Juliana Recino
4/13/10
Business Computer Applications, Mr. Elsesser
Business Computer Applications, Mr. Elsesser
Period 3
“Critical Analysis of Blogs”
Blogging is a huge part of society today and it is used by thousands of people daily to network and communicate. It not only unites us, but it brings out our individuality and helps to embrace our interests and curiosity with other people.The daily log has been a common form of writing and reflection since Classical times. People have used them to record career progress and personal development, jot down parts of poems or stories or random musings, even to sketch studies for paintings or other art projects. Journals have played an important role in communication, from a way to add women’s voices to collections of literature, to having students keep journals in order to improve their writing. Now, many people are keeping their journals online instead of in a notebook. In 1997, Jorn Barger started using the term weblog to refer to his online journal, Robot Wisdom and other authors of sites similar to his followed. Weblogs, or “blogs” as they are most often called, are Web sites that are updated frequently, most often with links to other sites and commentary on the other sites’ content. Blogs combine musings, memories, jokes, haikus, rants, and essays. They can be devoted to only one topic, or they can reflect what the author is interested in at any given time. They can have one author—authors of blogs are known as “bloggers”—or thousands of authors. All posts to the blog are time-stamped with the most recent post at the top, making their structure not that of a logical argument, but a reverse chronological structure governed by impulsiveness and originality.
Blogs are very beneficial in the areas of business, entertainment, news, social life, and recreation. Blogs can help maintain lots of different aspects in the working world. It creates quick and easy communication because it is simple to set up even for the technologically challenged. They have an inexpensive setup because most blogs are cheap while most are usually free. They help to provides easy access to company news because bogs have the ability to inform customers of any changes, new products, latest offers and much more. This, in turn, can lead to direct sales. Blogs helps companies appear accessible and authoritative because clients and customers are accessed freedom for all your visitors to post comments. Also, customers will be much more likely to use your service or purchase your goods if they see you as an authority on a particular subject. Lastly, they build relationships. A difficult aspect of building a relationship with customers is building a bond with them. A blog enables you to speak more freely and in a more informal and personable style than your Web site does, and your readers will soon feel like they know you. The more they know, like and trust you the more likely they are to visit your main site, click your links and purchase your product. Blogging not only helps businesses, but they helps transport the news to the world, socialize with people of similar interests to your own and even for simple enjoyment or pleasure.
Blogs have their numerous benefits, however they do have some cons. Blogging without the right mindset is perhaps one of the worst things you can do when blogging. Let’s say you work for a large company and you tend to share a lot of knowledge with your customers through the use of blogs. This is a good thing, until you’re doing it for the wrong reasons. When a person blogs a lot and is fairly decent at it, it can lead to fame in the virtual world, with readers from all over the country and world going online and visiting your blog site. The problem with this is when you start becoming popular you don’t want to lose your status. So you’re more then likely going to be trying to write either more or better blogs to keep your readers coming back, while staying consistent. Now the problem comes when you honestly don’t have anything to write about yet you write anyways. This is where blogging can turn pointless and risk turning into an all about you article. We, the readers, already know you’re an awesome writer; you don’t need to go on an ego trip and brag about yourself, doing so will typically do the opposite of what you want and turn off readers from your site. Blogs also take away the great feeling of finding things on your own through research and exploration, and blogs aren’t always accurate. Which leads to the next point, you don’t want to believe everything someone says or blogs about. Don’t be a sheep, no matter how popular or famous someone is, do some of your own research as well. Blogs tend to be a one way conversation, you post and receive a comment, typically will not go any further. When you do actually write a good blog you have to compete with others just to try and get ranked or even have your blog read. Another downside to blogs is you don’t get paid to write them unless you are extremely good. It’s also hard to be original these days because so many people have written about the same or similar topics over and over. Therefore, that explains how blogging can sometimes be abused and can cause us to lack our human nature and have others disapprove of our blogging.
In sum, blogging is a new form of electronic chat that continues to gain popularity. It allows for freedom of expression and audience interaction. Blogging can be viewed in the context of a university or an organization, as a site for family and friends to interact with each other, as a tool to help with academic research, or simply as a voice for oneself. Blogging is a new way of communicating, and academics in the fields of public speaking, composition studies, and technical communication can augment their understanding of the nature of communication by giving it critical thought and study. The power of the media is in our hands and whether personal or professional, we are the people that can change technology.
