Why Blog?

by Eric Herberholz – [ source | blogger | wordpress | re-post | Troubleshooting blog | old ]

I am using my blogs1 as my Personal knowledge base per a suggestion from Bill Ives (co-author of What blogs and wikis bring to business and knowledge management). Bill Ives, a non-HP employee, and KM Industry Leader, spoke at HP’s KM Lead bi-weekly virtual meeting on January 25, 2006 about What blogs and wikis bring to business and knowledge management. He really inspired me to pursue blogs as a solution at work. I am also using blogging as a means of sharing knowledge with my teammates. I am very excited about what I am doing with my blogs on the HP-Intranet (RSS feeds available from planet.cv.hp.com). I have taken the HP Blogging Class2: HP Blogging Guidelines and Policies (32395). I also have a number1 of blogs on the Internet. In my opinion, Blog and Wiki technologies are merging. In March 2007, I started the new blog HPUXTroubleshooting at blog2.cv.hp.com and plan on drafting troubleshooting information there, and then publishing at HPedia, a MediaWiki for, and about HP, on the HP Intranet.

References: Why Blog? How to Start? HP Internet blogs (e.g. Marketing excellence) HP Intranet blogs (e.g. HP Employee Purchase program pilot weblog, HPUXTroubleshooting) HP Blogging Class: HP Blogging Guidelines and Policies (32395). What blogs and wikis bring to business and knowledge management. Bill Ives

¹ Some of my Internet Blogs 360.yahoo.com, Bloglines, blogsome, Blogger, flickr, LiveJournal, MySpace, Opera, Performancing, Vox, WebRing, Windows.Live.Spaces, WordPress
² The goal of this course is to provide information and promote appropriate participation in the blogging community. It is designed to help HP employees make the most of blogging’s potential by providing basic guidelines, recommendations, and best practices for participating in the blogosphere in a manner that supports HP corporate culture, commitments, and legal obligations.

Blogging – A Starters Guide:

• Determine the purpose of your blog. At the very least, it can be used for your personal knowledge base, journal, etc (Why I Blog.)
• Make some choices:
  • Choose an editor application*. For example, because you can’t always just depend upon a blog’s editor, to have all the features you want/like/need, etc.
  • Choose a blog, from various blog providers**. Try out several, and then choose one that appeals to you (e.g. for ease of managment, appearance, etc.)
  • (optional) Choose a photo hosting provider***, so that you can post pictures there, and then link to them from your blog.
  • (optional) Choose means of earning money****
• Starting Blogging.
• Enjoy.

References:

• Check PageRank, Backlinks, Indexed Pages, Rankings and more (xinureturns.com)
• My blogging-related tags at del.icio.us: del.icio.us/eric.k.herberholz [ blogging, entrepreneur, makemoneyonline, moneymaker ]
• *Editor applications (e.g. Flock’s Blog tool, Google Docs, VIM, SeaMonkey Composer, Outlook Mail Message)
• **Blog Providers (e.g. 360.yahoo.com, Bloglines, blogsome, Blogger, flickr, jaiku, LiveJournal, MySpace, Opera, Performancing, twitter, Vox, WebRing, Windows.Live.Spaces, WordPress)
• ***Photo providers (flickr, GooglePhotos, photobucket, webshots).
• ****Earning Money providers. For example: www.livingroom.org.au/photolog has links to many sites.