blog

(noun)

A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal while readers may comment on posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc. ) Entries typically appear in reverse chronological order.

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(noun)

A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the internet and consisting of posts typically displayed in reverse chronological order.

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Examples of blog in the following topics:

  • Blogs, Podcasts, and Cyberspace

    • More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed.
    • The rise of Twitter and other "micro-blogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into societal news streams.
    • Although not a requirement, most good quality blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other on the blogs.
    • A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic.
    • Meanwhile, an increasing number of experts began blogging, making blogs a source of in-depth analysis.

  • Digital Marketing Characteristics

    • Websites, blogs, and streaming media (audio and video) are examples of pull digital marketing.
    • Companies frequently use their corporate websites and blogs to build authority and credibility in their field, as well as improve their search engine optimization.
    • These digital marketing tactics include display advertising on websites and blogs.
    • Brands can gain web traffic from media publications and blogs that use their press releases as information sources.
    • Digital marketers often incorporate blogs and other social media elements in their corporate websites to encourage web traffic.

  • Defining Social Media

    • Web blogs: Some of the oldest and most popular forms of social media are blogs.
    • Users can also maintain "vlogs," or video blogs, featuring shared or homemade videos.
    • Blogging websites include WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr.
    • Microblogs: Microblogs are blogging tools that feature short posts, as opposed to journal-style posts.
    • Wikipedia), blogs and microblogs (e.g.

  • References

    • Available online at http://wangtaoandlixia.blog.163.com/blog/static/4256638200831122124829/

  • Implementing Computer Mediated Communications in the Classroom

    • Most blogs have searchable archives.
    • Updated blogs can be "pushed" to users via RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) into a blog reader (a tool that allows users to track all of the blogs they are interested in one location).
    • Students can be asked to blog (or reflect) about their learning experiences.
    • Students can be asked to blog writing samples (for creative writing classes.)
    • Students can be asked to comment on blog entries made by other classmates.

  • Websites for Educators

    • Blogs allow students to work together to create single projects and share ideas in a collaborative setting and encourage the development of digital citizenship skills.
    • Edublogs, a popular educational blogging service used by many large universities, is a good place to start exploring the world of blogging.
    • Edudemic, a blog focused on the intersection of education and technology

  • Scenario

    • Jones has also decided to use other supporting technologies such as blogs and wikis that exist outside the CMS (but can be linked inside the CMS) and the virtual classroom to provide what he hopes is a successful learning experience for the students in his class.
    • Each student will be asked to set up a blog where they will journal about their learning experience, discuss the subtopic they have picked, and post critical reviews of other blogs related to the class focus and their subtopic.
    • In order for communication tools such as blogs, wikis, instant messaging, chat and virtual classrooms to be used effectively, experienced instructional designers need to work with instructors to ensure that scaleable learning environments are developed.
    • In developing assignments that encourage students to blog, he is providing students an opportunity to journal about their learning experiences and to read and remark on the experiences of others.

  • Social Media

    • Limited only by the imaginations of Internet Web designers, social media offers marketing vehicles, such as magazines, forums or discussion sites, weblogs, social blogs, microblogs, instant messaging, email, crowdsourcing distributed to a specific group of people, photographs or pictures, articles, video, and wikis or collaborated websites allowing additions, modifications, and deletions.
    • There are six ways social media functions: a). collaborative–Wikipedia, blogs, and microblogs, such as Twitter; b) content communities (e.g.
    • Blogging gets a product to the public within minutes and without any technical, production, or print requirements.
    • Most Web space hosts provide a free blogging platform, such as WordPress, for customer use.
    • Blogs are automatically updated with each post and are accessed through a feed.

  • Digital Marketing

    • Websites, blogs and streaming media (audio and video) are examples of pull digital marketing.
    • Websites, blogs and streaming media (audio and video) are also examples of pull digital marketing.
    • Push digital marketing technologies are those in which the marketer sends a message without the consent of the recipients, such as display advertising on websites and news blogs.

  • Measuring Effectiveness of Public Relations Efforts

    • Social media measurementrefers to tracking various social content such as blogs, wikis, news sites, micro-blogs such as Twitter, social networking sites, video/photo sharing websites, forums, message boards, blogs, and other user-generated content to determine the volume and sentiment of online conversation about a brand or topic, and to gain insight on consumer choices.