Works Cited
http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2004/nt_2004_08_23_blogging.htm
http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/06/a-short-history-of-blogging/
http://bloggingpodcasting.suite101.com/article.cfm/what_is_blogging_
“Critical Analysis of Blogs”
Blogging is a huge part of society today and it is used by thousands of people daily to network and communicate. It not only unites us, but it brings out our individuality and helps to embrace our interests and curiosity with other people.The daily log has been a common form of writing and reflection since Classical times. People have used them to record career progress and personal development, jot down parts of poems or stories or random musings, even to sketch studies for paintings or other art projects. Journals have played an important role in communication, from a way to add women’s voices to collections of literature, to having students keep journals in order to improve their writing. Now, many people are keeping their journals online instead of in a notebook. In 1997, Jorn Barger started using the term weblog to refer to his online journal, Robot Wisdom and other authors of sites similar to his followed. Weblogs, or “blogs” as they are most often called, are Web sites that are updated frequently, most often with links to other sites and commentary on the other sites’ content. Blogs combine musings, memories, jokes, haikus, rants, and essays. They can be devoted to only one topic, or they can reflect what the author is interested in at any given time. They can have one author—authors of blogs are known as “bloggers”—or thousands of authors. All posts to the blog are time-stamped with the most recent post at the top, making their structure not that of a logical argument, but a reverse chronological structure governed by impulsiveness and originality.
Blogs are very beneficial in the areas of business, entertainment, news, social life, and recreation. Blogs can help maintain lots of different aspects in the working world. It creates quick and easy communication because it is simple to set up even for the technologically challenged. They have an inexpensive setup because most blogs are cheap while most are usually free. They help to provides easy access to company news because bogs have the ability to inform customers of any changes, new products, latest offers and much more. This, in turn, can lead to direct sales. Blogs helps companies appear accessible and authoritative because clients and customers are accessed freedom for all your visitors to post comments. Also, customers will be much more likely to use your service or purchase your goods if they see you as an authority on a particular subject. Lastly, they build relationships. A difficult aspect of building a relationship with customers is building a bond with them. A blog enables you to speak more freely and in a more informal and personable style than your Web site does, and your readers will soon feel like they know you. The more they know, like and trust you the more likely they are to visit your main site, click your links and purchase your product. Blogging not only helps businesses, but they helps transport the news to the world, socialize with people of similar interests to your own and even for simple enjoyment or pleasure.
Blogs have their numerous benefits, however they do have some cons. Blogging without the right mindset is perhaps one of the worst things you can do when blogging. Let’s say you work for a large company and you tend to share a lot of knowledge with your customers through the use of blogs. This is a good thing, until you’re doing it for the wrong reasons. When a person blogs a lot and is fairly decent at it, it can lead to fame in the virtual world, with readers from all over the country and world going online and visiting your blog site. The problem with this is when you start becoming popular you don’t want to lose your status. So you’re more then likely going to be trying to write either more or better blogs to keep your readers coming back, while staying consistent. Now the problem comes when you honestly don’t have anything to write about yet you write anyways. This is where blogging can turn pointless and risk turning into an all about you article. We, the readers, already know you’re an awesome writer; you don’t need to go on an ego trip and brag about yourself, doing so will typically do the opposite of what you want and turn off readers from your site. Blogs also take away the great feeling of finding things on your own through research and exploration, and blogs aren’t always accurate. Which leads to the next point, you don’t want to believe everything someone says or blogs about. Don’t be a sheep, no matter how popular or famous someone is, do some of your own research as well. Blogs tend to be a one way conversation, you post and receive a comment, typically will not go any further. When you do actually write a good blog you have to compete with others just to try and get ranked or even have your blog read. Another downside to blogs is you don’t get paid to write them unless you are extremely good. It’s also hard to be original these days because so many people have written about the same or similar topics over and over. Therefore, that explains how blogging can sometimes be abused and can cause us to lack our human nature and have others disapprove of our blogging.
In sum, blogging is a new form of electronic chat that continues to gain popularity. It allows for freedom of expression and audience interaction. Blogging can be viewed in the context of a university or an organization, as a site for family and friends to interact with each other, as a tool to help with academic research, or simply as a voice for oneself. Blogging is a new way of communicating, and academics in the fields of public speaking, composition studies, and technical communication can augment their understanding of the nature of communication by giving it critical thought and study. The power of the media is in our hands and whether personal or professional, we are the people that can change technology.
Works Cited
http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2004/nt_2004_08_23_blogging.htm
http://www.blogherald.com/2005/03/06/a-short-history-of-blogging/
http://bloggingpodcasting.suite101.com/article.cfm/what_is_blogging_
No comments:
Post a Comment