What is a blog and what do you do with it?

Question

All I want to know is what is a blog and what do you do with it when you get it ?

Answer 1

A bog is  a journal or diary. You can type just about anything you want.

You can keep it private to you can share it with on line friends.

Usually anything you want to say.Helpful hints and how your day went. Or just to have family to share messages with and photos.

You can do what ever you like as long as it is clean if you share with family or friends.

It is fun and something to do on a rainy day.

Answer 2

Hello there.

The above posters pretty much described what a blog is and ways to use it.

Being that I'm an entrepreneur, I'd like to add how a blog can be a useful tool for businesses. A blog can be a marketing tool. Imagine you own a company and you sell things. You also have a blog that you write in (mine, for example, is about learning and growing as an entrepreneur) and have 10,000 subscribers to your blog.

Every time you write an entry, it gets sent out to 10,000 people who opt in to receive your emails. It's called permission marketing and is a valuable tool in business. But . . . you have to be reeeeeally careful if you choose to use your blog as a marketing tool.

If you're interested, I wrote a blog article about using social media (blogs, forums, etc) to market your business.

http://eventurebiz.com/blog/using-social...

In effect, if you use your blog as a marketing tool, you must use it in a way that you are selling without selling, make sense?

Hope this was helpful.

John

http://www.eVentureBiz.com/

Answer 3

yea thats wat u do lolz

Answer 4

Since you posted this question in the Y!360 category, then that's how I will frame my answer:

A blog is an online journal of your thoughts. People write them for various reasons, but Yahoo! 360 is designed as a social networking tool with friends/family or to meet new people. A blog is one of those tools.

I write mine to keep my friends/family updated on my activities and thoughts. I express myself better in writing. People read blogs out of curiosity about other people's lives and opinions.

A good blog to me:

1) Mainly, is one that is authentic. Your thoughts, your creative background, your interests - there's only one "you," so be expressive! I know, that's corny, but it's true.

2) Keep it updated.

3) Theme... is your blog a commentary on the latest news? Is it a diatribe about activities in your daily life? Is it only about your pet's quirks? A theme isn't necessary, but a purpose helps. Now, if you just want to write anything that comes to mind, well, try to make it sound like an interesting read.

4) A sense of fun - humor always helps.

See the 360 team post on "How to blog":

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Eha...

See the 360 team post on "What makes a 360 page interesting?":

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Eha...

Press release that explains "What is yahoo 360?":

http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release122...