11 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD START YOUR OWN BLOG

In this blog post I will point out some of the main reasons why you should start your own blog. I really hope that the list below will encourage you enough to take action.

1. Blogging is Easy

Yes blogging is actually really-really easy. The hardest part is setting it up but I’ve fully explained it on my homepage. If you are able to write emails, then you are also able to run a blog. With WordPress, you don’t have to deal with any website creation or HTML that is time consuming and boring. The only thing you need to do is customize your blog with themes, add some cool plugins and write content. Once you get the grip of it, you will know exactly what to do.

2. Google Loves Blogs

When your blog is ready, Google crawls your pages and it will be listed on Google search. It means you will start receiving additional visitors from the search engines. Isn’t that great? Search engines help to bring new people to your blog that can become your new friends or future business partners.

3. Blogging Makes You a Better Person

Having a blog will surely make you a better person. Why? Well, blogging obviously improves your writing skills as well as communication skills. You will start thinking more intentionally about who you are and who you want to become. Furthermore, when you send a job application, many employers look for employees who have blogs and write openly about their life and opinion. So it would be a definite “plus” for you.

4. Blogging Helps Other People

You can spread your information and knowledge through blogging. Heck, you can even help other people with specific problems. Let’s say you have blog about “mother care”. There are many women out there who are looking for help/solutions/ideas to raise up their children. Your knowledge or advice could be essential and very helpful. The same thing goes with any other blog topic. EVERY blog helps other people in their own way.

5. You Can Make Money with Blogging

You must have been heard or seen people who are making a lot of money by just blogging. Yes, it’s possible to monetize your blog. It takes time, but once you have enough readers you will start making some small, yet passive income. When time goes by, your traffic numbers will increase as well as the income. I’m not only talking about some few hundred dollars a month, many people earn their living from blogging.

6. Self-promotion and New Opportunities

When you have a blog you basically have a “tool” or a “channel” to promote yourself or make you look like an expert. You’ll be amazed how many people start to respect you and I know many cases when employers actually contact blog owner directly to offer working positions or joint venture opportunity. This will open you a lot of doors that you might have not been aware or dreamed of.

7. Use Blogs To Stay in Touch

Active people tend to have less time to sit on Facebook or any other social “chat-room”. Again, blog can help you to keep in touch with your friends, colleagues and relatives. They can easily read everything about your activities, ideas and success through your blog. Be wise and use this as a communication tool.

8. You Can Make World a Better Place

When you have a blog, you actually have a voice. This means you can spread out all the things you like or don’t like. And those things can help you to change the world. You have probably seen some blog articles or posts that have gone viral through Twitter and/or Facebook. Once they do that, they will get a lot of attention.

9. Blog Can Help To Grow Your Business

Does your company have a blog? If not, then you are missing a lot of it. Blogs can impart a lot of things about your company. For example, your potential clients can read interesting stories about your company success, ideas, strategies and even new products that might turn them into regular paying customers. That’s a huge opportunity that lot a of small and big firms are not using. Furthermore, companies who blog have 97% more inbound links (which means more traffic and visitors). See it yourself.

10. Blogging Can Become Your Hobby

If you have too much free time and you are constantly browsing on the Web then you should really consider starting a blog. You will soon get addicted to it (in a good way) and you will start learning a lot of things. So if you are bored right now then what are you waiting for? You will get a lot of good and new experiences, there is nothing to lose.

11. Blogging Helps to Improve Writing and Argumentation Skills (extra)

Back to the time when I was in college, my grammar, communication and argumentation skills were really poor. But these are very universal and necessary competences in everyday life and also in professional career. Blogging has had a huge impact on my writing skills since I started. Although it’s not perfect, I feel myself a lot more confident. The more you write, the easier it becomes. Blogging is quite new but there has already been done research about blogging and enhancing writing skills.

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How to create a Blog: Blogger Getting Started Guide.

This guide or tutorial will help you through on how to create a blog of your own, and help you familiarize yourself with the main features of Blogger

Create a blog

To start a blog with Blogger, visit the Blogger homepage, enter your username and password, and click Sign in. Enter a display name (e.g you can type one of your names) and accept Blogger's Terms of Service. Then click the Create a Blog link and get started!

Pick an address (URL) and a blog title of your choice, you can read what is Blog, what is Blogging and who is Blogger, to be well guided.

Then, choose your favorite blog template (this is how your blog will look when you publish it). Now get creative, add information to your personal profile, and customize how your blog looks, if you feel up to it, click save.  Start blogging now!

Dashboard

Your Dashboard, as always, is your starting point. This is where all your blogs are listed, and you can click on the icons next to them to perform various actions on each blog, such as:

    ·         Writing a new post: Just click on the orange Pencil icon on your Dashboard to access the Post Editor.

   ·         Viewing your posts: The gray Post List icon will take you to a list of your published and drafted posts for a specific blog.

