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How to blog – Introduction to Blogging
Before we actually start with the process on how to set up your first blog, let us know what is blogging first?
Blogging is a weblog or a chronological publication of your thoughts. It is a website which is maintained by an individual or sometimes shared with someone. A typical blog contains text or sometimes pictures of personal ideas, personal things, hobbies, passion or something that caught the interest of the person writing the blog.
Blogger : This is the commonly called to a person who writes on a blog. Although blogger is a site created in August 1999 by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) and is now operated by google or sometimes called as blogspot.
Blogosphere: All blogs can be found on the net therefore community of all blogs are called blogosphere.
Types of Blogging:
There are different types of blogging depending on what is the preferred niche of the blogger. It can be personal, family blog, hubby, organizational, media type (news and entertainment) or everything under the sun.
Although blogging is one way to express a personal thought or ideas, sometimes blogging can also be a possible tool to attack or humiliate one individual, so we must be careful too on how to handle our own privacy.
If you are new to blogging, you would possibly ask yourself, “What should i blog?”, Is it hard to set up a blog? , How much time would i consume on making it? , What are the benefits i will get on blogging?
Creating a Blog:
Creating a blog is free and very easy that’s the main reason many are into it. You can set up your blog with the free supported blog hosting services like:
Blogger: A free blog hosted by Google. Easy to set-up.
WordPress: A personal publishing which enable you to create beautiful websites and blogs.
3. TypePad – Is a premier blogging service that can be set up in a minutes and offer great designs.
4. Tumblr : A microblogging format that allows user to post text, image and other things.
Whatever format you have chosen to begin your blogging career is up to you.
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