that you are the person for the task of conveying the business’s information. Blogging in our society has a great many uses, whether those purposes be for keeping friends updated on your personal life, or your take on the new special at your favorite restaurant. The corporate world also use blogs in much the same fashion, but includes information more to keep inquiring minds in the loop on what is going on in industry. The variety and content in the quintessential blog lies in the skill, planning and effort of the writer. These are the blogs that receive the strongest following, and in turn keep their business inundated with curious readers. How you ask? Well follow these ideas: Include only Important, Helpful Details As always, you should write to your audience, always keep in mind that is it your customer, the industry or the public at large that wants to come away from your message feeling like they just received something valuable. If after writing line after line you don’t feel you have conveyed anything of valuable, it may be time to go back to the top and revise. Interesting, meaningful information is key to continuous readership. Make Posts that Shine like Diamonds Continuous polishing and proofreading enables us to create a jewel from a raw...
Words: 496 - Pages: 2
...What Annoy Visitors in a Website or Blog. Hi Friensd! What might be responsible for a frequent visitor or follower of a particular website or blog to stop visiting the site? Many factors might have contributed to that. The following action of a Webmaster can really frustrate those people that normally visit his website or a blog and which directly drives them away. 1. Loading site with pop-up windows Pop-up windows are windows that open when a visitor reaches a page as well as when they leave the page. This can really annoy visitors. In fact, if you want to annoy them even further, open a pop-up window when they click on links on your site. 2. Disabling right click menu of the browser. Never mind that people need the right click menu for many purposes, and that they can access the same functions through the main menu bar even after you've disabled it. After all, if your aim is to annoy, you might as well make their visit to your site as unpleasant as possible. 3. Playing background music when visitors arrive to page and page is loaded with background music, they are likely to leave the site immediately because of the large amount of their MB that the site will consume. 4. Making every link on a site to open in a new window when visitors clicks on it. That is, put a target="_blank" to every link. This will annoy visitors since every time they click on a link in your site, a new window or tab will open. Imagine the number of windows those poor sods...
Words: 624 - Pages: 3
...“Blogs as a knowledge tool in a construction company” Information and knowledge Knowledge is a critical part of the way a company functions and its success depends a lot on it. When the individuals, and the company as a whole, possess valuable knowledge of the resources, processes, new technologies, its rivals’ situations, customers’ desires and needs they can deliver in a much more sufficient way. The same applies in construction companies. Gaining and generating valuable knowledge is one of the most important company’s capabilities, though very few take full advantage of. That is why a management consultant that is retained by a construction company, which is about to bid for a major project as part of the Thames Gateway development, should advice it to put effort and try to enhance this area (Holtham). There are four steps in the process of making knowledge. First of all comes the data, which is available to everyone and it comes from everywhere. Especially today there is an “explosion of data” from a significant number of resources (television, radio, the Press, the Internet, colleagues, friends etc) and it can be either ‘hard”- when it is “structured and objective” (e.g. facts, numbers) - or “soft”- when it is” unstructured and subjective” (e.g. people’s opinions). Data is then processed by each individual and is converted into information, which can be also either hard or soft. A point that requires attention at this level...
Words: 2726 - Pages: 11
...out of a hat (or similar head-shaped container!) to win a free copy of the ebook when it is completed. Many thanks for your help. Please return to lou.treleaven@sky.com. Lou Treleaven www.loutreleaven.wordpress.com 1. Web address of blog 2. Title of blog 3. When did you start your blog and what is it about? 4. Which blogging platform (eg WordPress, Blogger etc) do you use and why? 5. How often do you post? 6. How many pages do you have? 7. Do you use tags and categories? 8. Do you understand the difference between tags and categories?! 9. What’s your average number of page views per month this year? 10. What’s your average number of visitors per month this year? 11. What’s your most popular post or topic? 12. What’s your main reason for blogging, eg pleasure, publicity, writing practice etc? 13. How many other blogs do you follow? 14. How many do you regularly read? 15. How do you feel about adverts on blogs? 16. What’s the most useful thing you’ve learned since you’ve started blogging? 17. Would you consider a sponsored blog post if you were approached by a company and you liked the product? 18. Would you consider a sponsored blog post if you were approached by a company and you didn’t feel strongly about the product? 19. Do you approve comments before displaying them? 20. Do you reply to all comments? Please tick this box if you are happy for me to quote...
Words: 333 - Pages: 2
...How Copywriting Can Improve Your Blog Posts You may not know it but you may have applied a few copywriting methods in your blogging. When you are good in getting your message across and influence your target audience to follow your call to action, then you are making use of copywriting techniques in your blog. The successful posts are those who can capture the attention of their audience from start to finish. Now, consciously this time, how can you make your blog posts more hardworking with copywriting? Headline – Now, what makes you read a print ad? It’s because you were captured by the headline. That also works with blog posts. You have to get your reader hooked into wanting to read the rest of the piece because you have intrigued them with your headline. You don’t have to be really creative. Just be clear with the benefit of the reader in the headline. Make your reader interested by giving them a whiff of what’s in store for them in the post. Easy to read and understand – Copywriters make their ads crisp and snappy. Bloggers should do that too. Don’t drown your important message with useless words. Make your content valuable and relevant and make them see that right away. Make them want to read more – Start with questions or situations that are relevant to them. Whether it is a problem that they are going through or something that they have been hoping for, they should be able to relate to the post at the start of your writing. Then tell them why your content is valuable...
Words: 368 - Pages: 2
