Once again, I somehow completely missed this assignment! Now that I have less on my plate, there should be no additional missing links!
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CEP811 Session 1 Blog Assignment:
"Discuss the differences between traditional web pages and blogs (1 paragraph)"
In order to make sure I understood the difference between web pages and blogs, I did a little digging and found some interesting information presented by Internet expert Dave Taylor in his blog: http://www.intuitive.com/blog/whats_the_difference_between_a_blog_and_a_web_site.html .
Dave says "Search engines positively love Weblogs because they're content-centric and because they're typically updated with great frequency. Put those together and it's true that organizations with Weblogs are far more findable than those with just a Web site". I was really interested to hear this information because I didn't realize that "searchability" was a big difference between websites and blogs. I thought that a blog was just a babbling journal by people who liked to talk and write, and that a website was really the place to find information. Well, maybe when blogs first started they were just one-person journals, but now blogs are interactive information sources. Blogs are somewhat similar to wikis in the sense that anyone can start one and anyone can add information. Websites can be started by an individual also, but they can be more difficult to update and are typically not seen as an ongoing stream of continuously updated information. So, this new information about content and "searchability" makes me wonder about adding and updating content on our office website. We currently use twitter and have an RSS feed, but we have not yet added a blog. I think I will bring this up in future tech meetings. As blogs have evolved, they have become more of a source of interactive information exchange as opposed to a one-person journal.
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