Saturday, January 07, 2006

Blogging 101

Welcome to the Advanced Comm. Skills class. To get started in the world of blogging this semester, each student must post a comment here regarding your overall impression of blogging. Do this AFTER you have browsed the recommended blog sites and have read the blog articles assigned in class. Be sure to sign your name to your comment.

Keep in mind, I am also new to blogging, so we're exploring this together. If you're an experienced blogger, feel free to share you're know-how with the class. The idea is to learn some of the new tools which many corporate communications practitioners consider essential. Each student will build a personal blog site throughout the semester.

It should be an interesting ride. --Professor Flournoy

4 comments:

BeckerDallas said...

My impression of blogs is that they are in fact on-line journals, but more. With a blog, writers have no worries about content being edited by someone other than themselves. It is a personalized publication of ideas, experiences, beliefs, ect. Needless to say, if Ben Franklin was alive today, he'd have a blog or two! Before this class, I didn't get blogs. I never understood why someone would put their diary on the internet for others to read. Now, I have a whole new perspective.

Kim Holland

Ashley Whisnant said...

Blogs, as of last year at this time I hardly knew what the word meant. I'm so excited to be in this class and fingure out how useful these things can be. So far, just by reading blogs of PR professionals and those of my collegues, I'm realizing how important blogs may become to communications as an industry as well as a distinguising skill that may get us hired. This class should be interesting not to mention a serious challege for my techinical abilities. Looking forward to the ride!

Ashley Whisnant

Anonymous said...

I'm excited to work with blogs due to its increasing popularity in the workforce today. From what I have seen, it can serve many purposes and can be a place for people who love comic books to come and share their opinions or a continual letter to the editor concerning current events and business decisions. It is whatever you want it to be, and can do whatever you want it to do.

Blake said...

Hello there Nina and students of SMU - if you ever want to ping me to discuss or brainstorm some ideas please feel free to do so. I run a PR blog for entry level PR practitioners and have been blogging for close to a year. You can reach me at blake.barbera@gmail.com.

Best,
-Blake