CAL2005: Blog On: What's a blog and how to I create one?

Shelly Walchak, Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC)

• What is a weblog
• Components of a blog
• Comments
• regularly updated
• reverse chronological
• History of blogs
• Origins
• rise to influence
• the first controversy
• Trent Lott / Strom Thurmond comments
• Documentation
• blogging goes mainstream
• Definitions
• Blogger
• Blogosphere
• Blogstorm
• Blogrolling
• Splog
• Types
• Organizational
• Political
• Corporate
• Personal
• media blogs
• Steps
• blogger.com
• create an account
• name your blog
• choose a template
• Next steps
• Settings
• Posting
• Publishing
• Permissions
• Members
• template