   ·         Catching up on your favorite blogs: Below the list of your own blogs, you’ll see a list of the blogs you follow with an excerpt from their latest posts.

   ·         Everything else: Check out the drop-down menu next to the Post List icon for a quick link to:

     o    Overview

     o    Posts

     o    Pages

     o    Comments

     o    Stats

     o    Earnings

     o    Layout

     o    Template

     o    Settings

 

Overview

On the Overview tab, you can see your blog’s activity, news and tips from the Blogger team, and recent Blogs of Note.

Write your post

Once you've signed in to Blogger, you'll see your dashboard with your list of blogs. Here's what you need to do:

1.     Click the orange pencil icon to write a new post, and enter anything you want to share with the world.

2.     Next, you'll see the Post Editor page. Start by giving your post a title , then enter the post itself.

3.     When you're done, click the Preview button at the top to make sure it's ready to go, and then click the Publish button to publish your post.

 

Add an image

You can add an image from your computer or the Web to your blog. Click the image icon in the Post Editor toolbar. A window appears prompting you to browse for an image file on your computer, or enter the URL of an image on the Web.

Once you've selected your image, you can then choose a layout to determine how your image will appear in your post:

·         The 'Left', 'Center', and 'Right' options allow you to customize the way your blog text will flow around your image.

·         The 'Image size' options will determine how large the image will appear within your post.

Click UPLOAD IMAGES to add your image, and then click DONE when the notification window appears telling you that 'Your image has been added.' Blogger will then return you to the post editor, where you'll see your image ready to be published to your blog.

You can also publish images to your blog using your mobile device, Google's free photo software Picasa, or a third-party service like flickr.

Add a video

To add a video to your blog post, click the film strip icon in the Post Editor toolbar above where you compose your blog text. A window appears prompting you to 'Add a video to your blog post.'

Click Browse to select the video file from your computer that you'd like to upload. Note that Blogger accepts AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real and Windows Media files and that your video must be less than 100MB in size.

Before uploading your video, add a title in the 'Video Title' box and agree to the Terms and Conditions (you'll only have to do this the first time that you upload a video with Blogger). Then click UPLOAD VIDEO.

While your video uploads, you'll see a placeholder in the post editor showing where your video will appear. You'll also see a status message below the post editor letting you know that your upload is in progress. Depending on the size of your video, this usually takes about five minutes. When it is complete, your video will appear in the post editor.

Customize

Your template is a fun way to customize your blog. When creating a new blog, you're first asked to choose a default template, this is the basic design of your blog. You can choose from many templates for your blog; simply pick the one that best fits your needs.

Once on the Template tab, you can either click on the orange Customize button to get started with our easy-to-use WYSIWYG (“What you see is what you get”) template designer, or choose one of our many default templates. If you’d like to edit the HTML of your blog, just click the gray Edit HTML button.

In addition, you can customize your blog's design using our intuitive drag-and-drop interface. You can also add powerful gadgets such as slideshows, user polls, or even AdSense ads. If you want more precise control over your blog's layout, you can also use the Edit HTML feature. To edit your blog's layout, follow these steps:

1.     Click Layout from the drop-down menu on your dashboard below the blog you would like to customize.

2.     From there, click Edit to edit existing gadgets, or Add a Gadget to add new ones.

3.   To add a new gadget after you've clicked Add a Gadget, simply click the plus sign next to your desired gadget. You can choose from gadgets by category, or search for a specific gadget in the top right of the pop-up window.

4. Once you've added the necessary information to your selected gadget, click the orange Save arrangement button. Your layout changes will appear instantly.

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ICT: Types, Importance, Advantages and Disadvantages.

In this post you will know the three main types of information and communication technology system (ICT).

Types of ICT systems : The are three main types of ICT system, they are:

1. Information systems: This type of ICT system is focused on managing data and information. For examples: these are a sports club membership system or a supermarket stock system. 

2. Control systems: These ICT systems are mostly part to control machines. They use input, process and output, but the output may be moving a robot arm to weld a car chassis rather than information.

3. Communications systems: The output of these ICT systems is the successful transport of data from one place to another.

Importance of ICT

The definition of ICT itself is the set of activities that facilitate by electronic means the processing, transmission, and display of information. ICT has become a powerful tool in the fight against world poverty, providing developing countries with an unprecedented opportunity to meet vital development goals, such as poverty reduction, basic health care, and education, far more effectively than before. 

Nowadays, ICT has an important role in the world since we are now in the information age era. With ICT, the company can make the business easier to happen with the client, supplier and the distributor. ICT also involving in our daily life, use in the internal interest. 

Therefore, the number of ICT user in the world is rapidly increasing. The lack of appropriate information at the right time will result in low productivity, low quality research works, and waste of time to pursue information and even to do research which actually others had done or in other countries. Moreover, nowadays ICT cannot be separated with our daily needs.

