Thursday, May 21, 2009

Thursday's homework

I am working on preparing an 'Intro to Blogging' class for the Valley Board of Realtors. In my search for good blogging locations and information, I have started several new blogs. I am experimenting with different blog sites, trying to decide which ones are more user friendly, which ones have more options, which ones are free and which ones cost more $ than I care to spend.

There are many different options out there. The key is to determine what your goal is and then base your decision on that goal. If you are coming in as a beginner, take the least expensive, most user friendly option available. From there decide how serious you are going to be with blogging. If you will be blogging at least weekly, you may want to move up to a platform that has direct feeds and more bells and whistles. If you are like me and you HOPE to be able to blog at least once weekly you are probably okay to stay with your first option. If you are heavily in to social networking, there are blogs designed to save you time and $ as you post, sending each post to your social network sites.

So, after tomorrow maybe I will have decided just which blog I am going to use, how often I am going to use it and if I am willing to spend $ on it. We will see! Until then...back to the books!

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