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public relations. A Corporate Blog is published and used by an organisation. Corporate Blogs can be

           broadly classified into: Iinternal blogs  external blogs and   O blogs.

          Genre Blogs: Genre Blogs are meant for publication of articles on specific topics or a particular subject, such
           as political blogs, travel blogs, house blogs, fashion blogs, educational blogs, etc.
          Spam Blogs: Spam Blogs are used for the sole purpose of spamming. Spam blogs are usually type of scraper
           site in which the contents are either unauthentic text or merely stolen or copied from other websites. Such

           blogs usually contain a large number of links to sites associated with the blog which are often disreputable
           or useless websites.

                     N ot e s

                    A blogger
                    A blogger
                                a person who owns or runs or maintains a blog by posting articles or uploading new
                    A blogger is a person who owns or runs or maintains a blog by posting articles or uploading new
                                a person who owns or runs or maintains a blog by posting articles or uploading new
                              is
                              is
                    contents or posts and who generally shares up-to-date news, opinions, etc.
                    contents or posts and who generally shares up-to-date news, opinions, etc.
                    contents or posts and who generally shares up-to-date news, opinions, etc.
         i erence  et een  log and We site
         et us now learn about differences between a blog and website.
                                  Blog                                          Website

              One can find fre uent updates from author in  Once website is published, limited updates from
              blog.                                         author can be found.

              Reader can comment on published post.         In website, user can’t comment.


              Post contains details such as publishing date,  Content posted on website does  not contain
              author reference, categories, etc.            such information.


        Create and Publish Blog

         log account can be created or published through different website services.  ord ress is a popular web
        service to create informative websites or blogs. It has thousands of plugins and themes for customising the
        blogs.  o create an account in  ord ress:

        Step 1:  Connect to Internet-enabled network and open a web browser.
        Step 2:  Type the web address of the Blog, i.e., www.wordpress.com in the address bar of the web browser.

        Step 3:  Press Enter key. WordPress homepage will appear on the web browser.

        Step 4:  Click on Products menu. A drop-down menu appears on the screen.

        Step 5:  Click on Blogs option. ‘WordPress Blog’ webpage will appear on the web browser.

        Step 6:  Click on Start your blog button.











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