How To Start a Blog

Communicating to each others has became so easy these days via many Internet channels. You either communicate via email, forum, social networks such as facebook, tweeters, blogs etc etc.

Blogging is one of the popular channels to communicate these days but required a little more knowledge as opposed to forum or other social networks such as face book, tweeters etc. While each of these channels has its own advantages and disadvantages, I preferred to do blogging for a fact that it has a broader flexibility in terms of features, functions, lengths of post etc. While it is free to join blogger and wordpress, I prefer to host my blog with my own hosting company. By doing so, I own the blogs and because of this ownership, I can have more options at a later stage. Well, let's say you agree to use blog as a channel for communications as opposed to other channel, then it is time for you to set up your first blog.

Below are several simple steps to start your own blog:-

Using Blogger.com or Wordpress.net

Both are FREE blogging platforms. How are they differently from each others? Check this TQM Blog which is using the blogger.com platform. Click on this wordpress blog SWOT Analysis blog. Besides the differences in the layout, you can't really differentiate them. But all these are not critical at this moment as what you need is the basic fundamental about blogging.

Okay, let's go through the next steps. What you need to do is to go to the website of either blogger.com or wordpress.net. Once you are at either one of the homepage, locate the signup button and click on it. It will take you through a series of forms. What you need to do is to fill up the form accordingly and follow the instructions. Once you are done, your blogging account is set up. Note: You may required to validate your email address to confirm you are the right owner of the email address before you can logon to either wordpress or blogger

Once you logon to your account, you need to do the basic set up of you profile. This is am important step as you want blogger.com or wordpress.net recognize you and your profile.

the next step is for you to start to write your first post for your blog. You can write about your interest, family outings, gossip, providing tips, content about your interest etc. The list of articles you can put on a blog is almost unlimited. As a results, you may end up don't know what to write.

For the purpose of this article, I assume you start a blog is to use it to communicate to yoru friends, family members about your life, hobbies, happenings etc. I suggest newbie in blogging should start something like this to get a hang of what blogging is about. Once you gain enough experience, you may start to blog about topic that you are more specialist example: fishing, golf, investment, finance, personal advise etc.

Whichever topic you are going to write about, spend enough time to understand the features of your blog software. It is very obvious that blogger and wordpress are very different in terms of features and flexibilities. However, both of them has their own merits.

Once you have completed an article , you can publish it to the Internet. It is almost instant that you can find your blog with the url you have submitted during the set up. Start communicating to your friends about this url and they will be able to read your blog. As you get more and more friends to read your blog, it is important that you post articles to your blog frequently so that your blog always full of news and happenings.

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