Comparing Blogging Platforms

05/25/2012 1 Comment

So when I think of blogging, I think of WordPress. The designers in my life (my wife and my best friend) both swear by it, though when I peak at their sites, they have their own domains and control them. Then again, they mainly use their sites as their online portfolio, meaning they match up far more with the idea of a “webpage” – static information to come back to later to see the same as before. Regardless, for people getting going on a blog, or even a site in general, I know they often recommend WordPress. One that I think may have been recommended from my wife and then through the grapevine to the writer: http://justflipthedog.com/ This WordPress blog is a good example of one that has grown and been taken over fully by the author to the point of now having book sales linked out, and other things, but starting from a simple WordPress. Read more of this post

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Introduction

05/24/2012 2 Comments

Whoa, glad I took a look at the class a bit harder before the weekend! I read that the blog needed to be started by Monday, posted on Monday, and I was assuming next Monday! Looks like I am running behind!
My name is David Cox and this is my blog for IST 600, Blogging for Information Professionals. I like to think that I am working as an information professional right now, as I work in retail banking as a manager. This requires a huge knowledge base, and an equally huge knowledge management apparatus. Of course, my co-workers tend to just ask me for the answers! It’s a good backup plan.
I’m about to go on vacation, so we’ll see how they do without me!
What I don’t get to do much of in my current line of work is writing, something I am passionate about. But when I say that to people, the response I tend to always get is: do you have a blog?
Well, no.
So I think I ought to get my mind wrapped around blogging, to understand it as a professional skill, and to contemplate it as a personal tool.
When I think of blogging as a professional tool, what do I think of? you ask. Well, in my early days of my MSLIS studies (I started summer ’09, going to school part time takes some time as I am finding out!), I came across the Ann Arbor Public Libraries site. Their library site is a blog. Simple, elegant, engaging. Something I feel like I would be happy to be involved in, and confident to present to an employer.
That’s a little about me. Time to move beyond the basics I have pulled together here, and go start learning a bit more about blogging!

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On Blogging

07/28/2009 2 Comments

So, in many respects I feel like I have done this before. And I don’t mean in the sense that I tried doing a fiction blog before, using WordPress. Instead, what I remember is, when I was studying abroad in England, I kept a LiveJournal, updating on my exploits and travels. In many respects, a blog is just the new face of LiveJournaling. So what’s different? There were comments, categories and sections and things if I remember right… What changed that made blogging explode? I can think of two main things, one technological and one more subtle. Read more of this post

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IST 601

07/20/2009 Leave a comment

My weekend in Syracuse was great! Any time you can spend two nearly eight hour days, on the weekend, in class, and not notice the time, is a success. Complicated sentence, basic sentiment. Read more of this post

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Some introduction

07/20/2009 1 Comment

I suppose I should probably introduce what’s going on here, for anyone who isn’t doing this all along with me. Read more of this post

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