Blogging Reflection

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“What did I learn from this experience?”
I have to say after 15 weeks of maintaining a blog; I have realized that I am not of the blogging type, if there is such a type. Keeping up a blog takes more time than I thought that it would and more creativity than I think I give myself credit for.
When blogging the information in my opinion, should not only be resourceful, but also capture the interest of a variety of readers. This was difficult for me. However my fellow bloggers have a great talent for this type of communication. They provided an abundant amount of helpful websites, videos, and podcasts for all of us to gain understanding and discover new ideas.
I believe that a major requirement in order to maintain a constructive and functional blog is for the blog creator to have a love of/for communication. As a trainer, most people would think that I would love to talk, but this is not true. I love my job as a trainer, but when my day comes to an end, I prefer not to communicate with the outside, in any form if I don’t have to and instead go home and relax with my family. Another part of my personality is that if I have to talk I prefer to talk on the phone and not via a computer. I think most people that blog enjoy writing and journaling and not talking on the phone. Se blogging is an easier alternative form of communication for them.


“What can I do to improve my blogging?”
As I said above, if I had more dedicated blog time and more of a desire to blog, this would eventually help me improve on my existing blog and the information that I provided.
I also think that if I was going to continue blogging in the future that by blogging about something that I enjoyed talking about and not something that was assigned would make the experience more interesting for me and my readers. Consequently this may create a more time for me to blog and even compel me to learn to love it.

Some of the sites that I found that use RSS feeds to their advantage are

NASS (National Agricultural Statistic Service) uses the service for both News and Coming Events. In the future NASS expects to offer an RSS material based on user feedback.

IBM has also created a website to aid e-businesses to globalize there business
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/rss/index.jsp

A group called the K-12 High Speed Network of California had a program last year that taught participants about E-rate and how to use and RSS feed to receive the training information.

ftp://ftp.cpuc.ca.gov/puc/telco/public+programs/program_update_august07%5B1%5D.pdf

This website is so easy to use. It helps the user create an RSS feed or and RSS reader, by providing a tutorial for the user to follow. This article also talks about another syndicated format product called Atom. The article describes the RSS feed process, but also shows the reader visually how it works.

http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.php

This site talks about the latest website trends which includes, RSS feeds, Podcasts and Webinars

http://www.inherent.com/documents/Latest_and_Greatest.pdf

This article by Peter Cliff helps the user create an RSS feed, as well as describes what RSS is and why the user should have it. At the end of the article it also provides several the authors’ references, which provides the reader with even more information about RSS.

Cliff, P. RSS - Sharing Online Content Metadata, Cultivate Interactive, issue 7, 11 July 2002URL: <http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/rss/>

Here is an article about RSS feeds and how they are so secure that they may prevent Phishing Scams before they happen.

http://www.silverpop.com/rssdirect/about_rssdirect/phishing.html