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Blogs
What if, you could maintain your diary on the web? Yes! You can make your diary on WWW and publish
your articles or ideas on the Internet by blogging. Blog refers to the personal content on the net which is
uploaded by a user. It refers to the online publication or uploading of personal or general information for
restricted viewing. It contains the personal content on the website that is maintained by individuals with
regular entries of personal comments, descriptions of events, personal news or other material which can
be in the form of text, audio, video, graphics, etc.
Blogs have evolved since the logging of personal information on the web during 1997 by Jorn Barger.
Initially, blogs were text documents that were manually updated as components of websites. It had
limitations as large number of uploaded publications could not be browsed easily. But with the passage of
time and development of new tools on the web, the publications could be managed in a more organized
way, as the articles could be browsed in reverse chronological order which led to broader usage of blogs.
There are many blogging sites, for example ‘www.blogger.com’, ‘www.bloglines.com’, etc. Blogs can be
categorized into different types like :
Personal Blogs
Personal blogs are the most common and traditional blogs. Personal blogs can be sentimental
which can sometimes be read by the blogger only. It also allows bloggers to share their thoughts
and feelings instantaneously with friends or others. An example of a personal blog is Twitter
(www.twitter.com).
Corporate Blogs
Blogs can be uploaded for business or commercial purposes. Such blogs can be used internally to enhance
the communication among different employees of an organization or for taking feedback from customers
or for providing information in general for marketing, promotion of brand or public relations.
A corporate blog is published and used by an organization to reach its organizational goals. Corporate
blogs can be broadly classified into: Internal blogs, External blogs and CEO blogs.
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