Product Description

Your Complete Guide to Creating and Maintaining Weblogs
Weblogs offer an exciting new way to voice your opinions, share ideas with others, and help your business grow. Written by a team of weblog pioneers–the people who helped create Blogger and the MetaFilter community blog–this book shows you how to build, evolve and automate weblogs for personal and business use.
We Blog begins with a complete overview of blog history, the different kinds of weblogs that exist today, and more. It further explains how to create, expand, and promote your own blog, from getting the most out of a variety of blogging tools and services to building a blog for business and expanding your audience through syndication.
Packed with insider advice, practical exercises, and illuminating interviews, We Blog is your indispensable guide to the world of weblogs.
Build Your Own Blog Today and Get Connected
∗ Create your first blog in just a few minutes
∗ Find out about team blogs and business blogs
∗ Learn how to use six popular blogging tools
∗ Make blogging even easier with an automated weblog system
∗ Add a comment system to connect with your audience
∗ Build your audience by promoting or syndicating your blog

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1140433 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 350 pages

Review
"...a quintessential guide to this worldwide phenomenon..." (Gurteen Knowledge Management, 24 September 2002)

"...an excellent introduction to web logs..." (Knowledge Management, September 2002)

"...this book will help you get started..." (PC Utilities, December 2002)

"...contains everything you need to know to get started...a wealth of useful background information and insights an excellent introduction to weblogs..." (Knowledge Management, November 2002)

a wealth of information for the person who is interested in weblogs easy to read and contains useful information a handy companion..." (M2 Telecomworldwire, 20 November 2002)

"...If you want to get into blogging then this book is useful a practical how–to instruction book..." (Managing Information, May 2003)

"...overall this is a good read..." (Computer Bulletin, July 2003)

Review
"...a quintessential guide to this worldwide phenomenon..." (Gurteen Knowledge Management, 24 September 2002)

"...an excellent introduction to web logs..." (Knowledge Management, September 2002)

"...this book will help you get started..." (PC Utilities, December 2002)

"...contains everything you need to know to get startedâ ¦a wealth of useful background information and insights...an excellent introduction to weblogs..." (Knowledge Management, November 2002)

"...a wealth of information for the person who is interested in weblogs...easy to read and contains useful informationâ ¦a handy companion..." (M2 Telecomworldwire, 20 November 2002)

"...If you want to get into blogging then this book is useful...a practical how–to instruction book..." (Managing Information, May 2003)

"...overall this is a good read..."(Computer Bulletin, July 2003)

PC Utilities, December 2002
"…this book will help you get started…"

Customer Reviews

A rounded and well-balanced book
At heart this is a straightforward and workmanlike introduction to blogging (the practice of keeping a public, on-line, journal). It compares features of most of the major blogging tools, describes how to use them, and suggests practical exercises to encourage readers to get started. It even includes a pretty good glossary and simple HTML reference. All this should help make it easy to get started in blogging using this book.

The authors don't stop there, though. They add coverage of all kinds of alternative uses of blog technology, from corporate marketing to blogging for team building. Then they round out the book with chapters on how to publicise and market your own blog, and how to become part of the blogging community. The book also has a chapter on how blogs work, although it seems a bit one-sided, only really covering how one blog system works.

This book is a rounded and well-balanced coverage of all aspects of blogging. It's a little too tied to specific technology, and lacks some raw enthusiasm and sparkle, but still a great book for the first-time blogger.