In the blogosphere, there is alot of advice floating around. Some is good, and some is bad. Almost all of the advice has those that will argue for it, and those who will argue against it.
Very few pieces of advice have unanimous support. Read the rest of this entry »
E-learning means learning through the internet. It is also known as online or electronic learning. The courses which provide such type of learning are known as e-learning courses, like ‘e-MBA’. To take advantage of these courses, you must be familiar with the net and its technologies like web browsing, e-mails, blogs, voice chat, text chat, web 2.0, wikis, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds and video conferencing.
I will show you how blogs can help you in getting all the assistance you need to successfully complete your online course. Read the rest of this entry »
Start a blog
Seems obvious, but just start blogging about anything that you know something about. Once you have the blog up and running you can get used to the discipline required and develop your own writing style. As an example, you could start a blog about where you live. Just sign on with one of the free blogging services or purchase a domain name, install Wordpress or other blogging software and start blogging. Doing it this way means that all you have to come up with are observations about daily life in your town and write about them. It may not be riveting, but the point is that it gives you a source of material that you have to shape into something readable. This sort of blog may never get a large audience, but the fact that it is live adds a certain compulsion to write for it. If you were just writing for yourself without publishing it, there would be a greater chance of stopping through lack of motivation. Read the rest of this entry »
Riky, from Indonesia, has completed his first semester at Northern Kentucky University and looks forward to a well-deserved holiday break. Neema, from New Jersey, cheers on the “Ruts” football team in between studying for mid-term examinations at Rutgers University. Heather, from Columbus, Ohio, reflects on what Thanksgiving means to her while lamenting the cold, damp weather at Capital University. Read the rest of this entry »
The idea of writing a novel directly into a blog is not new. In fact there was quite the little fad that took the blogging community by storm in 2004 when numerous writers kept trying to find new ways to use the blogging format to their advantage. Many of the new blog formats died out, including the blog novel. However, the reasons for the blog novel’s demise have more to do with the fact that it is a hard project to complete than that it does not work or is not fun. Read the rest of this entry »
I only recently installed the Wordpress Stats plugin to my blogs. I thought I was getting enough information from the stats from my web host 1and1.co.uk. I knew how many visitors came to the blogs every day and the number of views each of the blog posts were getting. I’m wary of having too many stats as they can either confuse you and/or you can spend far too much time looking at and analysing them. Read the rest of this entry »