Advantages of using ICT

* Using Microsoft word and software like Microsoft Publisher is that you can change the text, mistakes without having to start from the very beginning again.

* Work is easy to save and document, rather than someone keeping them in folders were they can get misplaced.

* You can make back up files quickly.

* Can keep all files under one folder e.g. communications

* Crop pictures down accurately

* Use scanners to scan in pictures form magazine and books.

* Printer that produce high quality work

* Access to the internet

* You can email letters and document to people all over the world.

Disadvantages of using ICT

* The internet server can go down randomly, so you cannot connect to a webpage.

* Networks can get hacked into.

* Shopping online leaves shoppers prone to online credit card theft.

* Viruses can come through the internet damaging the files in your computer

* Some software can be difficult for some generations and people to learn how to use

* People start to rely on computers too much and use them to do everything.

* Repetitive strain injury, strain on tendon in the arms, back problems and painful eyes are caused from prolonged use of computers.

* Work sometimes does not look exactly like what you want it to look like.

ICT is a broad subject or topic, there are lots of things you need to know concerning ICT, please keep visiting and have patience when reading my post, i will post more topics which come within ICT.

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What is Blog, What is Blogging and Who is Blogger.

Some of the first questions every person who is new to Blogging World are; What is Blog? What is Blogging? and Who is a Blogger? This post is worth exploring for those people who are new to Blogging world and doesn’t know what it really means. Let me explain it to you one after the other. 

Actually Blogging is a very Creative thing to do. It’s totally different and awesome thing which makes you feel better. Many people do it as a Passion and many others do Blogging to make money from their blogs. Lets go In Details, Blogging is a Term Derived from word “Blog“.

What is a Blog?

A Blog is an abbreviated word used for term “Weblog“, This is a word used to describe different type of Websites and Portals which share information on specific topics or wider categories. It usually includes Features like Blog Posts, Videos, Comments, Links to other websites, Widgets, etc.

What is Blogging?

Each and every skill you need to run and manage a Blog is called blogging. Blogging includes Skills like Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing, Writing, Editing and Publishing Posts, Designing and Maintaining the Design of your Website, etc.

You need to learn every skill to be a Blogger, such as:

=> You should be a good writer to write lot of Unique and Quality content for your website.

=> You should be a good Search Engine Optimizer to Optimize your blog according to rules and regulations set by Search engines.
=> You Need to be a Social Media Marketer and Optimizer to influence your websites or blogs with social media Power which is very strong these days. It is true that you can hire Experts or freelancers for each job but you will need a lot of money for doing that, so rely on yourself and learn each and every skill slowly so that you could become a Good Blogger.

Some questions you may likely ask as someone new to Blogging world

On what Topic Blogs are Made?

Blogs can be created on any topic in which you are expert. Let’s suppose you are expert in coffee-making you should start a Coffee blog. Or if you are expert in Search Engine Optimization you should start an SEO blog where you will share tips for better Search Engine Optimization to help people to do Better SEO of their websites or Blogs.

Blogs are often made on topics like Political News and Political Topics, Sports, Web design, Blogging Tips, Technology Gadgets, etc. I’ll recommend you to make a Blog on topic you are expert in.

Is Investment needed to Make a Blog?

Whenever you start a new Business you need to invest some money, Same case here that you need to invest money if you want to start a Blog for making money from it, But if you want to start a blog just for fun and enjoyment you can do it free by using WordPress.com or Blogger.com (I will Explain this later).

Have you make up your mind to be a blogger, please click here now to get well details on how to start your own blog.

Hope you got Answers of Each Question in your mind about Blog, Blogging and Blogger. In case I did not answer your question about which you are curious, Feel free to ask In Comments section below.

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Definition of ICT with reference to wikipedia, dictionaries and authors.

Information and communications technology ( ICT ) according to wikipedia is often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT), but is a more specific term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (i.e telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information.

According to Cambridge dictionary, ICT is abbreviation for  information and communication technology, which means the use of computers and other electronic equipment and systems to collect, store, use, and send data electronically.

According to Oxford learners dictionaries, ICT is the abbreviation for ‘information and communications technology’, which means the study of the use of computers, the Internet, video, and other technology as a subject at school.

According to Victoria L. Tinio [Director for e-Learning of the Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development (FIT-ED) Manila, Philippines], Author of the book ICT in education, ICTs stand for information and communication technologies and are defined, for the purposes of this primer, as a “diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, and to create, disseminate, store, and manage information.” These technologies include computers, the Internet, broadcasting technologies (radio and television), and telephony.

In general or summary, ICT (information and communications technology - or technologies) is an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application, encompassing: radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software, satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and applications associated with them, such as video conferencing and distance learning.

ICT is a broad subject or topic, there are lots of things you need to know concerning ICT, please keep visiting and have patience when reading my post, i will post more topics which come within ICT.

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